Bringing Classics to the State Schools of the Midlands: A Year in the Life of the WCN

The Warwick Classics Network (WCN) was created in July 2018 with funding from the Warwick Widening Participation Development Fund and the Warwick Impact Fund. Further funding from Widening Participation (WP) and the charity Classics for All secured the continuation of the position of Research Fellow in Outreach and Impact for the Dept. of Classics and Ancient History, a role given to Dr Paul Grigsby; WP funding was also used to cover the expenses of events such as our 2nd July 2018 WCN Launch event and the 2019 Warwick Ancient Drama Festival. For the period April 2019-April 2020 the WCN received further funding from WP, Classics for All, and the A. G. Leventis Foundation, and this report will detail the activities that this funding supported.

Launch event for SDGs review held at UN in New York

The International Council for Science (ICSU), in partnership with the International Social Science Council (ISSC), organized an event during the second intergovernmental negotiations session on the Post-2015 Development Agenda at the United Nations in New York on 17-20 February 2015. At the event, ICSU launched the "Review of Targets for the Sustainable Development Goals: The Science Perspective" [1], an independent scientific review of the Sustainable Development Goals targets by over 40 scientists to assist in their consolidation and support their effective implementation and monitoring. The event brought together a wide range of stakeholders, government delegates and UN staff: about 70 people in all.