  The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is an R&D project to
plan and design the next observatory to detect gamma rays in the Southern
hemisphere. The experiment, planned to be placed at an altitude greater than
4400 m, is primarily based on water Cherenkov detectors units and is expected
to measure gamma rays from a few hundred GeV up to the PeV scale. SWGO will
complement CTA and the existing ground-based particle detectors of the Northern
Hemisphere, namely HAWC and LHAASO, having a rich science programme. The
collaboration is highly invested in evaluating different detector and array
configurations, prototyping, and site search. In this presentation, I shall
present an overview of the project's activities, achievements and future plans.
