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  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Academic

Tree Planting for Celebration and Connection

In 2024, PUP’s European office celebrated its 25th year, and to mark the occasion they worked with the European Festivals Forest to plant 25 trees for 25 years – 25 silver birches. In 2021 PUP partnered with EarthDay.org and Canopy Project to donate a tree for planting for every book purchased in the days leading up to Earth Day. During the pandemic PUP also distributed wildflower seeds to staff to plant in their own gardens as a way of reconnecting to both our planet and each other.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate actionIPA SDG – Goal No 15 – Life on land

  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Trade

Banned on the Run

Voluntary 5k for employee participation, to respond to book bans and benefiting the Freedom To Read Foundation, a nonprofit legal and educational organization devised to protect and defend the First Amendment to the US Constitution and to support the rights of both libraries and citizens to access information. Within 12 hours of registration opening Monday (March 24, 2025), Penguin Random House and Sourcebooks employees had raised more than $10,000 for the Freedom To Read Foundation.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 16 – Peace, justice and strong institutions
  • Type of initiative: Event, Tool
  • SECTOR: Academic

SDG Talks

The Springer Nature SDG Talk series is a forum for discussion of issues, progress and opportunities relating to research in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Talks provide space for exploration of research that could be used to implement solutions to global challenges, and for connecting this with audiences within and beyond academia.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
  • Type of initiative: Event, Report
  • SECTOR: Academic

Science for a Sustainable Future

Science for a Sustainable Future (SFSF) is a joint initiative of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) and Springer Nature. Now in its fifth year, this annual event brings together policymakers, government representatives, UN officials and leading global scientists to discuss and advance the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
  • Type of initiative: Event, Research
  • SECTOR: Academic

SDG3 Awareness Days Working Group

A dedicated cross-organisation working group that focuses on promoting research and content across the Springer Nature portfolio for specific awareness days relating to SDG 3. In 2024, they promoted 10 awareness days including World Cancer Day, World Refugee Day and World Suicide Prevention Day.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 3 – Good Health and well-being
  • Type of initiative: Best practice, Event, Other, Repor, Training
  • SECTOR: Academic

Springer Nature UN Women Partnership

We have established a partnership between Springer Nature, our SDG 5 working group and UN Women to promote dialog between researchers and policy makers. As part of the partnership, Springer Nature signed the UN Women Media Compact, hosted a UN Women representative in our NYC office for International Women’s Day, hosted panel discussion as part of our Breaking Barriers conference facilitated by UN Women and have been running further collaborative initiatives that bridge science and policy.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 5 – Gender EqualityIPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Academic

Breaking Barriers for Gender and Health Equity Through Research

In 2022 we launched a conference series aimed at exploring how research and science can support the SDG 5, its targets and its intersection with other SDGs, including SDG 3 and SDG 10. The second conference took place in September 2024 and focused on gender and health equity. The conferences convene key stakeholders from academia, industry, government and policy sectors, facilitate knowledge exchange and the breaking of silos, and promote cooperation for the goals.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 3 – Good Health and well-beingIPA SDG – Goal No 5 – Gender Equality
  • Type of initiative: Event, Report
  • SECTOR: Academic

Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Summit

The Sustainable Development in LA&C Summit brings together actors from diverse backgrounds involved with the SDGs. This event provides a platform to disseminate their work internationally and promotes synergies between our regional community aiming at advancing the 2030 agenda. Across the last three editions we were able to cover a multitude of subjects from ecosystem conservation to quality education, health and well being to sustainable cities, from climate change to just energy transition.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 7 – ffordable and Clean Energy
  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Education

World Read Aloud Day 2025 Readathon

Participating Ambassador Schools have submitted 5 minute videos of selected children reading aloud from SDG themed texts for 3 minutes followed by a 2 minute explanation of the relevance of the text to 1 or more SDGs.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
  • Type of initiative: Best practice, Event
  • SECTOR: Trade

GÜNIŞIĞI KİTAPLIĞI BOOK DONATIONS TO EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS

After the major earthquakes that took place in the Southeastern Region of Turkey on February 6, 2023, Günışığı Kitaplığı took immediate action to support children and young survivors in the region. In addition to making financial donations, Günışığı Kitaplığı, donated 50,000 books to be distributed in collaboration with major NGO’s and public authorities to the students who try continuing their education in containers and/or tent cities in the region.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 3 – Good Health and well-beingIPA SDG – Goal No 10 – Reduced inequalities
  • Type of initiative: Best practice, Event, Training
  • SECTOR: Trade

Short Story Competition for Young Adults

Organised by Günışığı Kitaplığı annualy since 2011 this competition is open to middle school students from all over Turkey. Every year a different theme is selected for the stories to be written, some of which are SDG related such as “Love of Nature”. Award winning and short listed stories are compiled as a book and distributed to all schools and libraries free of charge. Encouraging children to express themselves in writing, this competition develops their written communication skills.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Type of initiative: Event, Training
  • SECTOR: Trade

Mine Sosyal Seminars on Literature, Publishing and Reading Culture

Seminars prepared and given by Mine Soysal, founding manager of Günışığı Kitaplığı, and the author of Eyvah Kitap! (Oh No Books!), a long-best seller which has reached hundreds of thousands of readers of all ages. The content can be customized according to target audience being mainly educators and/or parents. Besides theoretical background, seminar covers case discussions on interesting topics with the purpose of giving insight to adults for understanding the needs of child readers.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 10 – Reduced inequalities
  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Trade

Annual Publishing Conference

The sectoral conference, organized by Günışığı Kitaplığı as a social responsibility project since 2011 is supported also by the Turkish Publishers Association. Bringing together all the stakeholders of the publishing industry with new agendas every year, this conference plays an important role in the development of our publishing sector to international standards. The program of the 2022 conference was designed to focus on “Climate Crisis and Publishing Sector” and supported by UNDP Türkiye as well.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 9 – Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Trade

“Literature in Education” Teacher Training Seminars

Annual, free of charge, teacher training seminars organised by Günışığı Kitaplığı since 2010 hosted authors, academicians and experts from related fields as speakers. Discussing the use of literature books in classrooms through “creative reading practices”, every year four such practices are also being presented by teachers. A climate action related topic is also included in each seminar program to furnish the educators with necessary and correct discussion tools with their students.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Type of initiative: Best practice, Event, Industry standard
  • SECTOR: Academic

Writing for non-academic audiences – SDG Fellows Interactive workshop

This practical, hands-on workshop convened by the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative SDG Publishers Compact Fellows, the Open Climate Campaign, and OpenPharma explored how to make research more accessible to non-academic audiences. It included practical advice and a worked example for researchers of how to write for non-expert readers, sharing the practical implications of their work in plain language.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Academic

Emerald Publishing’s ‘Data Dan’ runs an ultra-marathon every day for the BookTrust

Daniel Molesworth, Director of Data at Emerald Publishing, ran an ultra-marathon each day for five days smashing his fundraising target for BookTrust – a UK-wide early literacy non-profit that increases book access, choice, and ownership for thousands of children.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Academic

Research4Life unites partners for recommitment to research equity and SDGs

At an event held during the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) Reception in October, Research4Life gathered key publishing leaders to recommit to its mission of building an inclusive, diverse, and equitable scholarly environment. The event highlighted the critical role of publishers in closing global knowledge gaps and advancing the SDGs, serving as a renewed call for publishers to join the mission and support its sustainability.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Other

“Right to Read” Conference

WIPO hosted “Right to Read” Conference on the topic of the Marrakesh Treaty and the Accessible Books Consortium in Sydney, Australia for representatives of government and blindness associations from the Pacific Islands. Ms. Maryanne Diamond, a key negotiator on behalf of the World Blind Union in Morocco, where the Marrakesh Treaty was adopted in 2013 gave the keynote address on the first day.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 10 – Reduced inequalities
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