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  • Type of initiative: Research, Training
  • SECTOR: Education

SDGs science for kids, edited by kids

Frontiers for Young Minds provides top-quality, free science to educate young people and engage them to protect tomorrow’s world. All articles are reviewed and edited by kids aged 8-15 to be fun to read for their peers.

In this unique article collection, partnered with KAUST and the UNDP, we present new science initiatives working towards achieving each SDG. Showcasing all 17 SDGs in one article each, kids can easily learn what the Goals are and how scientists are making them a reality.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals

  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Trade

Children’s Choice Awards

The IBC Children’s Choice Awards are an exciting shadowing scheme for our IBC Awards, where children act as judges, reading the shortlisted books and voting on their favourites. The scheme aims to engage children in fun reading activities that mirror the IBC Awards process. They have 5 weeks to read and judge the books.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 10 – Reduced inequalities
  • Type of initiative: Best practice, Industry standard
  • SECTOR: Academic

Image Type Taxonomy

STM have released a draft taxonomy to support accessible publishing, with a focus on helping authors and publishers write better image descriptions (alt text). Not only does it help prepare for the upcoming ADA Title II update (coming into effect April 2026), it also supports our shared goal of making scholarly content more inclusive and available to all.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 10 – Reduced inequalities
  • Type of initiative: Best practice, Training
  • SECTOR: Academic, Education, Other, Trade

Qualebook

Ebook technologies have reached a mature, stage, but digital production teams must coordinate diverse expertise to stay competitive while addressing accessibility, environmental impact, data protection, and interoperability. “The digital book quality reference list” – is a quality assurance framework created by and for the digital publishing industry, designed to support both day‑to‑day production and long‑term skills development across the publishing sector.

Relevant SDG’s

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

EDRLab Sustainability Report 2025

Since 2024, the European Digital Reading Lab has begun reporting its actions in terms of contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through its commitment to promoting open standards, enhancing accessibility, and developing the digital reading ecosystem.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 9 – Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureIPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
  • Type of initiative: Research
  • SECTOR: Academic

SDG Hub

As a signatory of the UN SDG Publishers Compact, IntechOpen is committed to accelerating progress toward the SDGs by promoting open access research and by implementing sustainable practices across the organisation. The SDG Hub is a centralised space showcasing our sustainability efforts, including publishing programmes, responsible practices and processes, climate action, and organisational initiatives.
The hub contributes to SDG 4 (Quality Education) and promotes action across all 17 SDGs.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality Education
  • Cat// Partnerships for the goals, Quality education
  • Type of initiative: Best practice, Industry standard, Tool
  • SECTOR: Academic, Education

Top Action Tips for Communicating Implications 2: Professionals and Practitioners

These Top Action Tips are a guide for academic authors on how to write plain language summaries or bullets tailored to professionals and practitioners, to support and promote necessary connections for sustainable development.

Relevant SDG’s

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

Bringing SDG Research Together: IOP Publishing’s Sustainability Collection

IOP Publishing’s Sustainability Collection is a dedicated hub for research aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It brings together research across disciplines—from climate science and clean energy to health and education. A user-friendly search tool lets you filter by SDG or publication year, helping to find high-quality research that supports global efforts to tackle environmental and societal challenges.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
  • Cat// Climate action, Responsible consumption and production
  • Type of initiative: Event, Training
  • SECTOR: Academic, Education

18th European Association for Science Editors (EASE) General Assembly and Conference

The 18th EASE General Assembly and Conference “Editing in the age of misinformation” hybrid (in-person and online) conference was in Oslo on 14–16 May 2025 and featured dynamic content comprising sessions, pre-conference workshops, and speakers from around the world. This a format for future conferences, since it helped reduce travel-related emissions. Further, conference related activities involved planting 194 trees via the EASE Global Forest initiative instead of distributing delegate gifts,

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 12 – Responsible consumption and productionIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Cat// Quality education, Responsible consumption and production
  • Type of initiative: Research, Tool
  • SECTOR: Academic

Sustainability Spotlight Statements

Since RSC Sustainability opened for submissions in 2022, the journal has required authors to submit a Sustainability Spotlight statement. This short summary, published alongside all articles, describes how the research contributes to sustainable progress and supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This helps reviewers assess the relevance of the article for a broad audience, while allowing readers to set the research in a broader context.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 12 – Responsible consumption and production
  • Cat// Quality education
  • Type of initiative: Other, Research, Training
  • SECTOR: Education

Teaching Assistant Professional Development special series in JMBE

To foster both quality education in college STEM classrooms with teaching assistants (TAs) as well as the career development and skills of TAs themselves, JMBE held a special call for papers on TA professional development, organized by senior editor Jeffrey Olimpo. The resulting article collection covers a variety of topics like TA program development, assessments, and mentoring, relevant in numerous educational communities and contexts globally, to ensure graduates have the knowledge they need.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality Education
  • Cat// Reduced inequalities
  • Type of initiative: Industry standard
  • SECTOR: Trade

ASM Journals enhances content accessibility through alternate text, table accessibility, and figure guidelines

American Society for Microbiology, with Kriyadocs, has enhanced its published content to serve a diverse global audience by incorporating alternate text (alt-text) for figures and implementing new table and figure standards for an accessible, inclusive reader experience.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 10 – Reduced inequalities
  • Cat// Quality education, Reduced inequalities
  • Type of initiative: Other
  • SECTOR: Other

APACE (Accelerating Publishing Accessibility through Collaboration in Europe)

APACE (Accelerating Publishing Accessibility through Collaboration in Europe) is a network promoting inclusion for 100M+ print-impaired people in Europe by connecting publishers and accessibility organizations. It builds industry capacity via training, a Summer School, networking, awareness events, and pilot projects, aligned with the EU Accessibility Act. Results (guidelines, best practices, whitepapers) will be shared through the European Accessibility Directory.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 10 – Reduced inequalities
  • Cat// Climate action, Quality education
  • Type of initiative: Research
  • SECTOR: Education

Planet Prize-winning science for kids, edited by kids

Frontiers for Young Minds provides top-quality, free science to educate young people and engage them to protect tomorrow’s world. All articles are reviewed and edited by kids aged 8-15 to be fun to read for their peers.
This second volume showcases winners of the Frontiers Planet Prize 2024, working towards solutions to prevent us from crossing the nine planetary boundaries, for a healthy future on a healthy planet. From biodiversity drivers to freshwater conservation, let them motivate you!

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Cat// Climate action, Quality education
  • Type of initiative: Research
  • SECTOR: Education

Award-winning planetary solutions science for kids, edited by kids

Frontiers for Young Minds provides top-quality, free science to educate young people and engage them to protect tomorrow’s world. All articles are reviewed and edited by kids aged 8-15 to be fun to read for their peers.
In this first volume of the Frontiers Planet Prize, we showcase the winning international research towards solutions to prevent our planet from crossing the nine planetary boundaries, and help to save our ecosystem – from forest regrowth to human dietary changes, get inspired!

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Cat// Climate action, Quality education
  • Type of initiative: Research
  • SECTOR: Education

IPCC climate science for kids, edited by kids

Frontiers for Young Minds provides top-quality, free science to educate young people and engage them to protect tomorrow’s world. All articles are reviewed and edited by kids aged 8-15 to be fun to read for their peers.

In this second-volume Collection by IPCC researchers, explore the latest predictions and recommendations from the last IPCC Report on: how and why our climate is changing, how climate change is impacting our world and people everywhere, and what we can do to help stop it.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Cat// Climate action, No poverty
  • Type of initiative: Research
  • SECTOR: Academic

Sustainable Development Goals at Sage

These microsites serve as a jumping off point for SDG resources to identify key information, data, authors, and journals publishing on these topics. The microsites include a range of journal articles, special collections, books, business cases, and podcasts that reflect Sage’s dedication to making an impact both inside and outside of academia.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 1 – No povertyIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Cat// Partnerships for the goals, Reduced inequalities
  • Type of initiative: Other
  • SECTOR: Academic

Global Social Challenges Journal

Global Social Challenges Journal responds directly to the SDGs, encompassing co-production and engaging with innovative and critical perspectives, including decolonial and southern epistemologies and their relationship with those of the Global North. By publishing Open Access evidence-based, collaborative work in the collective interest through a non-profit university press, the journal enables the sharing of knowledge needed to build a fairer world, across and for the Global South and North.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 10 – Reduced inequalitiesIPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
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