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SDG tag: Sustainability

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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: 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// Climate action, Responsible consumption and production
  • Type of initiative: Best practice, Report
  • SECTOR: Academic

European Association for Science Editors’ (EASE) Sustainability Initiatives – Greener Conferences: EASEing into Sustainability

Since establishing its Environment & Sustainability (E&S) Committee in 2021, the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) has aligned its activities with key UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The poster “Greener Conferences: EASE-ing into Sustainability” outlines the Association’s practical measures for reducing environmental impact and enhancing equity at its events.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 12 – Responsible consumption and productionIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Cat// Partnerships for the goals, Quality education
  • Type of initiative: Report
  • SECTOR: Academic

Beyond 2030 Report: The Role of Science, Technology and Innovation in Achieving the SDGs

Beyond 2030 is based on high-level interviews with the United Nations 10-Member Group on STI for SDGs and reviews the framework’s achievements to date and provides critical guidance on how the SDGs can continue to foster global cooperation and support SDG-aligned research. It also presents a bold vision for how the SDG framework should evolve post-2030.

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// Climate action, Partnerships for the goals
  • Type of initiative: Report
  • SECTOR: Academic

From publications to policy: the impact of research towards achieving the SDGs

A new report from Springer Nature, in partnership with Overton, offers the most comprehensive picture yet of how academic research is influencing real-world policy tied to the SDGs. Published during COP30, the analysis is the first of its kind, drawing on more than 12 million policy documents. It finds that SDG policy documents seem to cite more research than non-SDG policy, signaling a connection between science and action on global challenges such as health, climate, and social development.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate actionIPA SDG – Goal No 17 – Partnerships for the Goals
  • Cat// Life on land, Zero hunger
  • Type of initiative: Tool
  • SECTOR: Academic

SDGenie (beta) – a new research tool

SDGenie (beta) is a new, prototype tool that explores how text, such as research abstracts, can be matched to specific targets set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDGenie (beta) is free to use and offers researchers a new way to identify detailed targets – rather than goals alone – and, therefore, to make their work more relevant to the SDGs. There are 169 targets, which define actionable priorities. Together with indicators, they help to measure progress.

Relevant SDG’s

Zero hungerIPA SDG – Goal No 15 – Life on land
  • Cat// Climate action, Zero hunger
  • Type of initiative: Research
  • SECTOR: Academic, Other

Agricultural Biotechnology special series in Applied and Environmental Microbiology Journal

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) calls for papers in a Special Series on Agricultural Biotechnology, including cutting-edge research on microbial innovations contributing to fundamental, translational progress toward sustainability. AEM invites researchers worldwide to submit work on diverse agricultural scales, systems, and practices, from temperate and tropical cropping systems to arid and high-altitude environments and from smallholder farms to industrial-scale operations.

Relevant SDG’s

Zero hungerIPA 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, Responsible consumption and production
  • Type of initiative: Event
  • SECTOR: Other

Microbiology and the UN Sustainable Development Goals mini-symposium at ASM Microbe 2025 conference

At Microbe 2025, a dedicated mini-symposium was held to discuss how microbiologists and microbes can further the SDGs. Expert panels held conversations about microbiology as a roadmap for progress, through the use of microbes to mitigate climate effects, generate renewable energy solutions, and advance the bioeconomy, and discussed the crucial role of education both as its own target and as a core part of achieving all of the goals.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 4 – Quality EducationIPA SDG – Goal No 12 – Responsible consumption and production
  • Cat// Sustainable cities and communities
  • Type of initiative: Report
  • SECTOR: Academic

mSphere Meeting Highlight on Microbiome-Integrated Urban Design

In a Meeting Highlight, Richard Beckett et al. discuss top-ranked priority research questions resulting from the Probiotic Cities Working Group’s global interdisciplinary workshop, as well as their broader implications for microbiome science, urban health, and sustainable development. By focusing on these priorities, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners can foster a transformative agenda to integrate microbiomes into urban design, advancing resilient and equitable cities for the future.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Cat// Affordable and clean energy, Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Type of initiative: Report
  • SECTOR: Academic

Advancing Global Innovation: The Netherlands–Japan Science and Technology Partnership highlighting SDG impact

The Netherlands–Japan research partnership drives high-impact science and innovation, excelling in public-private collaboration and strategic technologies like quantum and photonics. By advancing health, industry, and innovation, it supports SDGs 3, 9, and 17, showing how international collaboration accelerates sustainable development and global knowledge sharing.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 7 – ffordable and Clean EnergyIPA SDG – Goal No 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Cat// Affordable and clean energy, Climate action
  • Type of initiative: Other
  • SECTOR: Academic

2025 Renewable Transformation Challenge

The Renewable Transformation Challenge, launched in 2017, aims to honor and showcase outstanding work that actively supports the transformation to a world powered by renewable energy and has potential to widen access to energy, particularly in developing countries. Over 152 entries were received which were scored in terms of applicability, impact, sustainability and scalability with the winner of the €20,000 prize awarded to Agrisol, enabling rural agriculture powered by solar energy.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 7 – ffordable and Clean EnergyIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
  • Cat// Climate action, Responsible consumption and production
  • Type of initiative: Report
  • SECTOR: Academic

Progress on Climate Action at Elsevier

In 2024, Elsevier cut direct emissions by 83% (since 2018) and saw 86% of top suppliers disclose CO₂ data, covering 94% of eligible spend. New titles like Cell Reports Sustainability and biodiversity analytics reinforced its role in climate research, while conferences adopted carbon footprint tracking. Through the Elsevier Foundation, programs like the Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge advanced SDG 13, showcasing Elsevier’s leadership in climate action.

Relevant SDG’s

IPA SDG – Goal No 12 – Responsible consumption and productionIPA SDG – Goal No 13 – Climate action
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