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The Sustainable Development Goals Programme

Delivering real progress against urgent societal needs

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´'s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Programme connects researchers who are tackling the world’s toughest challenges with practitioners in policy and business who need those insights to achieve their goals in improving the world, by making our publishing activities more visible to our key communities through a variety of channels.

Report: From publications to policy

A new ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ report, titled From publications to policy: the impact of research towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, explores how SDG research is cited in policy. 

It draws on more than 19 million policy documents, and offers a new perspective on the relationship between science and real-world decision-making. 

Published in cooperation with Overton.

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> Read the blogs How SDG research drives policy: A special report

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> Watch the recording of the webinar:

Innovating to support the SDGs

We bring together research and other communities of people who are striving to solve grand challenges, in partnerships and new ways of collaborating. Learn more about our events and initiatives

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Research Communities

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Research Communities, one of which is the Sustainability Research Community, support our SDG Programme. Read recently published articles and thoughts from researchers working to solve the world's grand challenges. 

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´â€™s sustainability reporting

Science for a Sustainable Future Event Series

Science for a Sustainable Future 2025, held in cooperation with the UN Sustainable Development Network, focused on the question: ‘What is needed to make the SDGs happen by 2030?’

Session 1: Impacting SDG Policy: The role of science and research in driving sustainable change

Session 2: 10 years of 'A World thart Counts': Where has the data revolution taken us in global education?

> Find out more: Read the summary blog, download the policy briefs and watch the recordings of the events 

Highlighted book series and journals

Examining researcher attitudes to societal impact

In partnership with The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), we surveyed researchers globally to understand how they approach funding and communicating research, as well as how they measure societal and academic impact. Here the data is shared according to each SDG focus. Learn more about the overall project here.

Click on any SDG below to download its unique infographic and explore findings related to each profile 

Based on a survey of over 9000 researchers, this collection of infographics presents global researcher attitudes to societal impact. (view raw data ).

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