United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Mapping SDG Research and Activities

The mission of the Aurora-network is to tackle global societal challenges in areas like the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. This project creates a dashboard which demonstrates the Societal Relevance and Societal Impact of Research of Aurora Universities. This dashboard shows the research contributions in these societal challenges, and how policymakers have used the research available to tackle these challenges

This repository contains machine readable (xml) search queries (crafted from a controlled vocabulary), for the Scopus publication database, to find domain specific research output that are related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We invite enyone to improve the SDG queries further in a co-creation process.

This app evaluated all CMU course descriptions from Fall 2022 provided by the Registrar. Each course was weighted equally and mapped to all relevant Sustainable Development Goals. Courses like internships, research, and seminars that do not include information about course topics covered are mapped to Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals. This is an automatic system based on a set of keywords and it has not been confirmed by instructors.

A set of controlled terms that define the scope and breadth of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as defined by the United Nations. These terms may be used to tag and index textual records in accordance with SDGs.

This report highlights the growth in research around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We believe the SDGs are now more relevant than ever, for they provide a framework for recovery from the current pandemic. In the report we ask, if we are to have an impact agenda for research, should it not be one that is informed by the SDGs? And if so, should we not be actively measuring sustainable development as part of research evaluation?

Help us qualify relevance based on a given publication’s relationship to the SDG indicators, which were developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs) as a way of showing progress towards a target.

The SDG Research Mapping Initiative was established as a partnership between the University of Southern Denmark, the Aurora (represented by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), the University of Auckland and Elsevier to bring together broad expertise and share best practices. Working with the partners to gain consensus on mapped publications, the Elsevier Data Science team has established a system to crowdsource a knowledge base of publications related to the SDGs together with the research community.

The STRINGS project is mapping development pathways for science, technology and innovation that best address the UN Sustainable Development Goals. A consortium of seven leading universities, research centers and the UNDP are working together to better understand the ways in which science, technologyand innovation contribute, or not, to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Low and Middle Income Countries. The project will develop an integrative framework to map the complex relations between research in science, technology and innovation (STI) on the one hand, and the SDGs on the other.

The Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings measure the contribution of universities to the SDGs, including research, teaching, and community outreach. The University of Auckland was ranked first in the world in 2019 and again in 2020. To gain a better understanding of our research contribution, the University of Auckland SDG Keywords Dictionary Project seeks to build on the processes developed by the United Nations and THE in order to create an expanded list of keywords that can be used to identify SDG-relevant research.