The 2030 Agenda and the SDGs

Official declaration of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. Its aim is to balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, the social and the environmental.

Final United Nations ruling in Spanish approving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) take over from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), in effect until 2015. fins al 2015.

Report of the Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (CADS), an advisory body of the Executive Council of the Government of Catalonia, to identify the strategic challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Catalan context. An objective goal-based diagnosis.

This document takes an in-depth look at the four areas where universities can contribute to sustainable development (learning and teaching, research, external leadership and governance) in relation to each of the goals.

Statement approved in 2016 by the International Association of Universities (IAU) in Iquitos (Peru), whereby its members undertake to create synergies and cooperate in the name of sustainable development in higher education.

Article by Goolam Mohamedbhai, former president of the International Association of Universities (IAU), published in University World News. A retrospective look at the concept of education for sustainable development.

This book is a call for dialogue. To take the path towards a sustainable future in a complex and changing world, people have to become change agents. This way, education becomes a catalyst, an asset that needs collective social effort.

Roadmap endorsed by the UNESCO General Conference with regard to the Global Action Programme (GAP) for education for sustainable development. It describes the goal, the objectives and the implementation strategies, among others.

Issue of International Association of Universities' (IAU) journal Horizons devoted to the role of education in sustainable development. Around twenty articles on subjects such as promoting policies, leadership and management, curricular reform and research.

Results of the first global survey in 2016 on the role of higher education in promoting sustainable development. The aim is to research and analyse the approaches of International Association of Universities (IAU) members in this area.

Throughout the European Sustainable Development Week (ESDW), experts from the UOC have explained each of the SDGs on social media. They've given us their personal take on what each of these goals involves and the importance of achieving them.

The IAU SDG3 cluster on Health and Wellbeing, Universities for Good Health, is an open network of higher education institutions spanning five continents, spearheaded by the UOC’s eHealth Center in Barcelona. 

2019 is going to be a great year for the IFLA and the work it carries out regarding the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year’s points of focus are SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and SDG 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, which includes access to information), so there will be plenty of opportunities to highlight the importance of libraries as development partners.

LMW is a map of SDG activities, projects and programmes at libraries around the world. You can filter the initiatives by country or sustainable development goal.

This first European report looks to analyse the work at libraries to promote the 2030 Agenda's sustainable development goals. It includes examples of policies and projects from libraries that form part of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA).

Recordings of a series of webinars that focused on how and why libraries should implement the SDGs.