All topics
Every Goal Seventeen explainer, grouped by theme. Each one is a self-contained introduction with links to its primary sources.
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Research infrastructures
- The Square Kilometre Array: how a telescope on two continents is built and run
What the SKA Observatory is, where its telescopes are, and why radio astronomy needs an intergovernmental treaty.
- LifeWatch ERIC: Europe's e-infrastructure for biodiversity research
How a European Research Infrastructure Consortium serves biodiversity and ecosystem science, and which SDGs it touches.
- How space technology supports the Sustainable Development Goals
Earth observation, satellite navigation and communications, and the UN framework that governs them.
Health and data
- Health data and the SDGs: what gets measured, and how
Civil registration, surveys, routine health information systems and the indicators behind SDG 3.
- GDPR and health research: the rules researchers actually work with
Legal bases, special category data, safeguards for research and international transfers.
- Genomics in public health: a plain guide
Pathogen surveillance, rare disease diagnosis, newborn screening and the equity questions WHO has raised.
- Childhood cancer in Africa: the survival gap and what research can change
Why cure rates differ so widely, and the priorities set by the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer.
Inclusion and rights
- Assistive technology at work: the state of the art for employment
From screen readers to workplace adjustments, and the legal duties behind them.
- Women and inclusive innovation: what the data show
Women's share of researchers and inventors, and why it matters for the goals.
- SDG 16.9: legal identity for all, and the role of digital ID
Birth registration, identity systems and the safeguards they need.
- The right to privacy at the United Nations: texts and mechanisms
From Article 12 of the Universal Declaration to the Special Rapporteur on privacy.
Cooperation and skills
- How the EU and the UN work together on the SDGs
The EU's status at the UN, its development policy framework and its SDG reporting.
- Research and innovation in agri-food systems
Why food systems research is central to SDG 2, and how it is organised internationally.
- Digital and high-tech skills for the SDGs
How ICT skills are measured under SDG 4.4, and the frameworks used to build them.