SDG buttons
For optimal use of the SDG buttons in database and research portal
The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations in the CRIS
In 2015, 193 UN member states agreed on 17 global goals for sustainable development to fight poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all: the UN Sustainable Development Goals, or shortly SDGs.
The feature of SDG buttons enables the assignment of research information resp. research achievements to one or more of these global UN goals for sustainable development. For the visualisation of the UN SDGs, the CRIS database and CRIS portal draw on the original icons of the 17 goals created by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs.
With the help of this feature, researchers and research units have the opportunity to visually present the contribution of their research to sustainability in the CRIS portal. Currently, SDGs can be assigned to a total of four data types:
- Persons (CRIS database) resp. Researchers (CRIS portal);
- Organisations (CRIS database) resp. Research units (CRIS portal);
- Publications;
- Projects.
On the one hand, this assignment can be made manually in the respective mask under “Keywords → Sustainable Development Goals” by linking the respective CRIS database entry with one or more SDGs.
We ask you to handle the manual assignment of SDGs to your research profile, publications and projects responsibly. Please always check carefully whether the respective SDG(s) match your profile, publications or projects.
On the other hand, the assignment of SDGs is done automatically via a thesaurus, but only for the data types Persons/Researchers and Publications. For this purpose, the CRIS database and CRIS portal make use of English-language text resources resp. the SDG keywords contained therein that are assigned to the individual SDGs. An overview of the individual SDGs and the topics and keywords assigned to each SDG can be found here.
In addition, the DSHS Commission for Sustainable Development provides an overview of the individual SDGs and their respective reference to sport, see here. Among others, the Commission draws on information from the campaign „Ziele brauchen Taten“ (goals need action) of the Regional Network for Sustainability Strategies West (RENN.west) of the German federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland.
Please remember that only those CRIS database entries whose relevant text resources are available in English will be considered for the automatic generation of SDGs and their visualisation in the CRIS portal.
For each of the four data types, explore below the relevant English-language text resources in CRIS database entries in which the respective SDG keywords must be located so that this feature automatically links the respective data entry to one or more SDGs. (However, at the present, this function is limited to Persons/Researchers and Publications.)
Data types to which SDGs can be assigned:
