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UN Sustainable Development Goals at Innovation and Design Engineering

UN Sustainable Development Goals at Innovation and Design Engineering

Our input to the SDGs will by the nature of our work and approaches be supportive more than directly focused on delivering complete solutions. That said, the section is committed to engaging with the goals, in several, interrelated manners

The section works primarily with issues surrounding the processes through which new innovations come to be, as well as the manner in which products are developed and refined through design, the input this section has to the SDGs will be supportive rather than directly focused on delivering complete solutions. We do, of course, take into consideration how we can contribute to resolve the problems addressed by the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Research, partnerships and students' work support SDG goals

Good Health

Our research focuses on how innovation can improve e.g. illness treatments in hospitals or rehabilitation of patients. In this way, we support SDG #3.

Quality Education

At SDU Innovation and Design Engineering the programmes taught at the section, particularly PDI, are being refashioned in a way which takes the SDGs into account on all levels. Students will be given ample opportunity to engage with the goals through project work, and the teaching will incorporate these. The section is also developing the field of technology ethics as a differentiator in teaching. These efforts are all supporting SDG #4.

Responsible Consumption

Research conducted at the section will be aligned with the SDGs where suitable, and the section is already engaged in several research projects that have direct bearing on this. As an example, researchers at the section are working on issues such as inclusive innovation, which addresses the manner in which the goals can be integrated more broadly into the innovation discourse, and value-sensitive design, which aims to ensure that ethical values such as those illustrated through the SDGs are included in the design process and in this way contribute to SDG #12.

Partnerships for the Goals

Our section is actively looking for collaboration partners that either themselves work directly with the SDGs, or who have an interest in the topics outlined above on a more general level, thus supporting SDG #17.

For more information please contact Head of Section Alf Mikael Rehn

Last Updated 14.12.2022