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:
Persons / Researchers
English-language text resources of Person data entries in the CRIS database that are automatically used to generate the SDG buttons if they contain keywords assigned to one or more SDGs:
- all research information created under “Curriculum and research description” as “Profile information” in English in the fields marked with a British flag;
- all research information entered under “Keywords” and there in the fields marked with a British flag (under the “Translation” tab).
Remark: You can manually delete automatically generated SDGs from your personal CRIS database entry at any time under “Keywords → Sustainable Development Goals” or, conversely, add automatically non-generated SDGs. When doing so, always observe the DSHS Regulations for ensuring good scientific practice (see above).
Organisations / Research units
English-language text resources that are automatically used to generate SDG buttons in case of CRIS database entries of Research units if they contain keywords that are assigned to one or more SDGs:
- all relevant research information (see Persons/Researchers) that is created in the CRIS database entries of persons whose owners are assigned to the Research unit in question;
- all relevant research information (see Publications) contained in Publication CRIS database entries for which the Research unit in question is the affiliation and/or managing organisational unit;
- all relevant research information (see Projects) contained in Project CRIS database entries for which the Research unit in question is the affiliation and/or managing organisational unit.
Publications
English-language text resources of Publication data entries in the CRIS database that are automatically used to generate the SDG buttons if they contain keywords assigned to one or more SDGs:
- Title,
- Abstract,
- Keywords.
Remarks:
- In addition to the title, ensure that the data entries of your Publications have an abstract and the keywords in English.
- In the case of German-language publications, provide the title, abstract and keywords in English under the “Translation” tab.
Projects
English-language text resources of Project data entries in the CRIS database that are automatically used to generate the SDG buttons if they contain keywords assigned to one or more SDGs:
- Project title,
- Project description,
- all relevant English-language text resources of the following data entries linked to the project in its CRIS database entry:
- Persons/Researchers who are linked to this project,
- Publications arising from this project,
- Projects related to this research project.
