Harnessing Open Science to Address Global Issues: Open Science and SDGS

The world has faced and continues to face a multitude of crises, enhanced by the current pandemic. As COVID-19 took hold around the globe, it underscored how science must be in the conversation to tackle these crises on an immediate, collaborative, and interconnected scale. This conversation can no longer just be 'academic' but one with a much higher social consciousness attached to it. The discussions surrounding Open Science (OS) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals are central to the intersection of social consciousness and science. Where OS policies can promote unhindered global sharing of knowledge, those surrounding SDGs can guide science towards impact. This session, featuring speakers from Cabells, Springer Nature, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), addresses ways that the scientific community and journalism can drive change and wider societal outreach through open science policies and by embracing SDGs as a key topic in research impact. It addresses case studies around the current state of open science, open science policy, and the practical ways that open science is impacting the SDG program. It also explores and demonstrates a method for operationalizing SDG-mindedness as a tool for measuring both research impact and potential. || Speakers: Laura Helmuth; Rachel J. Scheer; David Steingard; Lucas Toutloff; Paul Perrin