KI Strategy 2030 links our engagement with UN Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals to quality:

The quality of our work is enhanced by the wealth of perspectives we gain through international collaboration. The global university also takes into account the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These goals concern us all and show us that health must be viewed in a broad context, not least within our educational programmes.

(Ole Petter Ottersen, KI Strategy 2030, p. 5).

KI Strategy 2030 outlines KI's vision for how we should engage with UN Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Specifically, KI Strategy 2030 describes the ways in which KI intends to integrate the SDGs not only its research, but also its education and support services:

The necessity of looking ahead to 2030: The time horizon 2019-2030 was chosen with great care. Many of the challenges and opportunities facing our university and society at large become more apparent when considered over a longer time perspective. Research has a long time horizon, and changes we make today in our educational programmes will have their greatest impact on society in a decade or more. The time horizon also coincides with the United Nations’ Agenda 2030. It is incumbent on us as a university to help realise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but we should also allow ourselves to be inspired by them. The SDGs view medicine and health in the broadest of contexts. If we are to achieve our vision of better health for all, we must do the same.

(KI Strategy 2030, p. 6).

We should all strive to work with the SDGs in whatever capacity we hold at KI, allowing them to pervade our ways of thinking and seeing our present and our future.

KI and SDGs

Watch the video below which illustrates KI's contribution to the SDGs.

Get ready to start your journey by moving on to the next section. Good luck!