Introduction

This page provides substantial evidence about the actions taken by the University of Patras for the impact of its sustainable operation. The public summary of all actions that University undertakes can be found at the official website of the University, see https://www.upatras.gr/en/university/sustainability/. 

Two institutional documents are useful to the reader (unfortunately, only in Greek):

"Sustainable University of Patras in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals" is the main document that shows the strategic directions of the University of Patras in regards to the UN SDGs.

"Sustainable operation & development : our way in 2023 towards the sustainable development goals" is the document reporting on how the University of Patras addresses each one of the 17 UN SDGs.

The following information is structured according to the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings indicators list and information and data will be compliled in steps. While this page reports activities for the year 2023, it might be the case that several activities remain active and valid since earlier years.

The graph above shows the published work of our researchers in 2023 in each SDG, along with the citations they have received (source: SciVal). Citations reflect one aspect of the impact of these publications, but they are not the only metric. Looking at other metrics, such as the Field Weighted Citation Impact, an indicator that explores the impact of a work in its specific field and therefore in its own context, can show us how much more influential it is compared to others, reveals very interesting data. For example, although the index of publications on Goals 1, 2 and 5 seems low, the FCWI is the highest. In practice, this means that publications on Goals 1-Zero Poverty, 2-Zero Hunger and 5-Gender Equality had a very high impact, see 1 with 3.32, 2 with 3.37 and 5 with 9.71.