SDG 16 aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels. This not only involves ensuring public access to information and protecting fundamental freedoms, but also strengthening relevant national institutions, including through international cooperation.

Overview, targets and indicators of SDG 16

Forschungszentrum Jülich is helping to achieve SDG 16 by establishing collaborations in the science diplomacy context, which facilitate multithematic and systematic partnerships in emerging and developing countries.

Peace can only be achieved if we all work together in a way that fosters mutual understanding and encourages the sharing of knowledge and resources.

Science Bridges are collaborations between Forschungszentrum Jülich and partner networks in emerging and developing countries, covering joint research projects, educational programmes, and projects for knowledge and technology transfer. Alumni, particularly former doctoral researchers and postdocs, play a key role as they continue and consolidate the scientific work in the countries. In addition, they are ambassadors for Forschungszentrum Jülich and the participating universities.

Jülich is currently involved in two Science Bridges that support sustainable scientific collaboration and multithematic projects.

“The very successful GGSB is a long-term, scientific, bottom-up collaboration between Georgian universities and German research institutions involving joint pioneering research in Germany, the education of Georgian students, and the transfer of technology to Georgia,” say Prof. Hans Ströher and Prof. N. Jon Shah, both from the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine – Physics of Medical Imaging (INM-4), as well as Dr. Andro Kacharava from the Nuclear Physics Institute – Experimental Hadron Dynamics (IKP-2), contacts for the Georgian-German Science Bridge.

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Focus

Strategic Partnerships

Strategic partnerships from research collaborations benefit both parties. Engaging with other research cultures can unlock fresh perspectives on your own area of research, giving rise to new solutions.

Focus

Cooperation at European level

Forschungszentrum Jülich is involved in well over 100 projects at EU level, many of which it coordinates, as part of the Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, DIGITAL, and EURATOM 2027 programmes.

Division

National and International Relations (NIB)

Science and research at Forschungszentrum Jülich is international. Maintaining and expanding national and international relations and collaborations is therefore a crucial component of Jülich’s strategy. NIB advises and supports the Board of Directors in matters related to national and international partnerships.