澳大新語 • 2025 UMAGAZINE 32 8 封面專題 • COVER STORY Sustainable development is a shared goal of humanity. In 2015, the United Nations launched the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which established 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across three key dimensions— environmental, social, and economic—aiming to build a greener and more balanced future for all. Higher education institutions, as hubs of knowledge and innovation, play a vital role in advancing this global agenda. The University of Macau (UM) contributes to these global efforts through distinctive ideas and practical initiatives. Distinctive Research Vision and Directions UM has developed a clear strategy and taken concrete steps to advance sustainable development. Between 2020 and 2024, the university published 6,030 research papers related to SDGs, representing about 30% of its total research output. Among these articles, research related to SDG7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), SDG4 (Quality Education), and SDG3 (Good Health and Wellbeing) accounted for the highest number of publications, highlighting UM’s strong research activity in these areas. According to Rector Yonghua Song, UM’s key approach to advancing SDGs is to integrate sustainable development concepts into both teaching and research. Guided by its positioning as a university ‘rooted in Macao, taking part in the development of the Greater Bay Area, integrating into the nation, and going global’, UM leverages innovative technologies to address societal needs. UM’s sustainable development research layout spans all three key SDG dimensions (see Table on page 7). In the environmental dimension, research focuses on developing technologies to address global challenges, such as achieving carbon neutrality, improving wastewater treatment efficiency, marine pollution control, and aquatic biodiversity conservation. In the social dimension, research addresses issues directly related to quality of life and social wellbeing, including new-energy battery technologies, Chinese medicine-based 澳大聚焦社會發展需求開展社會範疇的研究 UM aligns its research in the social dimension closely with societal needs
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