SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
UPF is working on the following aspects related to this SDG:
Education and teaching
Subjects that incorporate this SDG
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26452 Humanitats i Pràctica Professional: Creació i Gestió d'Esdeveniments Culturals
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25586 Traducció de Textos Especialitzats (Humanisticoliteraris)
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32741 Videogames, Transmedia Imaginaries and Contemporary Entertainment
Source: Details of the Teaching Activity Plan 2022-2023. Extracted on 13/02/2023
For more information on these you can find these subjects in the Teaching Activity Plan.
If you want to find teachers with experience in these topics look at the UPF experts guide.
Resources for teachers who want to introduce social, economic and environmental sustainability in their subjects
Other related actions
- Vision seminars. The Conference 'Visions of an Unequal World' aims to show the counterpoints between the places and people who inhabit the planet, from the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Previous years
Research and transfer
Research Groups and Units carrying out research on this SDG
- Grup de Recerca CASEs -Culture, Archaelogy and Socio-Ecological Dynamics
- Grup de Recerca Comunicació, Publicitat i Societat (CAS)
- Grup de Recerca en Dret Patrimonial
- Grup de Recerca Ubiquitous Computing Applications Laboratory (UbiCa Lab)
Source: Research Service: Information entered in the request for the 2023 Research Support Measures Plan
Años anteriores
Examples of projects working on this SDG (more information at the ods.cat website)
Projects in progress
AI and Process Automation for Sustainable Entertainment and Media (EMERALD) IP: Blat Gimeno, Jose AngelThe current surge in video and extended reality content is causing an excessive demand for skilled human resources, data processing, and energy. EMERALD meets this challenge by developing process automation for sustainable media creation; optimizing data use for AI/ML in entertainment and media applications; reducing the power demands for large-scale media data processing; and creating acceptance and demand for AI and sustainable production technologies in the entertainment and media industries. Project start and end: 2023-2026.
Competencia, Innovación y Sostenibilidad. IP: Ferrer Zarzuela, Rosa. The project aims to guide policy-makers design policies for competition and regulation, and aid firm managers to devise innovation and sustainability strategies. Project start and end: 2023-2026.
Finalised projects
SCOM – Sustainable Company PI: Mélon, Lela. This project aims to provide new inter- and multidisciplinary solutions to the challenges of sustainable corporate behaviour through the analysis of ‘best practices’ of ‘highly sustainable companies’, and by using the experience of ‘green public procurement’ in the EU and especially in Catalunya. Project start and: 2018-2020. 
Activism Mobilising Science (AMS): Citizen empowerment through knowledge co-production in public health-environmental conflicts PI: Zografos, Christos. The main objective of the project is to use empirical research to investigate and improve the empowerment of citizens in the context of the public health implications of pollution and environmental conflicts. Project start and end: 2018-2020.
Source: Database of grants and contracts and PDI project datasheets
Examples of research projects (TFG, TFM and thesis) on this SDG
- Food sustainability and education in the European Union: state-of-the-art review of European Union’s public policies and degree of incorporation of food sustainability to education. Hoyos i de la Cuesta, Laia. (2022) TFG.
Source: e-repository UPF Research Tesis (Data as of 2004). e-repository UPF Student Work (Data as of 2015).