Tag: impact

Back in September 2021, ImpactTracker was honoured at the Hidden REF Awards as a finalist in the Applications of Research category.

TrackImpact™ is a free-to-access solution that accelerates positive social, economic and environmental impact by enabling sectors as diverse as research, science, industry, policy, funding, academia and more to work together on critical projects for achieving a sustainable future.

“A chronic fear of environmental doom” is a growing concern felt by individuals yet has the power to be channeled into positive action.

“Successful collaboration relies on trust and long-standing relationships”, but how can we ensure this in the long-term? We discuss the reasons behind dwindling research collaboration and the importance of building global communities of researchers to guarantee mutual success and big rewards.

In the first part of our series in which we meet various members of the Vertigo Ventures team, we speak to Robert Mansion, one of the company’s earliest developers who has a wealth of experience with the ImpactTracker™ product.

Universities and the academic sectors more generally, with their broad remit around the creation and dissemination of knowledge and their unique position in society, have a critical role to play in the achievement of the SDGs. Education, research, innovation, teaching, public engagement and leadership will be essential in helping society to transform into pathways of sustainable development.

The THE University Impact Rankings look at universities’ impact on society, based on 11 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Vertigo Ventures’ CEO Laura Tucker will one of the Key-Note Speakers at the upcoming Sustainability Science Days 2019 conference in Helsinki, 9-10 May.

Times Higher Education is set to launch the world’s first university impact ranking. The initiative – the first global attempt to document evidence of higher education impact – is designed to capture unique new insights on universities’ work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Universities contribute a huge amount to society, and this data can offer a new perspective on how they’re addressing some of the most pressing global issues. This work has never been fully explored in the past, and has never been recognised in global rankings. The need and desire for clear, new metrics on impact is strong, and while this is a highly challenging area of data collection, it’s also an important and necessary step forward.

In addition to working on the THE University Impact Rankings 2019, over the last few months, the VV team analysed THE World University Rankings 2019 top 100 higher education institutions (HEIs) in terms of their operational footprint as well as the sustainability impact of their teaching and research. Taking the 17 SDGs as a benchmark, our report, titled Insights into the Global Top 100 HEIs Practices in Achieving the UN SDGs, analysed publicly available data from the 100 institutions covering how they manage a variety of sustainability issues such as, policies in alignment with SDGs, governance, and curriculum development in alignment with SDGs.