Banca de DEFESA: PAULA BRITO PEREIRA FERRAZ

MAPPING THE ACADEMIC PRODUCTION AT THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA IN THE LIGHT OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES

Sustainable Development Goals. 2030 Agenda. United Nations. Academic research. Federal university of Bahia

In 2015, the United Nations presented the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the document entitled Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. By contextualizing the University as one of the social actors for the realization of the SDGs, this dissertation focuses on bringing the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) as a case study to highlight, in particular, the role of academic research as a potential tool for the achievement of the SDGs. For that, a mapping of the academic productions deposited in the UFBA Institutional Repository between the years 2016 and 2020 was carried out, allowing, through the search for keywords justified and approved by 15 specialists, a direct link of the results obtained to the objectives of the Agenda . In the end, in addition to mapping how UFBA's academic production has potentially incorporated the proposed SDGs, both in absolute numbers and through the existence of graduate programs and specific lines of research, a survey of the strengths and gaps of the academic production of the institution, in addition to an agenda with future research projects. Based on the results obtained, it is expected that this dissertation can support new actions to implement the SDGs both at UFBA and at other Higher Education Institutions.