The Social Sustainability Report provides an annual update on Sapienza's progress against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The results are presented in the sections on the different activities, and a table at the end allows you to search the contents for each goal.

Sapienza's Social Sustainability Report 2023 was drafted following the Standard elaborated by the Network of Universities for Sustainable Development (Rus) with the Balance and Sustainability Group (GBS). The document illustrates the 2023 results with data, tables and information, to represent the social output of Sapienza in relation to the 17 SDGs.

Within the Standard, of particular interest is the reclassification of balance sheet data that highlights the added value produced by Sapienza and its redistribution to stakeholders.

Among the activities of 2023, some novelties are directly related to the Sustainable Development Goals. In July 2023, the Governing Bodies approved the 'Sapienza Policy for Sustainability', a document prepared by Sapienza's Technical Scientific Committee on Sustainability, which for the first time explicitly states the preference for working with partners that meet environmental, social and governance (ESG) sustainability criteria.

The academic year brought the new edition of the training course, in Italian, "Sustainability Sciences: Cultural, Ecological and Digital Transition", completely free of charge for students already enrolled at Sapienza.

The evolution of this initiative will be the ‘lesson zero’ offered by the 11 Faculties to all students enrolled in each programme. As part of the development of educational activities, new degree programmes were activated at the Latina and Rieti branches in 2023, including some explicitly related to green issues.

Sustainability - in particular the ecological transition - is a cross-cutting theme for many of the projects in which Sapienza is involved within the PNRR, including Rome Technopole. The Social Sustainability Report reports, by way of a non-exhaustive list, the scientific publications related to the SDGs disseminated during the year through institutional press releases.

Numerous outreach activities took place such as the celebration of the centenary of Italo Calvino's birth or, in the context of SDG 5 Gender Equality, the second edition of the training campus 'Obiettivo5.Parità di genere', organised in collaboration with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

In 2023, Sapienza's commitment against mafias, linked to SDG 16 Peace and Justice, Strong Institutions, continued with the new training course 'Dialoghi sulla legalità', created to promote the sharing of constitutional principles and commitment against mafias and violence.

On the inclusion front, alongside Sapienza's commitment to promoting the right to study with total exemption from paying university fees for about 40,000 enrolled students and reductions for more than 32,000, initiatives such as the development of the Sapienza University’s Prison Campus continue, with 53 enrolments by 2023 and orientation activities in prison.

The reorganisation of the central administration launched in 2023 also took sustainability into account as a strategic priority, with the creation of the new Sustainability Unit and the conversion of the coordinating structures into the Heritage and Sustainability Office and the Heritage and Sustainability Area respectively.

A new section of the document is dedicated to the main customer satisfaction surveys, involving internal and external stakeholders: from Services to the public (Public relations office and Student Affairs Offices) to the organisational wellbeing survey and students' opinions on teaching.

As of this year, the report is subject to an assurance process carried out by Sapienza’s Scientific-Technical Committee for Sustainability, as well as to reader evaluation through a questionnaire at the end of the document.

Social Sustainability Report (Highlights)

2023 Social Sustainability Report (in Italian)

Questionnaire (in Italian)