The Sustainable Development Goals
The SDGs are the 17 global goals established by the United Nations to promote a more sustainable, peaceful and prosperous future for everyone, everywhere, by 2030. They are the map the institute steers by.
The 17 goals
Seventeen goals, one agenda.
Hover to see each goal move. Click any goal to open its own page with the official description, the main targets and the Helix projects that serve it.
Explore each goal
What each goal asks for.
Helix and the goals
How we use them.
Every Helix project is mapped to the goals it serves before it starts, and judged against them when it ends. The goals give us a shared language with municipalities, funders and partners, and a way to check that many small projects add up to something larger.
Our five areas of work sit across the goals rather than inside any one of them: human development, knowledge and education, cooperation, innovation and sustainable futures.