"17 goals and a map" born to be a permanently revisable observatory framework of the SDGs taken to the scale of the territory. This project will grow the more voices compose it and with greater social return, in such a way that common expectations will be opened by consulting other references and understanding other voices. Participation in "17 goals and a map" allow exploring initiatives that transmit values to citizens, managing to build, among all, a future of SDGs.
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) contribute to unite cities, organizations, local governments, and people networks, sharing their transformation policies and challenges for the future of our planet.
The culture, cultural heritage in particular, is a fundamental pillar in the achievement of the SDGs in the coming years. In this scenario, (focused on people and their work to place culture, education, heritage, art and social development at the centre), we have developed a projet together with the Jaume I University (Castellón). "17 objectives and a map", works out in the 17 ODGs and emphasizes the importance of traditional crafts, construction techniques and the restoration of our heritage to achieve the global goals.
The history of construction shows us that vernacular architecture have always been creative in adapting and optimizing buildings using the local resources available to fulfill their needs in the best way. In this process, in a natural and sustainable way, climatic, economic, social and cultural factors have been taken into account.
During 2020 and 2021 we have been developing workshops where heritage communities exchange experiences and good practices improving mutual learning, in a playful and fluid way, identifying and extracting SDG messages in their different projects. With the help of toolkits developed by our team, heritage communities are aware of the importance of sustainable actions to transform the heritage future.
After several months of workshop, the results served the participants to review their projects from an SDG perspective and to restructure some points of them in favor of a more sustainable future. Also, the results constituted an excellent starting point to work, in a pioneering way, in the field of the SDGs from a heritage prism.
Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context
According to the 2030 agenda, the challenges to be assumed in less than a decade are grouped into 17 objectives that we must improve. In terms of cultural heritage, these objectives are equally fundamental. The SDGs contribute to bringing together cities, organizations, local governments and communities, through the sharing of their transformation policies and challenges for the future of the planet.
The objective of the project is the participation of many people in participatory actions to explore initiatives that transmit values to citizens, so that common expectations are shared by consulting other referents and understanding the codes of others.
It is a tool to inspire and guide the strategy and management of the organizations that participate, generating positive impact and working for sustainable development. Being part of "17 objectives and a map" is an opportunity to open participatory learning processes as well as to include communities in decision-making.
To participate in this initiative you must visit the "participate" tab of the website and fill out the form that is available.
This 2022 is the Year of Heritage and Sustainability declared by the Council of Europe for the European Heritage Days
Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context
The cultural and natural heritage in the « emptied Spain » is unprotected, abandoned and little by little ruined in big part of our territory. The province of Castellón is a good example of this. It os is made up of 135 municipalities, and 86% of them are settlements of less than 5,000 inhabitants and 19 of them less than 100.
Among those active communities that rescue, emphasize and claim the regeneration of their territory in this work we highlight those that work for their heritage, (Faro Convention, 2005).
Identify goals and SDGs that characterize the work of the participants in the territorial sphere based on initiatives, actions and good practices of the different groups.
The work was initially conceived as a series of face-to-face participatory workshops, but the existing socio-sanitary we reformulated the project and the methodology, taking advantage of the possibilities offered by technology, but without giving up the physical tools that allow the sense of touch to be used in decision-making
We sent to each participant a work kit : a dark blue hexagon envelope of heavy weight paper, symbolizing SDG 17 (Partnerships to achieve the goals), within which 17 tokens were included, one from each SDG. The envelope included instructions for use and a QR that allowed direct access to the 17ODS-PEU UJI web.
Using the toolkit received, each group worked on the identification and analysis of the goals and objectives that were already part of the internal and external processes, and, in turn, becoming aware of the objectives that they would like to improve next months. Participants shared their results in different RRSS with the hashtags #ODSterritorio and #ODSpatrimonio. Subsequently, we worked on the results creating a common hive organization. All this with the aim of understand the interests and common points among the participants and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnership
Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context
The work is based on a general objective, implement the Sustainable Development Goals in all the projects that are part of the heriatege communities working with Jaume I University, but also in open access groups, both in current and future practices, activities and processes.
The specific objectives to be achieved with the work are:
Approximate the objectives of Sustainable Development and the 2030 Agenda to the social work communities of the PEU (Programme Extention University from Jaume I University), breaking down the goals of each one of them and establishing relationships between SDGs and heritage.
Identify goals and SDGs that characterize the work of the participants in the territorial sphere based on initiatives, actions and good practices of the different groups.
Raise awareness among participating groups and communities about the need for all agents to work together and the potential of their actions to achieve a fairer, more inclusive and sustainable world.
Reach future commitments from the different communities to align their processes with the SDGs and work to achieve the specific objectives.
The starting point is disparate. While some participants, mainly those directly related to public administration, are familiar with the SDGs and have incorporated them into some of their daily practices, others have never heard of them. Therefore, we work with a flexible methodology that facilitates the indicated objectives and that adapts them to the circumstances of the participating groups.
In addition, a series of working materials were created that the participants themselves improved over the course of the working sessions.
Some of them we find in https://17ods-peuuji.com/materiales-de-trabajo/
Please highlight how this approach can be exemplary
This project allowed us to involve the community in the work in favor of a more sustainable, egalitarian future, through analysis, awareness and training on the goals related to their projects.
The data shows us that the work of the heritage communities and other stakeholders contributes in a wide range to the achievement of the SDGs, although there are a series of objectives that stand out above the others.
Specific resources and methodological tools were provided to allow individual reflection and team working, and each agent expressed their commitment to work on the SDGs from specific lines.
The results obtained made it possible to understand the interests of the parties and to focus on those SDGs with which the different groups mostly identify, which allowed us to formulate future work strategies that facilitate the continuity of the project.
This work allowed the monitoring and evaluation of the work carried out in each of the proposed goals, that allowed stakeholders to measure the degree of achievement of the proposed objectives.
Once the results came to us through #ODSpatrimonio #17ODSpeuuji #ODSterritorio, we analyzed them from different prisms creating analytics.
With the statistics that we created, we extracted the percentage of people who were already working on each SDG, where we could realize about how some SDGs stand out from the others (Fig 5). For example, more than 70% were already working in their projects with the perspective of SDG number 5, “Gender Equality”.
Extracting data for each SDG we became aware of the weight or importance of a given SDG in the activities of the participants. We could see the present relevance of number 4 “Quality Education” in the actual practices of the different teams or the trend to the future in working on SDG number 12 “Responsible consumption and production”.
With the aim of understanding the real interests of the participants, we analyzed together current practices with future ones, obtaining those SDGs with stronger presence in the participants. It allowed us to connect groups from different fields but with similar interest in SDG in micronets where stakeholders could share ideas, Best Practices, debate about how to focus on SDG, how to measure progress in one SDG or target etc. Objectives 4, 5, 11, 12 and 17 stand out above the rest.
Please also explain the benefits that derived from their involvement.
Maybe we are not aware that one of the fundamental pillars is to place culture at the centre of sustainable development policies. But it is essential to manage the cultural component of our local actions for the benefit of social and sustainable development.
Safeguarding and promoting culture are ends in themselves and, at the same time, means to contribute to the achievement of many of the SDGs: achieving safe and sustainable cities, fostering economic growth and decent work, reducing inequality, halting environmental degradation, achieving gender equality or promoting peaceful and inclusive societies.
This project has invited the exchange of experiences by heritage communities (associations, individuals, local or supramunicipal administrations ...) improving mutual learning, and in a playful and fluid way. The messages of the SDG have been extracted from the local level and transferred to the international language, presenting it in national or international discussion forums (such as this one). It will help to understand why culture is important in the transformation of the environment and how a credible connection can be made between cultural heritage, local development, work on territory and sustainable development goals for the international community.
In the conferences held we observed that the transversally of culture, and the cultural heritage sector in particular, is a powerful vector of change and that it is capable of sealing the three principles (social, economic and environmental). From the work carried out in the territory, on a very limited scale in rural areas and with agents not always professional, an excellent starting point is extracted to work, in a pioneering way, in the field of the SDGs from a cultural and community perspective. Working with cultural associations, local development agents, university professionals and small associations of rural territories.
We continue working on #ODSpatrimonio as a gateway with institutions
The project is currently beginning its second phase, with the main objective, after the conclusions obtained in the first one, of creating synergies that contribute to social and cultural transformation and enhance this multi-stakeholder partnerships -from different fields but with similar interest- that could share knowledge, ideas, experiences, etc. to support the achievement of the sustainale development goals.
At this time, also after knowing and verifying the entire work process of our heritage communities as well as their commitment, we aspire to build our own indicators, in collaboration with these services and heritage communities, in order to make visible the hidden face of cultural heritage values.
The « 17 SDG and a map » project has placed the heritage communities that work within the framework of the University Extension Program of the UJI at the head of the SDG bets on culture.
This experience has the keys to be replicated with any working group around cultural heritage: technicians, administrations, citizen associations, local entities, universities... from anywhere in the world. The SDGs are goals to be achieved at a universal level by all countries, and their achievement has a delivery date, 2030. The tools generated by the team are sensitive to use by any interested working group.
Hexagon kit, wooden puzzles, stickers, stickers, templates and transfers as well as information sheets to work in the classroom are some of the resources generated from our work. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.
Please provide clear documentation, communication of methodology and principles in this context.
17 SDG and a map is an extensible and configurable solution, that is, it can be adapted and adjusted to the specific needs of each territory. It offers an index that measures the degree of compliance of each specific project with each of the 17 SDGs, in addition to the possibility of accessing other projects of a similar nature and with common objectives.
These data and information, embodied in a map or a scorecard, provide the Administration with the necessary knowledge to focus resources. Thus, through the indicators, a City Council will be able. for example, to identify which are the areas, neighborhoods or even census tracts, with the highest risk of poverty and make faster decisions to be able to meet the needs of the most vulnerable population in an effective way.
And not only that, but through the results tables elaborated, new projects can be created in collaboration with related entities in terms of SDGs.
Producing an improvement in the performance of each SDG and determining if there is a real impact.
All the created tools and the way of participation is at https://17ods-peuuji.com/
@ARAE Patrimonio y Restauración, 2021
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