E&S Achievements - EASE : EASE

June 2026 – Symposium Summer Symposium Event: The importance of global research in achieving the SDGs
June 2026 – Poster EASE 2026 Summer Symposium poster: Infographics as a tool for promoting the Sustainable Development Goals EASE Environmental & Sustainability Committee poster at the EASE 2026 Summer Symposium, showing how EASE sustainability infographics are used for the promotion of Sustainable Development Goals. Authors: Lovorka Čaja , Tibor Komar, Iva Grabarić Andonovski and Zrinka Pongrac Habdija
February 2026 – Activity Social media campaign of sustainability infographics Launch of the 2026 social media campaign of sustainbility infographics, celebrating a number of world/international days across the year. The infographics were prepared by Tibor Komar, from Croatia on behalf of the Environment and Sustainability Committee.
October 2025 – Webinar E&S/STM Webinar: From Cloud to Carbon: Understanding the Footprint of Digital Knowledge Digital publishing has unlocked unprecedented global access to knowledge, but it also carries an environmental cost. From the energy demands of cloud infrastructure to the intensive computing power behind AI-driven tools, online publishing is shaping a carbon footprint for research and scholarly communication.
May 2025 – Guidelines, Poster 18th EASE Conference E&S Committee poster: Greener conferences: EASE-ing your sustainability This poster presented at the 18th EASE Conference (Oslo, 14-16 May 2025) shows tips and tricks that can help you make your live event more environmentally friendly and sustainable. Read the poster, "green" your event, and align with the UN SDGs!
May 2025 – Poster 18th EASE Conference E&S Committee poster: Growing a sustainable future: The impact of SDG Publishers Compact and EASE Manifesto The Environment & Sustainability Committee poster presented at the 18th EASE Conference (Oslo, 14-16 May 2025) is showing the road that led EASE to the development of the EASE SDG Checklist. Each stage is presented with a QR code that you can scan and see the information about the event, publication, recording and SDG Checklist tool. Try it out and find more information on how your journal can contribute to the UN SDGs!
May 2025 – Conference 18th EASE Conference Session 11: How can you contribute to your journal’s sustainability In this session, the EASE Environment & Sustainability (E&S) and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committees will give brief highlights and outcomes from Survey on the Impact of the SDG Publishers Compact/EASE Manifesto, and the EDI Survey. Both studies revealed the need for more support for small publishers/individual journals, and for tracking/reporting progress when implementing SDG and EDI policies in their journals. We will introduce our SDG Checklist, a resource of ideas for actions to take, and a baselining/reporting tool, and will hear from two Editors on using the tool to support their progress. We will discuss the EDI Survey on Editors’ perceptions and opinions about EDI policies and practices in their journals and organisations. The results uncovered specific needs that are guiding the EDI Committee’s actions to promote the implementation of EDI policies in journals.
May 2025 – Activity Launch of the EASE SDG Checklist The EASE E&S and EDI Committees were pleased to launch the new SDG Checklist - a tool that will help journals and publishers to implement the actions recommended by the UN SDG Publishers Compact and EASE Manifesto, align their workflows with the SDGs, monitor the activities and report on the progress.
April 2025 – Webinar EASE E&S webinar: How to acquire and promote SDG content for your journal
April 2025 – Webinar EASE E&S webinar: How to acquire and promote SDG content for your journal Tuesday, 22 April 2025 One of the action points of the SDG Publishers Compact is to actively promote and acquire content that advocates for themes represented by the Sustainable Development Goals. Our Environment and Sustainability Committee organised this webinar to share practical ideas on how you can fulfill this commitment. From small academic journals to large publishing houses, we can all make an impact through active organisation and promotion of the SDG-related content, e.g. organise a special issue, tag published content with relevant SDGs, or curate the collections of articles dedicated to each goal.
October 2024 – Article ESE Article: Sustainable Development Goals in academic publishing: impacts of SDG Publishers Compact and EASE Environmental Manifesto Members of the EASE E&S Committee published a paper in European Science Editing outlining the results of the EASE/HESI survey which took place in the Autumn of 2022. The EASE and the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) SDG Publishers Compact Fellows developed a survey to assess the progress made by signatories to the SDG Publishers Compact, detect obstacles that prevent other publishers or journals from signing the compact, assess awareness and implementation of the EASE Environmental Manifesto, and identify other initiatives that promote SDGs.
September 2024 – Webinar EASE webinar: AI as a sustainable writing and translation aid in scholarly publishing
February 2024 – Webinar EASE Webinar – Walking the walk: assessing our commitment to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals The EASE Environment and Sustainability Committee reported the results of the EASE/HESi Survey and compared them with those of the IPA's survey. They also discussed the EASE Manifesto and the STM/SDG roadmap which will help you reach your sustainability goals in 2024.
September 2023 – Panel discussion PUBMET2023 Conference ZNAK/EASE session: Environmental awareness and sustainability in scholarly communication Panel discussion organized by Croatian Association for Scholarly Communication (CROASC or ZNAK in Croatian), EASE Croatian Chapter and EASE Environment and Sustainability Committee, in which the ways to reduce environmental impact and increase sustainability, along with various initiatives and resources available for journal editors and publishers, will be presented and discussed.
July 2023 – Event ISMTE 2023 Global Event EASE session: Harnessing leadership and accountability for a sustainable publishing industry The conversations and actions around sustainability and environmental responsibilities of the publishing industry are gaining momentum in recent years. Building on related dialogues at ISMTE’s Global Event 2022 and EASE’s Annual Conference 2021, this session aims at making Aspire 2023 participants aware of the recent developments and of the opportunities for integrating sustainability-, environment-, and climate-related actions in the publishing ecosystem. This moderated panel discussion will further inform the participants about specific tools, e.g., EASE Environment Manifesto/Checklist, and STM SDG Forum’s Toolkits, available to adopt sustainability actions at individual as well as organizational levels. By engaging the participants in the conversation, the session will explore issues and challenges around leadership and accountability in the space of growth and sustainability of the publishing industry.
April 2023 EASE / STM / HESI / SDG Publishers Compact Fellows Sustainable Solutions Summit The free virtual event will focus on the top recommended actions and trends to better align academic research, education materials, and the sharing of research findings with making the world a better place through connections to the Sustainable Development Goals.
November 2022 Sustainable Solutions Summit Academic journal editors, editorial directors, and journal publishers are invited to join the SDG Publishers Compact Fellows and the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative in a Solutions Summit. The virtual event will focus on the top recommended actions and industry trends to better align journal scopes and practices with making the world a better place through connections to the Sustainable Development Goals.
October 2022 – Workshop EASE/HESI UN SDG Publishers Compact Survey Workshop EASE and the HESI Fellows action group are undertaking a joint initiative to conduct a study editors and those involved in scholarly communication and publishing to discover how they (or their organisations) are contributing to the achievement of the UN SDGs.
February 2022 – Discussion Collaboration with UN SDG Publishers Compact working group Meeting to discuss potential for collaboration with industry partners, co-ordinated by the UN SDG Publishers Compact, to develop content, tools and collateral to support their work in promoting and adopting the SDGs as part of their editorial work.
November 2021 – Editorial Joint editorial initiative with UK Health Alliance on Climate Change Collaboration with the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change to coordinate nursing and public health journals from across the world to simultaneously publish an editorial calling for world leaders to take emergency action to transform societies and limit climate change, restore biodiversity, and protect health. The E&S Committee encouraged EASE members with health journals to take part, and published a viewpoint in European Science Editing to raise awareness of the initiative. The joint editorial was published in advance of the UN General Assembly, one of the last international meetings taking place before the (COP26) climate conference in Glasgow, UK in November 2021. Over 220 leading journals, including The Lancet, the East African Medical Journal, the Chinese Science Bulletin, the New England Journal of Medicine, the International Nursing Review, the National Medical Journal of India, The British Medical Journal, the Revista de Saúde Pública (Brazil), and the Medical Journal of Australia.
October 2021 – Editorial Publication of the EASE Environmental Manifesto The Manifesto details examples of good practices, novel concepts, and steps editors can take that will help raise awareness, inspire new ideas and develop habits to reduce their environmental footprint in their own particular circumstances, contributing to global efforts to reduce environmental damage.
June 2021 – Guidelines Presentation and publication of the Environmental sustainability and scientific publishing: a manifesto Presentation and publication of the Environmental sustainability and scientific publishing: a manifesto at the 15th EASE Conference held online in June 2021, by EASE Council member and Chair of the E&S Committee, Stephan Mertens
June 2021 – Activity Signatory to the UN’s SDG Publishers Compact EASE and its journal European Science Editing, became signatories to the UN's SDG Publishers Compact.