The SDGs, which were unanimously adopted by the 193 United Nations member states in 2015, call for improving the lives of individuals everywhere through eradicating hunger, poverty, and gender inequality while protecting the planet. The SDG Publishers Compact includes a list of ten approaches that publishers can adopt to contribute to achieving the SDGs during the decade of action (2020 – 2030).

The SDG Publishers Compact was launched in 2020 with the aim of encouraging publishers to take steps to work towards the SDGs in their own way. We signed the Publishers Compact in July 2021, becoming only the fifth organisation in the Middle East to do so.

KnE Publishing signed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Publishers Compact and is proud to be among the first institutions in the Middle East to sign – supporting a more sustainable future.

Raising awareness about inclusion, quality education, health and well-being, gender equality, climate action and other SDG themes has always been a priority for KnE Publishing. We look forward to intensifying our efforts to address the pressing issues of our time. By advocating for the SDG themes through our publications, collaborations, and operations, we hope to inform and inspire action towards more sustainable practices – and ultimately, a more sustainable world.

Committed to the SDGs, KnE Publishing hopes to find new ways to promote the global initiative’s themes and spread information about their significance through its publications. We largely focus on SDGs 4, 9 and 12 – these are the goals relating to education, research and development, and environmental sustainability

We’re committed to helping researchers in emerging economies disseminate their research. To do this, we publish the articles of researchers from these countries, and provide training and support services to help them conduct their research and share their results with as wide an audience as possible.

We also provide Open Access research that communities can use to help tackle the SDGs themselves, for example by working on addressing diseases and conditions particularly affecting people in low- and middle-income countries, fostering women’s empowerment in local communities, and developing environmental health, food security and alternative energy strategies.

In addition, we help to organise the annual conference for the Forum for Open Research in MENA (F.O.R.M.). This is a non-profit membership initiative supporting the advancement of open science policies and practices in research communities and institutions across the Arab world.