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SDG 4: Quality Education

Sustainable Development Goal 4 of the United Nations aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education, and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Education is a fundamental human right, and it is also essential for economic growth, social development, and environmental protection.

This hubSN SDG logo © Springer Nature 2019 features highlights from Springer Nature's journal and book programme, blogs, events and more. Covering topics such as education policy, higher education, inclusive education, gender equality in education, and more.

If you care about your work contributing to achieving the SDGs, then you should work with a publisher that shares that commitment. Springer Nature, steadfastly focused on the SDGs, is that publisher. Publishing your SDG 4-linked research with Springer Nature will amplify its reach, impact and influence.

"OA allows everybody to access a paper, regardless of their economic possibilities, and has the potential to play a pivotal role in advancing SDG 4"

ANTONI PEREZ-NAVARRO, PhD, University Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, on publishing SDG 4-linked research open access in a Springer Nature journal

Call for Papers: Article Collections

If your work bears on SDG 4, you can amplify its impact by publishing it in one of many themed article collections / special issues.

- SDG 4 Quality Education Collection (Cross-journal Collection)

- Math for SDG 4 - Quality Education (Bulletin of Mathematical Biology)

- The Role of Education in the Implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Discover Sustainability)