The University of Rijeka nurtures curiosity, boldness, inclusiveness, diversity, participation, and solidarity as prerequisites to progressive and equitable institutions, with access to education, ensuring equal opportunities for everyone, caring for vulnerable and underrepresented groups, promoting diversity, inclusiveness, and dignity of every person, academic integrity and public accountability that improve the authentic quality of research and education and contribute towards justice in society. By contributing towards achieving one goal, the University of Rijeka also contributes to achieving another global sustainable development goal (SDG) making it quite difficult in some cases to determine, categorize and distinguish to which specific sustainable development goal a particular activity contributes. All 17 global SDGs are based on three key dimensions of sustainable development, the social, environmental, and economic, which, together with partnership and peace, form the starting point of the path towards sustainable development.

Starting with the premise that individual activities contribute to several different goals, it can be concluded that the activities of the University of Rijeka and its constituents make a multifaceted contribution towards achieving SDGs and improving the well-being of society as a whole. The following section provides an overview of the contributions of the University of Rijeka to sustainable development achieved during 2021, which are not supported by evidence collected by using THE Impact Rankings methodology.