Sustainable Development Goals and Community Diagnosis: Insights of the SDG Rural Lab Project

This paper presents a methodological development based in social diagnosis. It analyses the strength to approach Sustainable Development Goals to process of community diagnosis in order to reinforce collective social analysis.

The SDGs RURAL LABS is a participatory action research project designed ad-hoc by a team of university experts from the University of Zaragoza, with which we contribute to the appropriation of the 2030 Agenda in rural and peri-urban contexts.

We use citizen science and the social innovation laboratory model to contribute to the landing of the 2030 Agenda in local rural environments and create community diagnoses “in the key of SDGs” where a key piece is the associative, institutional, educational and neighborhood fabric of the community and open “down-up” dialogue.

Our innovation proposal consists of promoting, through Citizen Science, knowledge, awareness, collective diagnosis, co-design of actions and search for alternatives by local actors, facilitating a strategic vision of the 2030 Agenda as the basis of a development agenda. local. The SDGs RURAL LABS aim to collectively identify existing local challenges while seeking to reinforce existing initiatives by making them visible as contributions to the 2030 Agenda.

The presentation emphasizes the theoretical and methodological components of the project: sociocybernetics, community diagnosis and participatory action research. It discusses different case studies and results in the implementation phase.