Topic: sustainability

Achieving a sustainable society requires groundbraking changes comparable to the industrial revolution, suggested by the University of Tartu Deep Transitions research group in a recently completed research project.

The University of Tartu offers a free online course for greenfluencers.

Conference "Three Pillars of Circular Bioeconomy: Talent, R&D, and Technologies" took place at the Öpiku Conference Centre in Tallinn (Valukoja 8) on 12 and 13 February 2024.

Over the next six years, researchers from the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology will study how Ida-Viru County transitions to a more sustainable economic model, what the region can evolve into, and how local decision-makers could best guide the transition.

The theme week, running from 5 to 11 February, will include a social media campaign highlighting the work and achievements of women researchers.

The public online workshop discussing the human health impacts of urban greenness will be held on Friday, 26 January.

The Digital Cleanup Week will take place at the University of Tartu for the fourth time from 22 to 26 January.

Over the next seven years, the government will fund ten centres of excellence addressing scientific issues of importance to Estonia. The University of Tartu has tight connections with all of them.

On 22 December the university announced a framework call for tenders for electricity procurement from renewable energy sources.

At the council meeting of the University of Tartu’s Centre for Sustainable Development on 13 December, the council appointed Professor of Environmental Health Hans Orru as the new Head of the Centre.