Topic: sustainability

Scientists at the Institute of Chemistry’s Chair of Organic Chemistry are exploring ways to create innovative and sustainable materials from wood components.

The 8th episode of the University of Tartu Institute of Chemistry podcast „Tuleviku energeetika – energeetika tulevik“. Our guest was Professor of Physical Chemistry and Academician Enn Lust.

The University of Tartu, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn University, the Estonian University of Life Sciences, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, the Estonian Academy of Arts, and the Gender Equality and Equal Treatment Commissioner celebrate the Diversity Week from 6 to 12 May, under the title “Diverse Estonian universities”.

Alongside the creation of new technologies, Ida-Virumaa's transition to a sustainable economic model requires diversified skills and support for the development of research-intensive businesses.

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.

The Fair Transition Fund’s consortium of Tallinn University of Technology and the University of Tartu will implement 22 research projects in Ida-Viru County over the next six years to support socioeconomic change in the region and meet the development needs of companies.

On 16 October, the first cooperation seminar of Tallinn University of Technology and the University of Tartu’s consortium of the Just Transition Fund was held at the Virumaa College of the Tallinn University of Technology. The event brought together 22 research teams whose work will help develop technologies and monitor societal transition in the Ida-Viru region over the next six years.

On 18 April, Alexela, Eesti Energia, Port of Tallinn, the University of Tartu and the Estonian Association of Hydrogen Technologies signed an agreement founding Hydrogen Valley Estonia.

Environmental chemists are beginning to investigate efficient and resource-efficient removal technology of organic micropollutants from wastewater.

Stargate Hydrogen and the University of Tartu have successfully concluded the first phase of a joint development project.