Stimulating research

Leading-edge research

Leading-edge research is essential to understanding and learning about the challenges of ecological and social transition.

Sustainability research at UNIL encompasses both fundamental research aspects, such as the study of the environmental impacts of our societies, the modelling of the effects of climate change on the environment and the development of new technologies;s, modelling risks or past climates, as well as applied research questions focusing on the most promising transition strategies and measures.

Stimulating research into sustainability is one of the transition objectives that the University of Lausanne has set itself. It focuses in particular on setting up student projects in a systemic and interdisciplinary way, exploring the processes of ecological and social transformation, identifying the constraints and obstacles that slow it down and, above all, developing instruments of various kinds to overcome these difficulties.

Sustainability Transformation Research Initiative | STRIVE

STRIVE is a cross-disciplinary, interfaculty research programme led by the Centre de compétences en durabilité and funded by the management of UNIL. Its aim is to strengthen links and interdisciplinary projects, particularly between centres and institutes involved in sustainability, but also within other research areas. In an innovative approach, STRIVE focuses on the process of societal change and rather than a particular area of environmental issues.

It is a research programme that is essentially concerned with the humanities and social sciences, and as such has great potential for mobilising existing skills in the various faculties at UNIL.