Strategy
From 50 years of campus to 500 years of UNIL
Being visionary means taking decisions today that will shape our future.
Moving the University of Lausanne out of the Cité and into the Dorigny countryside in the early 1970s was visionary. At that time, it was a question of anticipating the needs of the University of the 21st century.
Today's campus owes a great deal to the visionaries of the time. Reasoned urban development has enabled the green character of the site to be preserved. The underground technical gallery, conceived at the time of the first buildings, now makes it possible to connect a new heating plant to the water of the lake, which will enable UNIL to do without fossil fuels from 2027.
UNIL's transition strategy CAP2037 is part of this legacy.
It involves the entire university community working now to ensure that by 2037, its 500th anniversary, UNIL will be on a trajectory that is compatible with the Paris Agreement and the planet's limits.
With CAP2037, UNIL is continuing its long-standing commitment to sustainability, but changing its perspective. It is no longer a question of multiplying actions and then measuring their effects, but of clearly defining, by mobilising the most up-to-date scientific knowledge, the objectives to be achieved and the measures to be put in place.
The Transition Assembly, followed by a wide-ranging consultation of the various components of the university community, enabled us to define together the roadmap for achieving this goal. The result is 20 transition objectives that affect all areas of the institution.
Achieving these objectives will require us to question our daily habits and mobilise all our creativity to invent new ways of working, doing research and studying together, in order to build a more sustainable and fairer university.
We look forward to welcoming you to this adventure.
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