History
UNIL has been committed to sustainability for 30 years
CAP 2037
L’UNIL adopts its transition strategy CAP 2037 which sets 20 major objectivesà to achieve by 2037, the year of UNIL's 500th anniversary, so that the University is on a trajectory compatible with compliance with the’Paris Agreement and planétary limits in 2050.
Volteface Santé et Durabilité
A new call for Volteface projects has been launched to explore the theme of health linked to sustainability issues.
A Donut for UNIL
Publication of the report ‘Le Donut de l'UNIL : un outil de navigation pour la transition écologique et sociale’ (UNIL's Donut: a navigation tool for the ecological and social transition) to guide the Direction in the development and monitoring of its Transition Strategy.
The Transition Assembly
A participatory assembly, made up of 60 members of the university community chosen by lot, was mandated to produce a series of proposals to ‘reduce UNIL's impact within planetary limits while fulfilling its social mission’.
The Transition Assembly's final report will be published in 2022 and will contain 28 strategic objectives and 146 courses of action.
Volteface for students
A new adaptation of the Volteface platform dedicated to UNIL masters students who want to carry out action-research projects on the ecological and social transition linked to the concrete needs of partners in the field.
Less is more
In partnership with Romande Energie, the Centre de compétences en durabilité is launching a series of events on one of the most topical issues of our time: energy sobriety.
A plan of intentions geared towards transition
The new management team is taking up its duties and publishing an ambitious statement of intent which identifies 6 major societal issues on which to work. The ecological transition is at the top of the list.
New identities
With the arrival of a new Directorate, the ‘Sustainability and Campus’ department becomes ‘Ecological Transition and Campus’.
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability is changing its name and becoming a department of the Directorate, the Centre of Competence for Sustainability.
New expertise
A number of interdisciplinary research centres on the ecological and social transition are being set up:
- Observatoire du vélo et des mobilités actives (OUVEMA)
- City research network (CIRENE)
- Observatoire universitaire de la ville et du développement durable (OUVDD)
- Plateforme Durabilité et Santé
- Observatoire des récits et des imaginaires de l’Anthropocène (ORIA)
- Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en éthique
- Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la montagne (CIRM)
- Centre for Climate Impact and Action (Climact)
- Enterprise for society (E4S)
- Biodiversity observatory on campus
- Research Center for Grand Challenges
- Pôle environment and climate
- Pôle sustainable food systems
- Expertise Center for Climate Extremes (ECCE)
Sobirété énergétique
L’UNIL has been awarded the “Site 2000 watts en transformation” label. This distinction awarded by the Office fédéral de l’Énergie after an accreditation and audit process validates UNIL's longstanding efforts, as well as its plans to continue making the Dorigny campus a pioneering site.
MOST SUSTAINABLE
A WWF report on Switzerland's most sustainable universities, ranks the Université de Lausanne at the head of the pack.
Transversality;
Launch of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainability, to strengthen teaching on sustainability; stimulate interdisciplinary research; œuvre à tighten the éexchanges between the academic world and civil society.
This is the first centre of its kind in Switzerland.
Volteface 2
The second edition of Volteface will be launched in 2021 thanks to the support of the UNIL management and the Fondation pour l’UNIL.
Launch of Volteface
A platform for action research and collaboration on the societal aspects of the energy transition is being launched in collaboration with Romande Énergie and the State of Vaud.
UNIL supports the idea that an energy transition cannot be purely technological and that it must be a process of change;It involves institutional, economic, territorial and lifestyle changes.
At the Rectorate
À management
The ‘Sustainability and Campus’ Department is created within the Rectorate, seated by Benoît Frund as vice-rector. UNIL is the first Swiss university with such a position.
A new faculty;
Faced with growing demands for clarification around environmental issues, the University of Lausanne is creating a Faculty of Geosciences and Environment.
The FGSE brings together strong skills in human and physical geography as well as geology, to respond to society's need for a better understanding of man's place in his environment.
This is a first in the Swiss university system.
An environmental forum
Creation of an interfaculty seminar on the environment open to all Master's students at the University and in all faculties.
Ecology in the spotlight
A new figure is appearing at UNIL: the delegate for environmental sciences and ecology.