The UU provides an open stage where we collaborate on multidisciplinary solutions to sustainable issues. The campus is our living laboratory. Here we educate a new generation, on the way to a sustainable future.
Join the "UU's Digital Carbon Footprint" co-creation session on Monday, 19 May 2025, to explore and reduce the environmental impact of Utrecht University's digital services.
With bold and coordinated policy choices—across emissions, diets, food waste, and water and nitrogen efficiency—humanity could, by 2050, bring global environmental pressures back to 2015 levels.
You can easily put together a curriculum with sustainability as its theme via the course planner (within the free electives, choose the SDGs you think are important).
Eliminating chemicals that were designed to never go away has proven difficult. A team of scientists at Utrecht University is aiming to change that by exploring ways to break the cycle of PFAS contamination.