The Sustainability Strategy 2030 lays the groundwork for sustainable development in research, teaching, transfer and campus life, according to Prof Dr Hauke Heekeren, President of Universität Hamburg: "As a university of excellence and flagship university in northern Germany, we want to actively shape the tranformation with sound science, digitally and sustainably," he added.
As part of this transformation, the university seeks to lower its (carbon) footprint i.e., emissions, as well as its handprint, brainprint and heartprint. The university's teaching and research projects will be adjusted for more sustainability. The heartprint will help establish a sustainable organisational structure.
UHH has prioritised sustainability since 2019 as foreseen by the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. To this end, the mission statement "Innovating and Cooperating for a Sustainable Future" was drawn up and later supplemented by the "Digital Age" to highlight the importance of twin transformation i.e., the simultaneous and integrated implementation of digital and sustainable transformation within an institution.
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