Sustainability Transformations is a doctoral education pilot implemented jointly by ten Finnish universities and the Finnish Environment Institute. The doctoral education pilot will train 40 doctoral graduates in 2025–2027. The Ministry of Education and Culture, together with the Research Council of Finland, has granted 10.2 million euros to the doctoral education pilot in sustainability transformations. The participating universities have hired the students admitted to the doctoral education pilot.
Sustainability transformations research is interdisciplinary and solution-oriented, focusing on climate change, biodiversity loss and depletion of natural resources. Themes of research include, citizens’ lifestyles, planetary health and well-being, production and consumption, governance and law, and cultural transformations.
SusTra has a strong societal impact as part of government´s thousand doctors pilot programme:
A unique platform with a strong societal impact
- Renewing doctoral education practices
- Promoting new interdisciplinary research and the transformative approach in education practices
- Sharing best practices across disciplines and organisations
- Collaborating with practice (working life) to speed up the implementation of scientific sustainability knowledge