Drive Sustainability
Drive Sustainability will leverage our research excellence and global reach to help create solutions that boldly address global sustainability challenges. Our global sustainability strategy will lead us as we share the insights from our sector-leading approach and our pioneering research with the wider world so that we can act together to find ways to ensure a sustainable future.
Drive Sustainability will unite us as a community of action and demonstrate our commitment to shaping sustainable futures across our five campuses. It will also shed light on how we can lead by example for other universities and organisations worldwide.
Our goal is to raise over £28 million for facilities that will house and showcase our pioneering research, education initiatives, and solutions to complex sustainability challenges.
Learn more below about how we will shape a better future by driving sustainability.
iNetZ+ is our Global Research Institute for Achieving Net Zero and Beyond. It exists to tackle the global climate emergency, particularly related to net zero and beyond. We will achieve this by collaborating with local communities, governments and industrial partners to deliver market-ready solutions that will help tackle some of the biggest global sustainability challenges.
World-leading researchers from our campuses in Scotland, Malaysia and Dubai will work with communities and partners to transform Heriot-Watt University’s state-of-the-art campuses into accessible, interactive test beds for innovative ideas and solutions, and provide distinctive pathways to impact.
Together, we will transition beyond net zero.
Learn more about iNetZ+ net zero and beyond
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Global Sustainability Strategy
Heriot-Watt has 10 Institutional Commitments that form our global sustainability strategy to reduce our environmental impact, enhance our climate mitigation, and contribute to sector-wide efforts
Award Winning Innovations
Spin-out Kenoteq, inventor of the K-Briq won the 2020 STEM Research Project of the Year Award and in 2022, the International Dezeen Sustainability Award
Reducing Environmental Impact of Medical Waste
By developing sustainable lateral flow tests, using upcycled materials, we are significantly reducing the environmental impact of medical waste
