Research for Goal 13
The University of Padua recognizes and supports research activity on the different themes of sustainability, in line with Goal 13 for sustainable development of 2030 UN Agenda, guaranteeing its freedom and full development while maintaining a multidisciplinary approach.
For this purpose, the University promotes collaboration among its internal structures and with other bodies and institutions, both in the national and international context, through the establishment and animation of research centers, interdepartmental centers, laboratories, observatories and scientific poles.
Research centers
Study Centre for Environmental Challenges – SCEC
SCEC’s goal is to promote research and innovation for the environment, in tune with the needs of the local territory and in response to major environmental global emergencies. Its areas of interest include, for example: the conservation and regeneration of the environment, from mountain to the sea; the development of creative technological and management solutions applied to ecosystem services; slowing and reversing processes of erosion of genetic biodiversity, species andecosystems; the development of technologies and approaches for the sustainability of terrestrial and aquatic environments, and much more.
Centre for Climate Change Impact Studies
CRITICAL was founded in order to contribute to risk assessment, study of territorial changes and creation of climate projections. Its intention is also to create infrastructures with High Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud and Big Data technologies and, last but not least, to become a provider of “climate services” for the University’s research groups and local, national and international bodies, which will be able to use the data generated in their decision-making processes. Thus considered, CRITICAL ‘s ambition and mission are to become a landmark on the topic of climate change and its concrete risks and impacts, with a focus on italian and Veneto territory.
Research projects
“Let’s measure the Marmolada glacier together” campaign
Wearables and droneS fOr CIty Socio-Environmental Observations and BEhavioral ChangE
The climate-driven disaster of the Marmolada Glacier (Italy)
Recent waning snowpack in the Alps is unprecedented in the last six centuries
Steps dominate gas evasion from a mountain headwater stream
Large sinuous rivers are slowing down in a warming Arctic
Oxygen dynamics in marine productive ecosystems at ecologically relevant scales