"Climate IT"

How do we make technologies more efficient and less energy consuming?

Climate IT Pinar Tozun Zoi Kaoudi Computer Science Department Events Research

10 October, 2024

In the age of resource awareness, ensuring the energy efficiency of digital technologies shaping our world is critical. Associate Professors Pınar Tözün and Zoi Kaoudi from IT University of Copenhagen tackle the issue from a hardware and a software perspective. Catch their session at this year’s Digital Tech Summit, 31 October.

New research project to ensure a just green transition in the Nordic-Baltic Region

Climate IT Vasilis Galis Business IT Department Research democracy diversity ethics grants

2 September, 2024

A new four-year, Nordforsk funded research project, coordinated by associate professor at ITU Vasilis Galis, will partner with Indigenous and local grassroots communities in Greenland, Lithuania, and Sápmi to learn about their experiences and challenges in the context of environmental justice.

Researchers work to solve healthcare’s growing e-waste problem

Climate IT Business IT Department Research digitization grants health

19 June, 2024

Associate Professor Daniel Fürstenau and PhD Fellow Camille Rønn lead a 9-million-euro Horizon Europe project aimed at solving the growing e-waste problem in the healthcare industry and closing its current linear take-make-waste operations.

ITU researchers secure EU funding for research in digital agriculture and affective gaming

Climate IT Elisa Mekler Steffen Dalsgaard Business IT Department Research Digital Design Department computer games green IT

15 April, 2024

Professor Steffen Dalsgaard and Assistant Professor Elisa Mekler have collectively secured almost half a million euros from the Marie Sklodowska Curie Programme to fund two postdocs working on projects in digital agriculture and affective gaming.

New research project: Studying Ghana’s digital emergency preparedness

Climate IT Research grants

22 August, 2023

Alena Thiel has received the Horizon Europe’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral fellowship for her project, MUNDI. During the next two years she will investigate the use of digital innovations for the predictive anticipation, real-time analysis, and early intervention in multiple and intersecting threats to human security in Ghana.

Educating future game designers to make the game industry more sustainable

Climate IT Hanna Elina Wirman Digital Design Department computer games

12 June, 2023

A multi-disciplinary research group investigates how to make future game developers include sustainability. At the workshop, NASG Un-Jam, held at the IT University of Copenhagen, 23 European students contributed to the project by developing prototypes of environmental and cultural friendly games.

ITU researcher receives grant to enable powerful machine learning in smaller hardware environments

Climate IT Pinar Tozun Computer Science Department Research grants software

16 December, 2022

Associate Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen, Pınar Tözün, has secured 2.7 million kroner from the Novo Nordisk Foundation to develop novel mechanisms to get more value out of data using the computing power of small devices.

New research center focuses on IT aspects of the green transition

Climate IT Steffen Dalsgaard About ITU Research Events

11 November, 2022

On December 7, the IT University of Copenhagen is launching the new Center for Climate IT which will examine the complex relationship between digitalization and climate change. Join us for an opening reception and panel debate.

Funding: ITU researchers examine cultural dynamics in the age of digitalisation

Climate IT Luca Rossi Vasilieos-Spyridon Vlassis Business IT Department Digital Design Department Research big data data science digitization ethics grants

1 June, 2022

Associate Professor at Digital Design, Luca Rossi, and Postdoc at Business IT, Vasilieos-Spyridon Vlassis, have secured 4.6 million kroner from the European CHANSE programme for their respective research projects in digital innovation and social and cultural dynamics.

New research may help improve Copenhagen’s bicycle infrastructure

Climate IT Computer Science Department Research

28 March, 2022

A newly released research paper shows how network analysis can serve as a cost-efficient support tool for bicycle infrastructure planning. The research has been conducted by analyzing the street network in Copenhagen based on data from OpenStreetMap.

ITU professor takes critical approach to green tech, secures prestigious grant

Climate IT Steffen Dalsgaard Business IT Department Research digitization grants green IT innovation

17 March, 2022

Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Business IT department Steffen Dalsgaard has won the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. The almost two million Euro grant will enable him and his colleagues to critically examine IT and sustainability across the globe.

We need to talk about marine renewable energy

Climate IT Brit Ross Winthereik Research Business IT Department

3 March, 2022

Denmark lacks neither ocean waves nor pioneering scientists and innovators who are dreaming about harnessing energy from them. Professor at IT University of Copenhagen Brit Ross Winthereik, who headed research into initiatives in wave energy innovation around the Atlantic, explains why we are still waiting to see a booming wave energy industry.

Using Minecraft to explore climate change topics with school children

Climate IT Digital Design Department Research computer games

8 February, 2022

Few of the world’s most popular games deal directly with climate issues. However, games can still be used to make gamers think about real world problems, says Associate Professor, Hans-Joachim Backe, who is developing tools for teachers to discuss climate issues based on for example Minecraft.

Digitizing the Amazon: How to use the rainforest without ruining it

Climate IT Research Business IT Department

8 February, 2022

There is a lot of hope that the digital, material, and biological innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution will help us save the Amazon rainforest. However, the real impact of the new bio economy is yet to be revealed. Researchers from the IT University will study the outcome of Amazônia 4.0.

ITU researcher secures prestigious fellowship to empower citizen cooperation

Climate IT Luca Maria Aiello Computer Science Department Research algorithms grants green IT social media

7 December, 2021

Associate Professor of Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen, Luca Maria Aiello, has won the Carlsberg Foundation’s prestigious Young Researcher Fellowship for a project that aims to facilitate citizen coordination in the face of global challenges such as climate change.

CDV Podcast: Could your cat be used to store your family photos?

Climate IT Business IT Department Research data storage

1 December, 2021

The incomprehensible amounts of digital data we store is a real climate burden. In the Center for Digital Welfare's podcast, host Anders Kjærulff and Assistant Professor James Maguire, discuss research initiatives on environmentally friendly data storage.

Podcast: When the Citizen Assembly on the climate area met four politicians online

Climate IT Business IT Department Research

9 November, 2021

The Citizen Assembly on the climate area was promoted as a digital meeting room in which a representative sample of the Danish population would have a say in the Danish Government’s political climate strategies. In Center for Digital Welfare, Associate Professor, Irina Papazu, reflects on the outcome.

Green PhD: Words alone cannot save the planet

Climate IT Research Computer Science Department green IT

9 November, 2021

In urban areas, bicycling is one of the most environmentally sustainable mode of transportation. PhD fellow at the IT University of Copenhagen, Anastassia Vybornova, uses computing skills to create the basis for better bicycle infrastructures in cities.

Sustainable initiatives or greenwashing? New research project examines sustainability efforts in the private sector

Climate IT Research Business IT Department

3 November, 2021

Danish companies are legally obligated to document sustainability initiatives in their annual reports. A new research project will create a basis for studies and quality assurance of the legal requirement. Postdoc, Michael Hockenhull, explains how and why.

ITU sustainability research in the Amazon awarded grant from IRFD

Climate IT Business IT Department Research grants green IT

15 October, 2021

The project, Amazon 4.0, will examine the impact of technological sustainability measures in the Amazon. The researchers have been awarded close to 2.9 million DKK from the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

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