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How emissions from traveling to Connects 2025 (Helsinki) were compensated.

An event like U!REKA Connects implies hundreds of participants traveling by air. To compensate their share of the greenhouse gas emissions caused by the travel to/from Helsinki U!REKA Connects in 2025, U!REKA partners have each taken steps, either through a certified off-set organization, or as a direct donation to a project that promotes emission reduction or carbon capture. An overview.

Amsterdam UAS has purchased offsets from Trees4Travel, generated by the Mozambique Mangrove Reforestation project. This project aims at restoring and conserving mangrove forests in Mozambique.

IPL has purchased offsets from The Gold Standard Foundation generated by the Ceará Renewable Energy Project in  Brazil. Project Ceará, the first Gold Standard-certified project in Brazil, is embracing clean and sustainable technologies and paving the way for a greener, more sustainable future while addressing environmental and health challenges in one of Brazil’s economically poorest regions.

VSB-TUO has donated to the Czech branch of Plant for the Planet, which was founded by a student from Ostrava: a global initiative empowering youth to fight climate change by planting trees, restoring forests, and promoting climate justice.

Frankfurt UAS has purchased offsets from Trees4Travel, generated by these projects:

  • Clean electricity from solar power systems in Senegal. Senegalese households are able to use reliable and sustainable energy through the whole year.
  • India: with efficient wood-fired gasification stoves Indian families are able to cook smokefree and they reduce the CO2 emissions.
  • In Mali a project of rural electrification, based on green energy, remote villages have access to electricity
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HOGENT has donated to the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation, a non-governmental organization that promotes the protection of old growth forests. When searching for appropriate sites, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation focuses on old forests that haven’t been cut and host a high degree of biodiversity. Generally speaking, the trees in a suitable forest represent numerous species and different life stages from saplings to full-grown trees and decaying ones. In order to find suitable sites, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation collaborates with public authorities represented by the regional environmental centres.

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