KEKO CLUSTER
CLUSTER ON ADAPTATION TO AND MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Katrin Männik
Researcher in Sustainable Education @ School of Educational Sciences and Head of the Environmental Change Cluster KEKO at Tallinn University
Areas of expertise:
Sustainable Education and Development, lifelong learning through the development of horisontal green skills and capacities, climate and innovation awareness, as well as research in educational and social sciences, innovation, and science policy.
Katrin holds a PhD in Economics (University of Tartu, University of Sussex). She is a researcher in sustainable education and a member of the SustainERA research group for sustainable futures, the head of the interdisciplinary environmental change cluster KEKO, and the director of the Baltic University Programme’s Estonian Centre.
She develops lifelong learning programmes, including microdegree programmes (green transition management, circular bioeconomy, sustainable human resource management). Previously, she has led Tallinn University’s Open Academy, worked in the private sector (Technopolis Group) as a consultant, and in the public sector as a policymaker and analyst (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonian Academy of Sciences).
She contributes to the development of lifelong learning as a member of the Executive Committee of the European University Continuing Education Network (EUCEN) and supports the development of innovation systems and policies as a board member of the European Future Innovation System Centre (EFIS).
Cluster related projects:
SustainERA. ERA Chair: HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01. Member of the research core team. (2025-2029)
Biodegradable Packaging Materials Advancing Circularity, Sustainability & Ecoinnovation. EUROPEAN HEALTH AND DIGITAL EXECUTIVE AGENCY. HORIZON-CL4-2024. TLU as partner principal investigator (2025-2029)
The State Shared Service Centre. The Framework Research Partnership for Ministries to Achieve the EU 2030 Climate Aims. Principal investigator (2023-2025)
Education and Youth Board. Developing Green Skills Horizontally. In the framework of the RRF scheme „Green Skills for supporting green transition in businesses“ (2023-2026)
Horizon Europe Programme, EIT HE Initiative: Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education “Fostering Knowledge Transfer from universities to business – innovation to unicorn”. Principal Investigator for Tallinn University workload. (2020-2023)