KEKO CLUSTER
CLUSTER ON ADAPTATION TO AND MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Piret Vacht
Associate Professor of Environmental Management @ School of Natural Sciences and Health at Tallinn University
Areas of expertise:
Urban ecology and nature-based solutions, nature conservation management, soil science, environmental management, and environmental communication.
Piret Vacht (PhD in ecology 2020) is an Associate Professor of Environmental Management at Tallinn University. Her research and teaching areas include urban ecology and nature-based solutions, nature conservation management, soil science, environmental management, and environmental communication. In addition, she contributes to several microdegree programmes, focusing on environmental management, sustainability, and environmental health. She has experience in developing educational materials for both general education schools and adult learners. She has also enhanced her expertise in environmental communication through an Erasmus+ exchange at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).
Cluster related projects:
Education and Youth Board. Developing Green Skills Horizontally. In the framework of the RRF scheme „Green Skills for supporting green transition in businesses“ (2025-2026)
Gogreen Routes - Resilient Optimal Urban natural, Technological and Environmental Solutions. Horizon 2020 Call: H2020-SC5-2018-2019-2020 (2020-2024)
Human-nature interactions in the city: establishing an "environmental behavior" research group and network at the University of Tallinn (2019-2023)
International INTERREG project “Augmented Urbans” (2014-2020)