Over 20,000 trees planted

One of the Green Office's first projects was the establishment of a sustainable search engine on all computers in the university administration. In collaboration with the administrative IT department and the Digitization Office, the Green Office compared sustainable search engines and tested their suitability for everyday administrative use. A test phase of three month certified that the Ecosia search engine is well suited for administrative operations. Ecosia has now been installed as the standard search engine since October 1, 2021. At Ecosia, the profits generated by advertising are used to plant trees.

With over one million search queries by members of the University of Jena, 20,543 trees have already been planted (as of October 28, 2023).