The Institute for Environment and Sustainable Development (IMDO) is the University of Antwerp's interdisciplinary research platform for fundamental and applied research at the intersection of environment and sustainable development.
IMDO develops scientifically rigorous, socially relevant responses to environmental and sustainability challenges — challenges that are rarely straightforward, and almost always shaped by complexity, uncertainty and competing values. Meeting them demands more than expertise in a single field. IMDO brings together the natural, applied, human and medical sciences in an integrated approach that reflects the full dimension of the problems it sets out to solve.
As a catalyst within the University of Antwerp, IMDO bridges research domains and translates scientific insight into outcomes that matter — for society, for policy, and for the economy.