The Just Transition Hub

The Just Transition Hub is a multimillion state-of-the-art virtual and physical collaborative facility in the heart of the James Hutton Institute’s Craigiebuckler campus to drive engagement, training, and innovation around nature-based net-zero solutions in the northeast and across Scotland.

As well as acting as an incubator for “spin-out” companies, which can draw from the institute’s expertise.

The Just Transition Hub has been funded by the Scottish Government’s Just Transition Fund. This net-zero innovation hub has a strong land-use and agriculture focus. The completion of this hub is due in 2025. 

The plans of this site currently involve a public café, training facilities, an auditorium, a 360-degree immersive space, and a virtual landscape theatre. This facility aims to bring communities, scientists, agencies, spin-in and spin-out companies, and private finance in the northeast, in person and virtually, using cutting-edge collaborative tools. This hub is expected to create 200 new jobs and draw around £1.6million into the local economy.  


This hub is expected to create 200 new jobs and draw around £1.6million into the local economy.  

Lee-Ann Sutherland, The James Hutton Institute

Contact for more information

Lee-Ann Sutherland

Director of International Land Use Study Centre
Based in Aberdeen
E: lee-ann.sutherland@hutton.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)344 928 5428 (*)
Prof Lee-Ann Sutherland is Director of the James Hutton Institute’s International Land Use Study Centre. The innovation centre reflects the Institute’s a vision for inclusive, open science that engages the public, stakeholder groups and scientists with a wide range of expertise in tackling the urgent problems of our time: climate change, food and water security, biodiversity preservation and One Health.
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