The aim of CUHRE is to create an international research environment that study and boost the population's ecoliteracy – its collective capability and will to make the society life-friendly, sustainable, regenerative and carbon-neutral in partnership with the more-than-human living world.

CUHRE aims to develop and execute research projects that create the essential
new knowledge and pedagogic tools about how ecoliteracy can be fostered among citizens in carbon-intensive northern European countries. CUHRE’s fundamental assumption is twofold:
- that any effective response to the crises will involve a radical change of societies and ways of life
- that education plays a crucial role in both the shaping and reshaping of ideas, practices and behaviour on a societal scale in democratic societies