diff --git a/.readthedocs.yml b/.readthedocs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..73f44564
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.readthedocs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# we just follow https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config-file/v2.html
+
+version: 2
+
+build:
+  os: ubuntu-22.04
+  tools:
+    python: "3.9"
+
+sphinx:
+  configuration: doc/conf.py
+
+python:
+   install:
+   - requirements: requirements/doc_requirements.txt
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index d81f33ab..1f4d6aa1 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def __getattr__(cls, name):
 # -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
 
 project = 'emukit'
-copyright = '{}, Amazon.com'.format(datetime.now().year)
+copyright = '{}, Emukit authors'.format(datetime.now().year)
 
 exec(open("../emukit/__version__.py").read())
 version = __version__ # noqa: variable __version__ is defined in exec above
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def __getattr__(cls, name):
 #
 # This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
 # Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
-language = None
+language = 'en'
 
 # The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
 pygments_style = 'sphinx'
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def __getattr__(cls, name):
 
 # -- intersphinx extension --
 # Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
-intersphinx_mapping = {'https://docs.python.org/': None}
+intersphinx_mapping = {'python': ('https://docs.python.org/3', None)}
 
 # -- nbsphinx extension --
 # Allow notebooks to have errors when generating docs
diff --git a/readthedocs.yml b/readthedocs.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1afb6e70..00000000
--- a/readthedocs.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-build:
-    image: latest
-
-python:
-    version: 3.6
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements/doc_requirements.txt b/requirements/doc_requirements.txt
index 29430a60..8e46b2fb 100644
--- a/requirements/doc_requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/doc_requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 Sphinx>=1.7.5
 nbsphinx>=0.3.4
 sphinx-autodoc-typehints>=1.3.0
-sphinx-rtd-theme==0.4.1
+sphinx-rtd-theme>=0.4.1