Other Event Archive

• Learning Partnerships for Sustainability: Learning for Sustainable Futures Annual Event – 2nd June 2016

  We are delighted to invite you to our annual Learning for Sustainable Futures event on Thursday 2nd June in Cheltenham. LSF is the University’s professional support and pedagogical innovation scheme, a collaboration between the Academic Development Unit and Sustainability Team, to embed fut...

• The role of education institutions in tackling climate change – 13th May 2016

  How should the education sector in the UK respond to the challenge of climate change? What are the opportunities to put the sector at the forefront of action around the Paris agreement? This event will address three cross-cutting themes that are central to delivering a low carbon transition: ...

• Climate Assembly Event – 9th May 2016

  On May 9th, ShareAction - a UK-based charity promoting Responsible Investment - and the University and College Union (UCU) are holding a climate assembly. They will be discussing the steps the pension fund, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), is taking to tackle climate change. USS inve...

• ISO 14001: Transition to the new 2015 standard – 26th April 2016

  ISO 14001 is the most widely used environmental management system in the world. A new edition of the standard was published in 2015 which introduced a range of significant changes, many of which will be new to small and medium sized businesses. The changes have made the standard a much more strat...

• The Future of Waste Management & Recycling Conference and Exhibition (London) – 26th April 2016

  FREE PLACES for 20 members of the EAUC  to attend. The UK is rubbish at disposing waste, dumping around 50% of its municipal waste into landfill sites, compared to just 1% buried by Germany. According to the Government’s 2014 Waste from Households statistics, recycling rates in England have...

• The Future of Pensions Conference – 21st April 2016

  A limited number of EAUC Members are invited to attend this Conference free of charge. Please see the information below for how to register for the FREE PLACES. Millions of workers are not saving enough to provide an adequate pension, Association of Consulting Actuaries’ 2015 pension trends...

• Biomass Boiler Workshop and Tour – 20th April 2016

  Free event Cranfield University is celebrating a successful heating season operating its new biomass boiler. To feedback on our experience we will be hosting an event with a workshop and tour. Attendees will have a chance to learn more about this project with presentations from Cranfield staff, F...

• CIBSE Technical Symposium 2016 – 14th April 2016 to 15th April 2016

  CIBSE's sixth annual Technical Symposium will be taking place at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh from 14-15 April 2016. It aims to encourage the participation of both young and experienced industry practitioners, universities, research organisations, industry and others to share experiences and de...

• International Student Sustainability Research Symposium – 15th April 2016

  We are pleased to inform Final Year Undergraduates that on Friday 15 April 2016, the University of Southampton will be hosting the UKs First International Student Sustainability Research Symposium. This event will be exhibiting excellence in undergraduate research, giving you the opportunity to pres...

• Symposium on Sustainable Development Research at Universities in the United Kingdom – 5th April 2016 to 6th April 2016

  Many universities in the United Kingdom perform high quality research on matters related to sustainable development. Yet, there are relatively few events where a multidisciplinary overview of research efforts and projects has taken place, and where researchers from across the spectrum of the natural...

• S-Lab: How to Minimise Laboratory Energy Use and Environmental Impact – 3rd March 2016

  See our Dropbox folder for the latest flyer/agenda, or book a place here: This interactive workshop is based on the laboratory experience of bodies such as: •The Green Campus initiative of the University of Copenhagen. •The Green Labs Program of the University of Colorado, Boulder (...

• S-Lab - The Effective Laboratory: Scotland – 1st March 2016

  Latest flyer and agenda can be viewed here. Book tickets here. A one day S-Lab conference is being held at the new University of Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) on March 1st in Glasgow. It will have one keynote on the TIC design - and key issues in achieving both HE/industry...

• S-Lab: How to Minimise Laboratory Energy Use and Environmental Impact – 29th February 2016

  This workshop takes advantage of the UK visit of Kathy Ramirez Aguilar, Green Labs Program Manager at the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder) – a campus and university that is a US leader on many sustainability topics. Kathy will discuss: •Engaging scientists and growing a "gr...

• Carbon Trust Public Sector Conference 2016 – 10th February 2016

  This event is only open to those working for a public sector organisation including central and local government, the NHS, the emergency services, schools, further education establishments and universities, and housing associations. Key note speaker: Rt Hon Dame Tessa Jowell 2016 Themes inc...

• 2016 - What’s Trending in Sustainability? – 29th January 2016

  Over the years, the definition of "sustainability" has adapted and evolved, and now often means many things to different people. Some see it as having a focus on environmental impacts, some social impacts and others economic impacts, and those that live, eat and breathe sustainability, a combination...

• ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 Revisions Webinar – 21st January 2016

  For many years, the internationally-recognised ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 standards have provided the basis for efficient quality management and environmental management for a wide variety of organisations. In September 2015, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) issued the updated...

• Powerful Assessment in Higher Education – Teaching and Learning Event – 15th January 2016

  UNU RCE Severn is delighted to be hosting Prof Geoff Scott from University of Western Sydney, as part of an international seminar series for his National Senior Teaching Fellowship, funded by the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching. This project is exploring the outcomes and assessments need...

• Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on marine litter – 26th October 2015 to 20th December 2015

  UNEP is launching the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on marine litter to raise awareness against marine litter and promote solutions to plastic pollution in our oceans. This MOOC is offered in collaboration with the Open Universiteit in the Netherlands and incorporates case studies that ...

• 2015 Global University Climate Forum – 6th December 2015

  A global climate action workshop for university students IARU is pleased to announce the 2015 Global University Climate Forum, which will take place during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP21) in Paris in December 2015. The Forum embodies the...

• Make your University pension fund more responsible – 3rd December 2015

  USS: Step Up seeks to get the Universities Superannuation Scheme - the UK’s largest occupational pension fund with almost £50bn - to step up and show global leadership in responsible investment, particularly around the crucial issue of climate change. On the 3rd December the decision makers...