Other Event Archive

• SPT Travel Plan Seminar “The Definitive Business Case” – 17th February 2011

  Event summary The 2011 SPT Travel Planning Seminar is all about developing ‘’The Definitive Business Case" to support and justify your staff travel plan. In the current economic climate, there is a growing trend to cut or reduce the travel planning budget. This seminar will provide...

• 2011 SPT Travel Planning Seminar "The Definitive Business Case" – 17th February 2011

  Event summary The 2011 SPT Travel Planning Seminar is all about developing ‘’The Definitive Business Case" to support and justify your staff travel plan. In the current economic climate, there is a growing trend to cut or reduce the travel planning budget. This seminar will provid...

• Sustainable Revolution – 8th February 2011

  According to Sir Stuart Rose, Immediate Past Chairman of Marks and Spencer, "In today’s climate, more so than ever, putting sustainability at the very heart of your business is not just the right thing to do ethically, it makes commercial sense too. A sustainable business means a business that...

• Managers Forum - Shared services – 8th February 2011

  Booking details: https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/en/groups/exec/Events/2011/sharedservices.aspx Booking deadline: Friday 14 January 2011 The Government has long been an advocate of shared services since the NHS/Xansa partnership was established in 2005. David Willetts, in his speech to the Universities ...

• Understanding the barriers & opportunities to improved resource management within English public – 7th February 2011

  Understanding the barriers and opportunities to improved resource management within English public sector bodies Invitation to attend a focus group session with the aim of generating a better understanding of the barriers and opportunities to improved resource management within English public sec...

• The V Factor – 2nd February 2011

  How to use videoconferencing to: · Reduce your organisation’s carbon footprint · Improve productivity · Reduce travel · Save money Videoconferencing is a technology whose time has come. This unique event will combine local and videoconferenced presentations, discussions and research. It...

• Facilitation for Learning for Sustainability – 25th January 2011 to 26th January 2011

  January to March 2011   This unique course brings together facilitation techniques with learning theory, action learning and practice Sustainability is the opportunity for us to live and work differently to develop solutions to present and future problems as a community. This involves social ...

• Government ITC – 25th January 2011

   As technology becomes increasingly important in the delivery of public services, this conference promises to address all of the key issues facing government today, whilst giving in-depth analysis into how ICT can help realise dramatic change within your organisation. The link between reduction i...

• Free Conference - Setting up Bus Services that Serve Your Needs – 3rd December 2010

  The University of Hertfordshire, in conjunction with its bus company (UNO) is holding a free to attend workshop/conference for interested parties to find out about the bus services the company provides for its staff, students and the wider community, which forms part of it Travel Plan Strategy. T...

• Ten+One Closed Loop Economy/Sustainability Conference – 29th November 2010 to 1st December 2010

  Aimed at business leaders and secondary/FE/HE education leaders: The Ten+One conference will be a key opportunity to hear some of the world's leading closed loop economy thinkers. TEN guest lectures around ONE key perspective on the transition to a sustainable economy. The focus is skills, jobs a...

• Sustainable Transport Forum – 30th November 2010

  Getting There - exploring challenges, opportunities and best practice in higher and further education   Are you interested in: • Reducing the carbon footprint of transport activities in your institution? • Improving your knowledge of innovations and best practice in sustainable transpo...

• Integrated Energy 2010 – 25th November 2010

  The future of CHP, district heating and community energy Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA) Annual Conference & Awards   The Combined Heat and Power Association’s flagship annual event focuses on opportunities and challenges facing the CHP and district heating sector and takes the o...

• Greening Data Centres and Storage – 19th November 2010

  Lower College Hall University of St Andrews 19th November 2010 Both HPC and conventional servers, and on-line storage devices, consume large amounts of electricity directly, and typically may use as much again in cooling, power supply equipment and other ‘overhead’ activities. The S...

• "Seeing Futures" Conference – 13th November 2010

  Sustainable Living: can psychological insights resolve the paradox of why we won't do what we must do?   This question is central to the "Seeing Futures" conference at UWE Bristol on 13 November 2010. Speakers at this event will: * take us through an ABC of climate science, including matt...

• Leadership, Education and the Closed Loop Economy – 8th November 2010 to 12th November 2010

  Special EAUC Member rates available. Teachers: Dame Ellen MacArthur, Ken Webster, Ramon Arratia How do we educate for sustainability? What new skills and ways of thinking can help young people and the institutions that work with them prepare for a challenging – and unpredictable – f...

• Sustainable Communities 2010 - Building the Big Society – 11th November 2010

  There are 5 funded/free delegate places (the normal cost being £350) for EAUC members to attend.   Dear EAUC Members, As part of our successful ‘Securing the Future’ series of Conferences, Sustainable Communities 2010: Building the Big Society is our second annual national Confere...

• Ecoliteracy: First principles for radical change – 25th October 2010 to 5th November 2010

  Special EAUC Member rates available. One and two week options Teachers include: Fritjof Capra (by videolink), Gustavo Esteva (by videolink), Stephan Harding, Philip Franses, Satish Kumar, Emily Ryan (course facilitator) Oliver Greenfield, Toni Spencer, Anne Miller Transforming the way we liv...

• DEA NATIONAL CONFERENCE Big Global Society : unlocking social action on global issues – 2nd November 2010

  Why the Big Global Society? The Coalition government has emphasised the importance of the Big Society, but it has focused primarily on local initiatives. To be a truly big society, and to meet the challenges of international poverty and climate change, we need to be a ‘Big Global Society&rsqu...

• BPA University Parking Special Interest Group meeting – 2nd November 2010

    Venue: D/056 Lecture Room, York University Timings: Lunch – 11:45, Meeting starts at 12:45 See Agenda below   To register your attendance or send your apologies please click here. Please note, you should only register your details again if you can no longer attend. Please complete at ...

• Trees ~ Our Most Untapped Agricultural Asset – 26th October 2010

  We have a fantastic line up, speakers & organisations include: Lois Philipps, Duchy College; Organic Research Centre, Elm Farm; John Tucker, Woodland Trust; Adrian Morley, Eden Gardens; Bob Evans, Forestry Commission; Tom Overbury, Royal Agricultural College; Michelle Kerry, The Silvanus Trust; Roge...