The role of education is to be a foundation and driver for building a better and more sustainable future. Following the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, education institutions need to unite to deliver the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development Global Action Plan. We all have a commitment to bring about change.
Working closely with our international partners, we aim to bring together resources from education institutions across the world. These partnerships provide us with the opportunities to radically increase the sharing of the Southern and Northern Hemispheres understanding on what sustainability means for an education institution.
Partnering with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Universities Partnership on Environment and Sustainability (GUPES) we bring together the latest news, resources and case studies across the world.
“Universities and colleges have to take the lead on a global scale to ensure our students have the skills and knowledge to ensure a social, economic and environmentally responsible future for us all,” Iain Patton, CEO, EAUC.
The Platform for Sustainability Performance in Education brings together organisations which have created sustainability assessment tools designed to support universities and colleges around the world.
Along with our sister organisations, AASHE (USA) and ACTS (Australasia), we are dedicated to sharing the knowledge and experience of education institutions. The International Green Gown Awards are testament to this, which brings together the good practice that is taking place globally and sharing this knowledge.
We encourage you to explore and get inspired.
Burgundy School of Business was the Winner for its Citizen Action Program to commit into local communities.
A PhD student conducting research (between Brazil and Germany) on barriers to innovation and sustainability in universities has requested researchers' participation in...
Robin Saha of University of Montana wins the Thomas Ehlrich award for his services of connecting his research and students to sustainability issues within the local communities....
Penn State University recently dedicated $875,000 as part of their reinvention fund (over $700,000 to academic/operational staff and over $100,000 to students) to transform Penn...
Portland State University has released a book that provides a toolbox for campus-community collaboration on sustainability, which they proudly back with actions and projects...
Harvard University has made a very exciting announcement about dramatically strengthening their Living Laboratory. They have launched a 3-year course which allows students to...
The YouthXchange Green Skills and Lifestyles guidebook, which focuses on the challenges, opportunities and good practices related to green economies and societies, is the second...
Trina Innes, Chief Sustainability Officer - University of Alberta Trina Innes joined the University of Alberta (UAlberta) in 2009 as the inaugural chief sustainability...
SEEDS Sustainability Program Over the past 16 years, UBC’s SEEDS (Social Ecological Economic Development Studies) Sustainability Program engaged over 6,000...
Catalyzing a culture of sustainability at McGill University with the Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) The Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) is a crown jewel of McGill...
Finalist USIL, Shaping entrepreneurs through sustainability In Peru, people from the outskirts of Lima have limited access to high quality education due to...
WINNER Social and Environmental Innovation Projects for Ecuador (PISA) Proyecto de Innovación Socio-Ambiental (PISA) pursues social-environmental innovation...
Ecocampus Uninorte Program: between the knowledge and action to obtain the knowhow Highly Commended Ecocampus Uninorte program is a strategy created at Universidad...
Finalist “Mi Patita Ideal” The group “CAMBIEN”, from the Faculty of Architecture of the National University of the Center of Peru, related to...
National advocacy and management of environmental indicators in the Costa Rican Network of Sustainable Educational Institutions - REDIES By joining REDIES, each...
Challenge Lab In the Challenge Lab students learn to explore, define and act upon global challenges that will transform the way we live together on this planet. The...
Using art to promote sustainability: the “Dancing Solar Flowers” project Many of the projects implemented by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice are to make...
Manduyog Biodiversity Conservation Program The Aklan State University nestles at the foot of the majestic Manduyog Hill which is naturally blessed with a cool and green...
Solid Waste Management: The ATENEO Way As a Jesuit university, Xavier participates in the Jesuit mission of reconciliation with God, reconciliation with others, and...
Local Fishers protecting Nemo and Friends: an effort in Coastal Resource Management of Talim Bay COSCA’s effort focused on a consultative process of listening to the...
International Green Gown Award Winner Centre for Sustainable Technology and Development (CSTD) Our climate-smart landscapes: watershed protection using agroforestry...
Development and implementation of a solar PV outreach training module for capacity building in East Africa Highly Commended Strathmore Energy Research Centre (SERC)...
In October 2011, Bryce Hutchinson, Senior Building Information Officer, from the Facilities Management Operations department of the University of Technology in Sydney approached...
The Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) has provided a letter of support for the Latin American Universities for Fair Trade initiative.
The Courtauld Commitment 2025 is an ambitious voluntary agreement that brings together organisations from across the food system – from producer to consumer.
This is a highly beneficial and interesting benchmarking report on Sustainability and Responsibility education by Katariina Heikkilä, University of Turku: “A new...
At The University of Iceland, recycling has since 2009 played an important role in greening the university. The University of Iceland has recently made some changes to its...
The Campus Forest project aspires to build, within the same campus, a display of ecosystems characteristic to the biogeographic environment of the Spanish University of Cordoba....
Benefiting from Biodiversity In 2010 University College Cork (UCC) became the first 3rd level educational institution in the world to be accredited with the prestigious...
Groupe ESC Troyes and EPF engineers School launched the Master Innovation, Creation and Entrepreneurship in partnership with the Technopole de l'Aube in Champagne
The associative and extracurricular life of students is led by the Office for Students which brings together 16 associations and offers comprehensive support for students on...
For nearly 10 years, Telecom Bretagne has had a "step by step" approach that has proven very effective in terms of sustainable development and territorial roots
The Catholic Institute of Paris has set up a "disability governance" fully integrated into the strategy of the campus, whose guidelines are: "Serve, Train,...
Part of the ambition of the School of Ponts Paris Tech to "be the world reference for research, innovation and training in key areas of sustainable development", the...
The club DD "Vert'Vet" of ENVT contributing for several years to the realization of projects in favor of biodiversity (botany, aquatic, ornithological and...
Université Laval has been engaged since 2008 in a comprehensive approach to sustainable development, and has significant results: 38% of greenhouse gas emissions, 19% of water...
The "kitchen garden and feeder" in partnership with the city of Beauvais, Picardy DRAAF gives the ability to people in precarious situations to garden and cook from...
Universities have been identified as being critical in developing sustainability - focused skillsets and mindsets (UNESCO, 2004; UNCSD, 2012). A UK-based survey further...
Providing a training pathway for lecturers which is aimed at the implementation of sustainable development in their classes.
In connection with specific societal challenges (food, raw materials, poverty, diversity, etc.) we offer students levers for implementing ESD at class and school level
In these Honours Classes students are acquainted with biotechnological practice in a biological lab under the direction of Prof. Dr. Robert Zwijnenberg and bio-artist Boo Chapple
A meeting and exploratory pathway which offers students who are interested in sustainable management a unique opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of some inspiring...
A one day conference on 'systems thinking' linked to sustainable development.
Training day for all staff members of the university college about the various themes of sustainability.
Abstract This study is concerned with the analyses of the quality of water in terms of its physical, chemical and biological characteristics; the aquatic resources in terms...
Fiji National University (FNU), Nature Trust of Fiji and Nature Fiji have discussed a project which would see rainforest being protected in the area comprising the Garrick...
University of Wollongong (UOW) has successfully trialled a new method of planting wetland plants in the university pond network. Establishment of plants on pond embankments and...
Professor Mohamed Tahiri I started in 2007 with a Switzerland NGO that specialised in the environment and I worked with a local team for at least one year in an application...
Being still within the UN-decade of biodiversity and still being far from reaching the goals in biodiversity conservation at the same time, the consequences of degrading...
The Lisandro Alvarado University has an Agroecológicas Technology Demonstration Centre (CenecoAgro) for combating desertification. Species have been added to the...