A strategic commitment to sustainability at all levels within a university or college is a fundamental prerequisite to an institution's overall success. All research that examines the implementation of sustainability bears the same conclusion: the commitment of the leaders within the organisation is critical, as is encouraging and supporting staff at all levels to be leaders!
This presentation on 'Lessons on Engaging Management from the NUS' was given as part of a morning workshop at the EAUC-Scotland Conference 2015 by Jamie...
This presentation on 'The Challenge of Engaging Senior (and Middle) Managers' was given as part of a morning workshop at the EAUC-Scotland Conference 2015 by...
This presentation on 'Walking the Sustainable Talk' was given as the opening keynote at the EAUC-Scotland Conference 2015 by Professor Dave Reay, Professor of Carbon...
The 2015 Green Gown Awards Winners’ Brochure which explores the journeys all these institutions have taken.
The Winners' Brochure for the International Green Gown Awards 2015 which brings together the finalists and winners of these Awards which are growing globally.
Lucy has just completed her second year of university, during this time she has demonstrated a great passion and commitment to sustainability in the JCU Community and Cairns...
Colin has collaboratively led the curriculum development processes at La Trobe to help embed sustainability across all undergraduate courses – an Australian first
Professor Grant Guilford is the current Vice Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington. Since taking the role in February 2014 he has already made a significant impact in...
The Sustainability Program has grown since 2006 to include initiatives across leadership and governance, facilities and operations, learning teaching and research, and...
Australia’s fastest growing University of the last decade is now one of Australia’s most sustainable Universities
According to Nordic universities, sustainable development should be further integrated not only to campuses but also to teaching. The results of the sustainable development...
Need a little animation in your day? We promise it counts as work! Check out the 4:37 animated video created by Sustainability Illustrated and based on the work of...
The HESI was created by a consortium of UN entities (UNESCO, UN-DESA, UNEP, Global Compact and UNU) in the run up to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development...
The collective voice of the world’s universities, colleges and students must be heard at COP21 when the United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place in Paris,...
Samantha Price, Sustainability Manager, Plymouth University emailed EAUC-Members asking if anyone uses ISO 26000 guidance. EAUC Member Responses Members can download the...
The Higher Education Carbon Challenge report gives an overview some of the trends in carbon emissions and carbon performance of UK higher education institutions.
In August 2015 Amy Hill, Travel Plan Co-Ordinator, University of Exeter emailed the Transport Planning Community of Practice to ask Members if they could offer any ideas or...
Rosemary has gone beyond her core role around operational sustainability at London College of Fashion. She is the first person in the role and has quickly developed...
In the five years as Director of Sustainability Development at CCCU, Peter has been described, by an ex. colleague, as taking the institution from “zero to hero”...
Alex has embarked on a mission, to converge a place of flourishing learning with being an ‘Edible Campus’. With no formal pedagogical role, he is teaching staff and...
Dr Aled Jones is the inaugural Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) at Anglia Ruskin University. Over the past four years he has built the GSI from a good idea...
Nicola’s “green wins” since starting at Goldsmiths in September of 2012 include reaching the gold standard in Green Impact for the Estates & Facilities...
S-Lab Project Coordinator, King’s College London Martin Farley has helped pioneer innovative projects in a largely untapped area of sustainability - laboratories. To...
First in a new role at the University of Warwick, David has supported and championed projects, ideas and initiatives to improve the impact the University has on its environment
Director of Sustainability, University of Worcester Under Katy’s leadership the University of Worcester has developed and maintained an excellent performance profile,...
When Serena started working at the College in 2009, sustainability was not a core priority. Initially Serena concentrated her work on creating policies, plans and procedures to...
Student (Fine Art 2nd year) - Goldsmiths, University of London Margaret takes environmental conservation to heart. She is one of the more genuinely environmentally...
Whilst studying Buying and Merchandising at London College of Fashion, Charlotte created the first sustainability society and volunteered on textiles income generation projects...
Anja has been a one-girl volunteering legend at LSBU this year! She started off by becoming an LSBU Green Bean Society member and provided over 400 hours of volunteering time...
Vincent’s roll is to provide tools, solutions and the attitude to make his students and colleagues conscious of how much impact, as individuals and as groups we all create...
Sustainable Pedagogy incorporating 'social, economic, environmental and cultural' values, is central to Gwenllian’s role, in Higher Education; enabling students...
Luci believes that to stimulate genuine and lasting change people need to experience how their actions make a difference. Recognising that future leadership demands confident...
Through Professor Jeremy Sanders’ inspirational leadership, the University of Cambridge’s approach to embedding sustainability into the institution’s thinking,...
Dr Jane Davidson established INSPIRE in 2012 to lead a system-based approach throughout UWTSD to deliver educational pathways promoting learning, environmental and social...
Frances Corner has been Head of London College of Fashion since 2005. Throughout this time she has worked to embed the importance of using education to transform lives across...
Since 2007 the university has been addressing sustainability across the whole institution; sustainability is cited in the Strategic Plan as a core value of the University.
Sustainability is about making changes and inspiring a new approach to the way we live in the world, use its resources and interact with the rest of the ecosystem.
Edinburgh College is adopting a holistic approach to sustainability and carbon reduction. The college developed its first Carbon Management Plan in 2014
Saving the planet, saving cash, shrinking the College’s carbon footprint whilst, at the same time, stimulating staff and learners’ imagination in terms of...
INSPIRE@UWTSD – an institutional approach to delivering sustainability through our culture, curriculum, campuses and community UWTSD aims to develop reflective...
The “Let’s Green SWC” initiative takes a holistic approach to sustainability across the institution by seeking to identify and address the impacts of...
Based on the PRI roundtables and research, the PRI in conjunction with steering committee members identified six areas for engagement, including corporate responses to human...
The PRI launched The PRI Climate Change Strategy Project in response to asset owner interest in understanding whether and how to set a portfolio-wide emissions reduction goal.
The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is pleased to release the 2015 Annual Report, which outlines the progress of the initiative over the last year to deliver on its...
Coleg Sir Gar is part of the University of Wales: Trinity Saint David Group, which has created a radical dual sector offer to meet regional skills needs in South West Wales -...
In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Caroline Overy (Engagement Manager) is working on projects to engage staff and students in sustainability and social responsibility...
Member responses to a request to the Energy & Water Community of Practice about carbon and energy management plans
Charles Sturt University (CSU) is committed to sustainability and is actively working to both reduce the impact of its operations and to act as a leader to engage staff,...
In 2010, TAFE SA Regional launched its GreenPrint for Workplace Education for Environmental Sustainability.
Sara Lynch, Environmental Manager, Queens University Belfast emailed the Members’ network asking Members to share their experiences of the Green Flag Award. EAUC Member...
Presentation from the Sustainable Campus Excellence Awards 2015, Freie Universitat Berlin.
How is sustainability structured at your university? Victoria Johnsen, Environmental & Cultural Change Manager, University of Surrey emailed the Members’ network...
Since establishing its Sustainability Task Force in 2009 La Trobe University has appointed a Pro Vice Chancellor (Sustainability) and developed sound governance and management...
Sustainable Development - Better managers and leaders for a better society.
In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Elena Rivilla Lutterkort (Sustainability Officer) is bringing creativity to solutions on sustainability in her role at the London...
Jon Emmett, Sustainability Projects Officer, at London School of Economics and Political Science emailed the Members’ network asking for a quick straw poll of who...
Katrina Henderson, Assistant Director Environment, Cardiff University, emailed the Wales Regional group to ask who was accredited to either of the Management Standards ISO14001...
In this Meet a Member career profile, see how Gillian Menzies (Director of Studies) is inspiring the next generation through research and enquiry in her role at Heriot-Watt...
Economic, social and environmental sustainability is about assuring the future through developing resilience and adaptability in staff and students, through building...
The University of West London has invested £50 million to improve students' learning and social experience as part of Future Campus, an environmentally sustainable...
The Greenwich Sustainability Hub is a partnership project between the Student’s Union university of Greenwich, and the University of Greenwich. Its aim is to...
It is the ‘business’ of a university to offer learning opportunities which will equip students for their future lives and careers. In order to do this,...
Coventry University’s School of Art and Design have established a social enterprise ‘ReFreshed UnLtd’, upcycling counterfeit clothes donated from Coventry...
The Works is an employment and skills centre established by the University of Manchester in 2011 with the objective of raising skill levels and improving employment...
Fruit Routes brings staff, students and the local community together to grow, harvest, share and create an edible campus using creative and innovative methods of engagement. A...
The University of Sunderland has been utilising the WARP-it resource, reuse portal now for nearly three years, however it has been the engagement in the City wide Sunderland...
London College of Fashion’s Widening Participation Unit has nurtured a relationship with St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney since 2011. Widening Participation have lead...
Local Wisdom is a research project led by University of the Arts London’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion with a network of seven universities in the UK, USA, Canada,...
The Making Project was a collaboration between University of the Arts London’s Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion and global, leading brand, Nike...
London College of Fashion has installed an innovative new timer, which reduces electricity consumption through limiting the time which irons are left on. This technological...
The annual ‘Blackout’ at the University of Southampton started in 2012, involving between 250 & 300 students and staff auditing and switching off unnecessary...
Vertical greening systems are an important component of Green Infrastructure – possibly the only cost-effective approach to coping with some of the immense challenges...
The £5.1M Lancaster China Catalyst Programme provides UK companies with a significant package of support to develop R&D partnerships with Chinese counterparts in...
The University of Reading £250,000 energy efficiency overhaul of fume cupboards in 2 large teaching laboratories is achieving substantial savings of £90,500 and 343...
The Sustainability Team at the University of Reading works with local bus company Reading Buses to provide an excellent service for staff, students and visitors. Responsiveness...
This is one of the UK’s first University Training Schools (UTS) which is being developed in partnership between the DfE and the University of Birmingham allowing teachers...
This new build facility houses specialist research into plant science and food security and incorporates greenhouse, laboratories, preparation rooms, office accommodation and...
My Sustainable Print is the new staff print service at The University of Sheffield. It is delivered through a network of energy efficient multi-functional print devices. It...
The Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia have developed and managed a number of investment vehicles to assist SME businesses. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund...
The Adapt Low Carbon Group at the University of East Anglia manages the InCrops Programme, a 7 year £5.2 m project co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. The...
The Royal Agricultural University installed a 500kW biomass boiler in 2011, which replaced carbon intensive and inefficient oil boilers to provide heat to four buildings (both...
Sustainable Supply Chains through Innovation (SUSCIN) was led by CfSD between 2009-2012. SUSCIN aimed to build capacity of SME suppliers of eco-innovative...
Phil Baillie, Safety & Environment Advisor, London Metropolitan University emailed the London Region network to ask about EMS Accreditation. EAUC Member Responses...
The University of Sunderland successfully bid for £25,000 HEFCE funding in 2012 from UnLtd, the leading provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the UK. The...
The Julian Study Centre (JSC) has raised the bar for sustainability on a campus which has a reputation for energy efficient award winning buildings, and is the first aiming for...
The Enterprise Centre (TEC) will be the UK’s greenest commercial building, targeting both BREEAM Outstanding and Passivhaus Certification. At £13.4m and with 3,400m2...
The Connecting Children and Nature Network is a cross-disciplinary partnership between Canterbury Christ Church University and a range of local organisations (including schools,...
In this EAUC Member Spotlight, see how the University of Chester are actively engaging with students, staff and the wider local community.
The School Governor Initiative at the University of Manchester encourages and engages staff and former students to contribute to the improvement of state schools by becoming...
Canterbury Christ Church University has been developing environmental perspectives, not only in conjunction with the local community, but also with partners overseas....
The £16million University of Strathclyde Urban Energy Project is transformational – acting as a catalyst for collaborative low carbon heat network development with...
These are the member responses on environmental/sustainability committee examples sent to EAUC Members in April 2015.
In 2014, the University of Nottingham offered its first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) called ‘Sustainability, Society and You’. With an agenda to support...
London School of Economics and Political Science’s (LSE) Sustainable Projects Fund included a rolling prize-fund to support student and staff-led projects to enhance...
The Scottish Government produced a guide on Better Business and how to improve staff performance based on experiences from local authorities, support agencies and businesses....
The Institute of Sustainability Solutions Research (ISSR) at Plymouth University is the single point of contact for organisations wanting to collaborate with the University...
The Future Factory at Nottingham Trent University uses a range of academic/research staff, students, graduate placements and specialist product design and prototyping...
The Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) is housed in a £10.5million refurbishment of an 18th Century Old Royal High School at the University of Edinburgh....
Newcastle University's Travel and Expenses Policy is led by Procurement and is filtered down to staff through management. The University is hopeful to see an improvement...
Fair Trade Policy and Fair Trade Steering Group Terms of Reference from Bournemouth University