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  One day conference on ecological public health and the 3rd sector / social enterprise – 24th June 2014

  One day conference on ecological public health and the 3rd sector / social enterprise at the University of Worcester. Please see the attched flyer for a one day Conference on the 30 June at the University Worcester which will explore 'Ecological Public Health and delivering health improvements to...

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  Innovation in Waste Prevention Fund (IWP) – 23rd June 2014

  This Fund is an £800,000 scheme that will run for two years with grants being awarded in three phrases.  It aims to generate more action to prevent waste at a local level in England and is funded by Defra and run by WRAP. Grants of £5,000 to £50,000 can be applied for - Round 1 was launched in Ma...

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  The Observer Ethical Award won by EAUC Member – 23rd June 2014

  The Great Energy Race, a new category launched this year saw nine shortlisted houses receiving £250 to "slash their energy bills and future-proof their homes in just a few weeks". Tom Yearley, Energy Officer at the University of Reading shone through and won! The Observer Ethical Awards, in assoc...

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  Continuing funding for green projects – 19th June 2014

  Higher Education Institutions are invited to apply to the latest Revolving Green Fund (RGF). The fourth round of the HEFCE and Salix Funding partnership RGF4  was announced on 19th June, with £34 million available from April 2015. The RGF helps universities and colleges to reduce their energy cos...

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  Celebrate the biggest day for positive environmental action! – 5th June 2014

  World Environment Day (WED) is the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment. Over the years it has grown to be a broad, global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated by stakeholders in over 100 countries. It also serve...

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  University of Exeter win for Excellence in Student Leadership at ISCN 2014 Awards – 4th June 2014

  The pressing need for sustainability is one of the society's greatest challenges. For this reason, top-tier universities from across the world have joined forces through the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN), to incorporate sustainability in their teaching,research, and campus operatio...

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  UMBUG Marks 1,000 Members – 27th May 2014

  [Manchester, Thursday 3 April 2014] Today, hundreds of cyclists gathered to celebrate 1,000 members of the University of Manchester’s Bicycle Users’ Group (UMBUG), making it the biggest in any University across the UK. Dr. Michael Bane, UMBUG Chair, together with University dignitarie...

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  Launching Whole Earth - a new exhibition from Hard Rain – 27th May 2014

  If you were at the EAUC Annual Conference, you'd already know about the launch of latest exhibition from the Hard Rain Project - WHOLE EARTH? Dom Anderson, Vice President (Society and Citizenship), NUS announced the launch of a 2015 exhibition to help the planet’s students plot their own su...

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  Competition for paper reduction ideas with a chance to win up to £1000 – 21st May 2014

  The Doreen MacIntyre Prize - competition now open! Doreen MacIntyre was an internationally-respected expert on forests and other environmental issues whose most recent project involved encouraging the UK’s biggest companies and public sector organisations to use paper more efficiently. To con...

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  Awarding Sustainability Excellence - Green Gown Awards 2014 – 19th May 2014

  This month's University Business article focuses on Stage 1 entries of the Green Gown Awards. With 14 categories, including three entirely new categories and an International Award for three categories, this year is set to be better than ever. Working on sustainability projects in rom 2013 winner...

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  Embedding Sustainability in Universities - University World News – 19th May 2014

  Iain Patton, CEO of EAUC, is featured discussing embedding sustainability in universities in University World News. You can also view the article here. There are some excellent examples of successful sustainable campuses around the world. The United Kingdom, in particular, has many examples demo...

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  NUS takes the Silver Gilt medal at Chelsea Flower Show – 19th May 2014

  **Breaking news - the Student Eats garden at Chelsea has today (25.05.14) scooped a prestigious Silver Gilt medal by the judges** Find out more NUS is really excited to be appearing at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, showcasing the student movement’s dedication to food sustainability...

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  Awarding sustainability excellence for 10 years - 2014 Green Gown Awards now open! – 1st May 2014

  We are delighted to announce the launch of this year's Green Gown Awards. Stage 1 entries are now open!  Now's the time to get some credit for your sustainability achievements! The deadline for universities and colleges to submit their entries is Thursday 5 June. Celebrating our 10 year annive...

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  Building a new alliance to enable The Future We Want – 29th April 2014

  You may remember, in December, we launched the Manifesto at the Houses of Parliament at a lively event, hosted by Environmental Audit Select Committee chair Joan Walley MP. Guests at the launch included Shadow Schools Minister Kevin Brennan MP and over 80 people from all aspects of education, inc...

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  Annual Report and Annual General Meeting 2014 – 24th April 2014

  We have pleasure in sharing the papers for our forthcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM). It will be held at 10:20am on Friday 9 May 2014 during the final day of the Annual Conference at Nottingham Trent University. All Members, contacts and partners are welcome to attend the meeting. Here, the Bo...

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  Beauty Treatments ‘Good Enough to Eat’ – 23rd April 2014

  Beauty students at Blackpool and The Fylde College, a valued EAUC Member, have been producing their own homemade beauty products and treatments as part of a project examining sustainability and ethics in their industry. Tutors from the School of Hairdressing, Beauty and Related Therapies have bee...

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  New EAUC Annual Conference keynote confirmed! – 16th April 2014

  As we get closer to the Annual Conference, we can't help but look forward to sharing the fantastic ideas, sessions and speakers we've got lined up! We'd also like to remind you that if you'd like to attend, you need to book by 23 April to secure your place! Book today! We're delighted to share wi...

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  How our work in Scotland will continue to benefit Members – 15th April 2014

  Universities and colleges in Scotland have received a firm commitment of support from the Scottish Funding Council to drive carbon reduction, embed sustainability, improve reporting and produce sustainability literate students. We are delighted to announce that the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) ...

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  The sustainability literacy test: the first worldwide picture of the knowledge of our students on SD – 15th April 2014

  Nearly 150 people have been working for more than year in order to produce the first international knowledge test on sustainable development. The "sustainability literacy test" is a multiple choice questionnaire of 50 online questions evaluating basic knowledge of sustainable development issues, ...

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  4th UNICA Green Academic Footprint Workshop – 15th April 2014

  From strategic tools to Environmental Management Systems: How to strengthen the sustainability policy of your University. Université Libre de Bruxelles  EAUC CEO, Iain Patton spoke as a keynote at the 4th UNICA Green Academic Footprint Workshop, international conference on the future of sustai...

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  Sustainable Campus International Competition – 14th April 2014

  All students around the World are invited to sign up to represent their university and make their campus sustainable The second edition of the Sustainable Campus International Competition (SCIC) is open for free registration online. This is an opportunity for students worldwide to transform their...

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  Post Crash economics and campaigning for curriculum change – 7th April 2014

  Economics and environmental sustainability rarely go hand in hand, in fact, they are quite often diametrically opposed. Wealth creation is used to justify short-term financial gain at the expense of the natural world and society as a whole rather than considering longer term models that bring more m...

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  Celebrating Inspirational Innovation - Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards – 7th April 2014

  EAUC CEO Iain Patton was delighted to attend an event at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the winner of the HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize and the six inspiring finalists of the first Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards. The awards, developed by U...

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  How Green are your Governors? – 3rd April 2014

  The EAUC is a Member-led organisation. We represent you, and ensure that your views on topical issues are conveyed to the rest of the sector and to the Government. One important way we can do this is by responding to consultations from the Government and other organisations. The Committee of Univ...

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  Investing in biodiversity - Annual Conference 2013 carbon offset donation – 3rd April 2014

  As part of our sustainable event strategy, we make a carbon offset donation to the institution that hosted the EAUC Annual Conference. We're delighted to share how the University of Nottingham used our donation in 2013. Following the 2013 EAUC Conference, the University has used the donation of £...

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  Achieve the Flexible Framework in 12 months! – 3rd April 2014

  New free resource for sustainable procurement professionals NETpositive Futures has worked with the Flexible Framework  for a number of years. They have recently decided to re-visit the framework with a fresh pair of eyes, as we believe progress across the public sector in terms of its implementa...

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  Shaping Agendas in HE Report – 2nd April 2014

  Shaping Agendas in HE: The impact of potential changing energy, emissions and adaptation drivers through the 2020s ‘Green’ issues are widely discussed these days and the target for the UK to achieve an 80% carbon reduction by 2050 is well known. Less well understood are the details o...

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  28 UK universities shortlisted for S-Lab Awards – 1st April 2014

  The 58 shortlisted entries for the 2014 S-Lab Awards include ones from 28 UK universities (with Cardiff, King's College, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield and York being new Russell Group entrants), many non UK universities and research centres from three continents (e.g. Catalonia, John Hopkins, Singapo...

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  Warming of the climate system is unequivocal says new IPCC report – 31st March 2014

  Saturday 30 March 2014 saw the launch of the major new Assessment Report by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The report was agreed after almost a week of intense discussions  in Yokohama, which included concerns among some authors about the tone of the evolving document. This...

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  University on its way to carbon neutral status – 31st March 2014

  The University of St Andrews is well on its way to achieving its strategic goal of becoming carbon neutral for its energy consumption.  Alongside recently approved plans for a six-turbine 12MW wind power development at university land at Kenly 4 miles east of St Andrews, the University has commenced...

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  2014 celebrates the biggest Earth Hour in history – 31st March 2014

  The entire world witnessed the Earth Hour phenomenon sweep across the planet in its eighth year as Earth Hour 2014 broke all records of mass participation across the world as hundreds of millions of people became everyday super-heroes for the planet. Earth hour took place on Saturday 29 March fro...

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  TODAY!!! - Invitation from the Centre for Natural Learning and Environments – 19th March 2014

  The 'Maintenance and Sustenance’ Growing Food in Schools Report Launch is taking place today, Wednesday 19th March 2014, at Greenwich Maritime Campus QA180 (First Floor Queen Anne Building) from 16:00 - 18:30. Hear what was found out and listen to speakers before networking over tea and ref...

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  Reporting back from the EAUC Scotland Conference: The Next Generation – 17th March 2014

  The 20 February 2014 was a big day for the EAUC-Scotland team as their second bi-annual national Scotland conference got underway. The theme of the day was on ‘the next generation’. The Conference was designed to inspire institutions and students to work together on the challenges of tod...

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  Why are universities important to the green agenda? – 6th March 2014

  Katie Harrison, intern at University Alliance, gives us her thoughts on this: "Universities have made impressive strides in contributing to the green agenda since the issue became a national priority following the 2008 Climate Change Act. In many cases they are going above and beyond what is requ...

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  Registration opens for Jisc’s Summer of Student Innovation 2014 – 28th February 2014

  Students offered £5k grants for innovative ideas to improve education, research and student life. Jisc, the UK’s expert on digital technologies for education and research, has today opened registration for this year’s Summer of Student Innovation. The competition will offer digitally ...

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  Jamie Agombar and Loughborough University win at the Guardian University Awards – 27th February 2014

  Last night saw the announcement of the 2014 Guardian University Award winners at a ceremony in London. With many Award categories in the running, the focus within the sector was aimed at the Inspiring Leader category with Jamie Agombar from the NUS in the shortlist. Voting has taken place over th...

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  Applications now open for Anglia Ruskin MSc Sustainability: Working for Positive Change – 26th February 2014

  This course is a unique partnership between Anglia Ruskin University, the Eden Project and Change Agents UK.  The course has been designed to help you to gain the knowledge, skills and capabilities you will need to act as a catalyst to inspire and bring about change towards sustainability.  LE...

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  Share, learn and replicate! A showcase of inspiring sustainability initiatives – 25th February 2014

  As the ethos of the Green Gown Awards is to ensure the lessons and examples of good practice are shared within the sector and beyond, we are delighted to announce that many of the 2013 finalists, highly commended and winning entries have all worked hard to provide over 70 case studies and short vide...

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  Join the National Conversation on 'The Wales We Want' – 21st February 2014

  Let your voice be heard Be part of the biggest conversation taking place in Wales. The National Conversation will hear directly from the people of Wales about the most important issues for them in improving their lives and those of their families, communities and businesses. It is an opportun...

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  Fairtrade Fortnight 2014! – 20th February 2014

  Fairtrade Fortnight 2014 has commenced and this year is the first since the launch of the EAUC Fair Trade Community of Practice in May last year. To recognise the need of fair trade resources within the tertiary sector, each working day of the fortnight, the EAUC Fair Trade CoP will be sent hints an...

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  Scotland: working towards a low carbon economy – 19th February 2014

  In this month's edition of University Business, we share our progress in Scotland through the Universities and Colleges Climate Commitment for Scotland (UCCCfS). All universities and colleges across Scotland have committed to addressing climate change and carbon challenges head on by signing the ...

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  Take your place at the EAUC 18th Annual Conference – 19th February 2014

  We are delighted to be launching what has come to be recognised as THE sustainability event of the year for the tertiary education sector at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) on 7-9 May 2014. Once again we have a great mix of content, activities, case studies and real life examples of inspiration...

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  University of Bradford GLEE project – 12th February 2014

  The University of Bradford’s sustainability efforts were recognised with a Green Gown award, sponsored by Sodexo, which recognised facilities and service excellence and sustainability across the institution. The accolade celebrated the success of Bradford’s GLEE (Green Library Environmen...

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  Draft BREEAM UK New Construction 2014 – 11th February 2014

  BREEAM have published a draft 2014 version of the BREEAM UK New Construction scheme follwoing nine months of industry consultation and development. Comments on the draft 2014 New Construction scheme can be submitted by sending an email to BREEAM@bre.co.uk. The deadline for feedback is the 10 Marc...

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  Sustainability in BIS – 11th February 2014

  SUSTAINABILITY IN BIS: GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO THE COMMITTEE’S SEVENTH REPORT OF SESSION 2013-14 The Report, Sustainability in BIS: Government response to the Committee’s Seventh Report of Session 2013-14 has now been published as the Environmental Audit Committee’s Sixth Speci...

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  The University of Greenwich launch food growing in schools research – 10th February 2014

  Researchers at the University of Greenwich (an EAUC Member) have found that food growing in schools makes an "incredible difference" to children's lives, but schools want more support to integrate food growing into every day school life. Funded by the BIG Lottery, the ‘Taking the Pulse: Mai...

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  It's Go Green Week 2014! – 10th February 2014

  Taking place from 10 - 16 February, Go Green Week is People & Planet’s annual national week of action on climate change in schools, colleges and universities. Students run a week of activities to raise awareness and demand stronger action to tackle the climate crisis. Share with us your pla...

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  EAUC consultation response to HEFCE Sustainable Development Framework – 7th February 2014

  The EAUC is a Member-led organisation. We represent you, and ensure that your views on topical issues are conveyed to the rest of the sector and to the Government. One important way we can do this is by responding to consultations from the Government and other organisations. As you will be aware,...

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  Prince Charles - ‘Get the students more involved’ – 4th February 2014

  Blog post by EAUC CEO Iain Patton "Get the students more involved" "Those were the words HRH The Prince of Wales said to me when I was talking to him about the EAUC’s challenge to inspire and steer UK universities and colleges on a more sustainable course. He is spot on of course. We me...

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  Wildflower Meadows on Campus – 4th February 2014

  In December last year Pearl Costello, the Environmental Graduate Trainee at the Royal Agricultural University asked the Sustainability Exchange Forum the following questions: "Hi all I was just wondering if anybody has had experience with creating Wildflower Meadows on campus or on a larger scal...

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