Sustainability and social responsibility are holistic activities necessitating the involvement of the entire community. For universities and colleges, students are clearly a significant part of the internal community both in terms of numbers and also in the potential that they offer. Every new intake of students offers a surge of fresh energy and ideas that can be harnessed for the benefit of all. As they are by nature a transient population they should also be considered as future change agents, as following their experiences on campus they will return relatively quickly to wider society where their impacts can continue to be felt. Students who are actively engaged with sustainability agendas as part of their student experience are more likely to emerge as graduates who are equipped with the skills, knowledge and experience that make positive contributions to sustainable development throughout their lives.
If you would like to connect with other EAUC members interested in student-related behaviour change, join the EAUC's Embedding Positive Attitudes and Behaviours Community of Practice. This group is for EAUC members only. Find out more.
EAUC-Scotland's Community Engagement Topic Support Network (TSN) is open to all, providing an opportunity for those working in or with the further and higher education sector to share ideas and questions and to get together to hear from particular speakers or discuss topics of interest. Find out more about the TSNs here.
University of Cambridge's 201920 Environmental Sustainability Report
Lifting the lid on period poverty in higher education: a student engagement perspective
Sustainability Leadership Scorecard (SLS) Annual Report 2020
STUDENT: Emma Kidd, Glasgow Caledonian University
STUDENT: Margaret Jennings, Goldsmiths, University of London
STUDENT: Charlotte Evans and Millicent Sutton, University of St Andrews
STUDENT: Meggie Eloy and Carla Field, University of Leicester
Cibele Machado Fontoura, Kingston School of Art
Nalinee Netithammakorn, De Montfort University
Powering ahead with a low carbon supply
Nurture and Grow: Connecting people through nature
Plastic Free LSE
EcoTeam
It’s Time for Change - What will yours be?
Green Move Out and Student Volunteers
BLC: Keen to go green!
Empowering the next generation for a sustainable creative sector and beyond
OfS Challenge Competition: Achieving a step change in mental health outcomes for all students This Challenge Competition encouraged universities and colleges,...
Extinction Rebellion Takeover - Creatives prove that change can happen
Collaboration: Learning and sharing together
Radical Sustainability
A Rounder Sense of Purpose
Collaborations for Change: Integrating the SDGs in Further and Higher Education
Sustainability by Crowd - Using crowd research technique for making a more sustainable campus
Girls in Energy - A catalyst for change
Finally! Success with remote teaching and learning
Learning English through sustainability: Teaching international students English for academic purposes using the SDGs
Housing Futures - Sustainability skills at the centre of learning for future housing professionals
Warwick Enterprise: Summer Programme 2020 - Inspiring UNSDG innovators
SERC Sustainable Student Enterprise
Young Enterprise: How entrepreneurship and sustainability combine to form the DNA of successful start-up businesses
Educate to Innovate: Developing and sustaining Female Food Entrepreneurs
Creating a Sustainable World through making
A second chance for single-use lab plastics
Our future is in our hands
Greening our Campus and City
Campus Transformation - A campus for the 21st Century
Future Graduate Skills: A Scoping Study
How to make a cup of (sustainabili) tea!
Catering for Life
Changing for good
Small changes for significant impact on sustainability
Drastic and fantastic plastic reduction
Nudge LSE to plant-based options
City grows green
Cup, cup “n” away!
Accelerating Education for the SDGs in Universities’ from Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
Lifting the lid higher - Changing student attitudes and behaviours towards recycling and waste
Thought piece that forms a helpful baseline of the values and responses that run deep in Gen Z and therefore brings great value in understanding and therefore helping to shape...
For this session we heard from Anya Doherty at Foodsteps about calculating carbon foot prints for food and catering outlets and Bekki Laycock on community gardens and NUS...