UNICA Green Academic Footprint.

Jorulf Brøvig Silde University of Oslo,

chair of UGAF working group

green impact

through joint commitment

common projects and

shared experience

Biogas on coffee grounds

At UNIL, Lausanne,

leftover food and coffee

grounds from UNIL

cafeterias and restaurants

are used to make biogas.

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Children teaching adults

how to recycle

At Universidade de Lisboa

children in Kindergarten created

and decorated eco-points.

Result: Increased performance in

separation of waste into recycling

containers.

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Reuse the cups

At ULB, Brussels

a project started among

students to reduse the

amount of single use cups

now runs a 75 000 cups

program at campus.

Read more on www.ugaf.eu

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Greening the events

At UiO, Oslo

the UNICA Student

Conference were celebrated

as the university’s first eco-

certified event.

Read more on www.ugaf.eu

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Calculate your eco-footprint

At Tallinn University

a Green week introduced a

car-free day, a plant-your-

campus and an opportunity

to measure your ecological

footprint.

Read more.

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Click yourself wiser and greener

At Tor Vergata, Rome

a multilevel e-learning

program is increasing the

awareness on sustainability

issues.

Read more

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Borrow the sun

At University of Cyprus,

a large scale solar power

installation is planned to

provide the university with all

the electricity needed.

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What is UGAF?

UNICA Green Academic Footprint

(UGAF) is a network-based initiative

to support the UNICA-universities in

Environmental Sustainability

initiatives.

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The ACTIVITIES 2012-13-14

are aiming to

• Strengthening the sustainability efforts at

each university.

• Embedding green activities in regular UNICA

activities.

• Promoting collaboration with the cities,

capitals, regions

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SOME PROPOSED ACTIVITIES 2012-13-14

• Practice Sharing and

Networking

• Green School(s) – UNICA Green IT School

– Sustainability in Teaching

and Learning

– Best Green administrative

Practices?

– Green Budgeting and

Accounting?

• Green Research

Projects

• Student Involvement – Connect with WSEN

– Green Ambassadors

– Competitions & Campaigns

– Sustainability Day (s)

– Green Benchmarking

• Green Toolkits (Events,

…)

• Exchange of staff:

sustainability officers

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Green Practice Sharing

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UNICA Green School:

Green IT

• For university staff involved in management

and operation of IT-infrastructure

• Using Erasmus Staff Exchange Programme

• Will take place in Oslo 2013

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UNICA Green School:

Green Teaching and Learning

• How do you bring in aspects of

environmental sustainability into education

when the field of study is not environment?

• Bologna Lab Programme and UNIL 2014 ?

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Green Ambassadors Proposal from the UNICA Student Conference

• Students who take part in some Eco-literacy

training courses or Trainee program will

become Green Ambassadors.

• They will become part of the Green Team to

help out in greening of campuses, share

their knowledge and skills with other

students, help out schools and communities

in their Green practices.

• Join UNICA Students Network

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Green Research

As a Research Hub:

•Providing a platform for joint

research project

•Supporting application for

funding

•Facilitating proposal writing

process

•Might happen.

UGAF Research Project

• UGAF working group

members initiate some

research projects based on

their university needs as well as

group agenda

•Support each other projects

through data collection ,

sharing literature and peer

review evaluation

Is happening.

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The toolkits

UGAF Green Event’s Check List

Why Green Events?

•Costs saving

•Environmental innovation

•Awareness rising

•Positive reputation

•Social benefits

•Influencing decision-making

•Spreading best practice within the organization

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The toolkits

UGAF Green Event’s Check List

How Green Events?

•Selecting the venue

•Accommodation

•Catering

•Setting up the meeting

•Local transportation

•Exhibitions and putting the dots together

Adapt your greening strategy to regional realities 19

Working with the city

• The UNICA

universities already

does a lot togehter

with their cities and

regions.

• This might become

the uniqueness of the

UNICA Green

Academic Footprint

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21 Forum 7:

Sustainability

Change.

Or no

change.

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Strategy: making things move forward

• A world in need: The

Imperative

• We can: Universities are

already providing knowledge within Environmental Sustainability

• We want to: The Green

Pledge

• We are going to: The strategy

• Let us do it. Together! The proposed

projects needs your input and participation.

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We are the universities in the capitals of Europe.

Why We Pledge to Become Greener:

We acknowledge that Environmental sustainability is at our core mission and as universities, we have a unique:

• Potential and capacity to enhance knowledge and understanding, and provide necessary skills and innovation

• Responsibility and duty toward raising awareness and enhancing sustainability literacy for students, staff and communities

• Position and reason to develop our campuses as living laboratories of environmental sustainability in practice

to meet the global environmental challenges. We commit ourselves to: • promoting environmental sustainability in every aspects of our work as universities • set environmental sustainability on top of our priorities • work closely with policy makers, municipalities & communities, industry & business and other

universities • share examples of our green practice, evaluate and report our status, plans and progress to all

stakeholders

The Green Pledge

Vision

The vision of UNICA Green Academic Footprint is

to fulfill our responsibility toward raising awareness and

enhancing sustainability literacy for students, staff and

communities and to develop our campuses as living laboratories

of environmental sustainability in practice.

We acknowledge

We acknowledge that Environmental sustainability is at our core mission and as universities, we have a unique:

• Potential and capacity to enhance knowledge and understanding, and provide necessary skills and innovation

• Responsibility and duty toward raising awareness and enhancing sustainability literacy for students, staff and communities

• Position and reason to develop our campuses as living laboratories of environmental sustainability in practice

to meet the global environmental challenges.

We commit

We commit ourselves to:

• promote environmental sustainability in every aspects of our work as universities

• set environmental sustainability on top of our priorities

• work closely with policy makers, municipalities & communities, industry & business and other universities

• share examples of our green practice, evaluate and report our status, plans and progress to all stakeholders

Goals

We are aiming to

1.Involve students in development of Green campuses

• by providing training courses and workshops, exchange possibilities

and supporting their Green projects

2.Develop and facilitate sustainability literacy

• courses and training program to enhance awareness, knowledge and

skills for making the campus a living laboratory

3.Set up a collaborative platform for joint research projects,

• facilitating the search for funding and grant application

4. Support and enable universities to reduce greenhouse gas

emissions

• through web-based platform for exchanging best Green practices

5. Build links between universities and municipalities

• to collaborate on sustainability issues on campus and in the city

6. Foster collaboration with business,

• industry and other networks and organizations to promote

environmental sustainability.

goals