Presentation by Jorulf Brøvig Silde, from Green UiO, University of Oslo.

1. UNICA Green Academic Footprint.
green impact
through joint commitment
common projects and
shared experience
Jorulf Brøvig Silde
University of Oslo,
chair of UGAF working group

2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. Borrow the sun
At University of Cyprus,
a large scale solar power
installation is planned to
provide the university with all
the electricity needed.
Read more on www.ugaf.eu
soon.
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9. 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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10. 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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11. SOME PROPOSED ACTIVITIES 2012-13-14
• Practice Sharing and • Student Involvement
Networking – Connect with WSEN
– Green Ambassadors
• Green School(s)
– Competitions & Campaigns
– UNICA Green IT School
– Sustainability Day (s)
– Sustainability in Teaching
and Learning – Green Benchmarking
– Best Green administrative • Green Toolkits (Events,
Practices? …)
– Green Budgeting and • Exchange of staff:
Accounting?
sustainability officers
• Green Research
Projects
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12. Green Practice Sharing
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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Green Research
As a Research Hub: UGAF Research Project
• UGAF working group
•Providing a platform for joint members initiate some
research project research projects based on
•Supporting application for their university needs as well as
funding group agenda
•Facilitating proposal writing •Support each other projects
process through data collection ,
sharing literature and peer
review evaluation
•Might happen.
Is happening.
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17. 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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18. 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

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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20. Forum 7: 21
Sustainability

21. Change.
Or no
change.
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22. 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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24. The Green Pledge
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

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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

28. 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

29. goals
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.