320 Green Gown Award resources and more!

30th January 2015

The Green Gown Awards celebrated its 10th anniversary at the stunning Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester in November 2014 and since then, we have been working hard to ensure best practice demonstrated by our finalists is disseminated far and wide.

Many of the 2014 winners, finalists, highly commended and winning entries have been added to the rapidly expanding suite of innovative Green Gown Award project case studies and short videos. This total now stands at over 320 representing 4 years of Awards excellence!

So if you work in tertiary education, are passionate about sustainability and need some fresh inspiration to kick start a new project or even a motivational boost to enhance your current one, then look no further!

The number one resource for sustainability

These unique resources are now available to view on the newly refreshed Sustainability Exchange, with it now even easier to find the sustainability resources you need. A visit to the Sustainability Exchange will be a different one in 2015 as we've been working on a refreshed site for the past year!

We've also been busy bringing new national and international partnerships and sponsors on board. Generating these new partnerships with leading organisations such as Association of Colleges, Sustain Wales, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and the Sustainable Restaurant Association has enabled us to pool even more resources to the Exchange, which we hope will support the development of innovation and collaboration on the challenging topic of sustainability. It has also allowed us to garner greater expertise and insights onto the platform and made it easier to find and share resources for the benefit of all. View our Partners and Sponsors.

Here's just a taster of these new resources...

University of Worcester - Winner of Facilities and Services for their Bike Loan Scheme. View case study and video

Plymouth University - Winner of Food and Drink for their model of sustainable catering. View case study and video

Redbridge Institute - Small Institution Winner for Student Engagement. View case study and video

Roisin Lyle-Collins, Glasgow University Environmental Sustainability Team (GUEST) Coordinator - Winner of the Sustainability Champion Award. View case study and video

University of Strathclyde - our 100th Winner for Continuous Improvement for their Sustainable Success Story. View case study and video

Taking inspiration

We thank the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) for supporting the dissemination of good practice demonstrated by the Awards. We would also like to thank all the finalists for creating and sharing with us their inspiring sustainability projects.

We will be working with the winners and highly commended entries over the coming months to bring further learning through 'exchange' webinars.

Entries for this year’s Green Gown Awards open on 1 May 2015. For more information about the Awards, visit www.greengownawards.org.uk.