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  Be at the heart of a powerful international alliance – 25th February 2015

  The EAUC Annual Conference 2015, 'Challenging Connections', will provide a formal stage for all of the voices in the tertiary education sector so that they can inspire and challenge one another, and forge new connections. We know that we will be more powerful and effective together and collabor...

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  Fairtrade Fortnight 2015 – 24th February 2015

  What is Fairtrade? When you buy products with the FAIRTRADE Mark, you support farmers and workers as they work to improve their lives and their communities. The Mark means that the Fairtrade ingredients in the product have been produced by small-scale farmer organisations or plantations that meet F...

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  Official opening of UK's first community-owned school biomass boiler – 24th February 2015

  The UK’s first community owned school biomass boiler will have its grand opening take place on Saturday 28 February at John Cleveland College. It will be hosted by John Cleveland College Community Woodheat Co-operative in partnership with the Green Fox Community Energy Co-operative. A commu...

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  Sustainable Development Goals report and role of education (International Council for Science) – 19th February 2015

  An international report has just been released by the International Council for Science which provides an expert commentary on the proposed 2015 Sustainable Development Goals. Stephen Sterling, Professor of Sustainability Education, Plymouth University was asked to write the section on Goal 4 Ens...

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  French speaking Green Gown Award Ceremony – 17th February 2015

  The first French speaking Green Gown Awards Ceremony took place on 10 February at Kedge Business School in Paris. The Ceremony was preceded with the Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, presenting the goals of Education for Sustainable Development. T...

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  Pass it on Week 2015 - new resources available from Zero Waste Scotland – 13th February 2015

  In the run up to Pass it on Week 2015 (7-15 March) Zero Waste Scotland has produced a number of resources for you to take advantage of during the week. The aim of the week is to encourage people to get involved in re-using as much as possible. It could be through swapping, repairing, upcycling or bu...

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  Call for working group abstracts to present at ISCN 2015 Conference – 13th February 2015

  As part of the ISCN 2015 Conference, the International Campus Sustainability Network is seeking cutting-edge contributions relevant to the three respective Working Group topics: Working Group 1: Sustainable buildings and user behaviour Working Group 2: Climate preparedness and other ca...

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  Green Week promotion from the EAUC North-West England group – 12th February 2015

  In early February the EAUC North-West England group Convenor, Pam Reynolds asked the group what their plans for Green Week 2015 were.  A number of institutions have kindly shared their plans and promotional tools that are in use currently. > Liverpool Guild of Students > University of Manch...

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  Sustainable Development included in HEFCE grant letter from BIS – 3rd February 2015

  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 EAUC has been lob...

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  Campus Estates Management magazine features Challenging Connections – 3rd February 2015

  The EAUC Annual Conference 2015 has been featured in Campus Estates Management's Winter 2015 edition.  The three page spread shares the details of the Conference which aims to inspire delegates to challenge their connections. Over 3 days, we'll explore how a whole new level of creativity, innovat...

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  EAUC Scotland launch university carbon management plan project – 3rd February 2015

  EAUC-Scotland are pleased to announce the launch of a new project to review Scottish university carbon management plans (CMPs) to assess if they are likely to meet their targets outlined until 2020 and is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC). The objective of this project is to provide in...

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  International Green Gown Awards – 2nd February 2015

  We are excited to present the 2 UK institutions with their International Green Gown Awards. Hull College won the Social Responsibility Award for their inspiring project to transform derelict properties and Manchester Metropolitan University won the Student Engagement Award for their passionate stude...

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  Call for your approaches to fair trade! – 2nd February 2015

  For Fairtrade Fortnight 2015, the EAUC Fair Trade Community of Practice (CoP) would like to share some mini case studies on fair trade in educational institutions. If you can contribute to this, could you or someone from your institution please fill in this one page form (just 2 questions, and keep ...

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  Young entrepreneurs inspiring change - Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Award – 30th January 2015

  At London’s historic Guildhall, the EAUC were invited to celebrate the winner of the HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize and the six talented finalists of the 2014 Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards. Delivered in partnership with the Universit...

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  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...

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  Learn from the best – 30th January 2015

  This month's University Business article focuses on the suite of more than 320+ inspirational case studies and short videos on finalists, highly commended and winning projects that are now available on the newly refreshed Sustainability Exchange.  Packed with ideas and offering top three project ...

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  IMRD scholarship applications are open! – 26th January 2015

  Become a specialist in integrated rural development, through a two year master programme jointly organized by six European leading institutes in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, in collaboration with several partners in the United States, China, Ecuador, India and South Africa. Promi...

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  Ensuring sustainability has a future – 20th January 2015

  Well done today to those universities whose commitment and hard work for sustainability has been recognised by this year’s People and Planet University League.  However, the EAUC also recognises and celebrates the equal hard work and commitment of many of those who chose not to enter this year...

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  Challenging Connections – 19th January 2015

  We can’t talk credibly about sustainability if we don’t include all voices in the debate This year for the first time the EAUC’s Annual Conference, 'Challenging Connections', will provide a formal stage for all of the voices in the tertiary education sector so that they can insp...

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  Join our Board – 19th January 2015

  Our continued success will draw on the strength and diverse skills of our Board of Trustees: maintaining its balance of knowledge and experience from across the university, college and learning and skills sector is essential to our future success. We now have a vacancy for one new Board member. W...

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