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  How our work in Scotland will continue to benefit Members – 15th April 2014

  Universities and colleges in Scotland have received a firm commitment of support from the Scottish Funding Council to drive carbon reduction, embed sustainability, improve reporting and produce sustainability literate students. We are delighted to announce that the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) ...

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  The sustainability literacy test: the first worldwide picture of the knowledge of our students on SD – 15th April 2014

  Nearly 150 people have been working for more than year in order to produce the first international knowledge test on sustainable development. The "sustainability literacy test" is a multiple choice questionnaire of 50 online questions evaluating basic knowledge of sustainable development issues, ...

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  4th UNICA Green Academic Footprint Workshop – 15th April 2014

  From strategic tools to Environmental Management Systems: How to strengthen the sustainability policy of your University. Université Libre de Bruxelles  EAUC CEO, Iain Patton spoke as a keynote at the 4th UNICA Green Academic Footprint Workshop, international conference on the future of sustai...

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  Sustainable Campus International Competition – 14th April 2014

  All students around the World are invited to sign up to represent their university and make their campus sustainable The second edition of the Sustainable Campus International Competition (SCIC) is open for free registration online. This is an opportunity for students worldwide to transform their...

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  Post Crash economics and campaigning for curriculum change – 7th April 2014

  Economics and environmental sustainability rarely go hand in hand, in fact, they are quite often diametrically opposed. Wealth creation is used to justify short-term financial gain at the expense of the natural world and society as a whole rather than considering longer term models that bring more m...

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  Celebrating Inspirational Innovation - Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards – 7th April 2014

  EAUC CEO Iain Patton was delighted to attend an event at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the winner of the HRH The Prince of Wales Young Sustainability Entrepreneur Prize and the six inspiring finalists of the first Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards. The awards, developed by U...

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  How Green are your Governors? – 3rd April 2014

  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 Committee of Univ...

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  Investing in biodiversity - Annual Conference 2013 carbon offset donation – 3rd April 2014

  As part of our sustainable event strategy, we make a carbon offset donation to the institution that hosted the EAUC Annual Conference. We're delighted to share how the University of Nottingham used our donation in 2013. Following the 2013 EAUC Conference, the University has used the donation of £...

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  Achieve the Flexible Framework in 12 months! – 3rd April 2014

  New free resource for sustainable procurement professionals NETpositive Futures has worked with the Flexible Framework  for a number of years. They have recently decided to re-visit the framework with a fresh pair of eyes, as we believe progress across the public sector in terms of its implementa...

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  Shaping Agendas in HE Report – 2nd April 2014

  Shaping Agendas in HE: The impact of potential changing energy, emissions and adaptation drivers through the 2020s ‘Green’ issues are widely discussed these days and the target for the UK to achieve an 80% carbon reduction by 2050 is well known. Less well understood are the details o...

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  28 UK universities shortlisted for S-Lab Awards – 1st April 2014

  The 58 shortlisted entries for the 2014 S-Lab Awards include ones from 28 UK universities (with Cardiff, King's College, Leeds, Nottingham, Sheffield and York being new Russell Group entrants), many non UK universities and research centres from three continents (e.g. Catalonia, John Hopkins, Singapo...

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  Warming of the climate system is unequivocal says new IPCC report – 31st March 2014

  Saturday 30 March 2014 saw the launch of the major new Assessment Report by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The report was agreed after almost a week of intense discussions  in Yokohama, which included concerns among some authors about the tone of the evolving document. This...

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  University on its way to carbon neutral status – 31st March 2014

  The University of St Andrews is well on its way to achieving its strategic goal of becoming carbon neutral for its energy consumption.  Alongside recently approved plans for a six-turbine 12MW wind power development at university land at Kenly 4 miles east of St Andrews, the University has commenced...

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  2014 celebrates the biggest Earth Hour in history – 31st March 2014

  The entire world witnessed the Earth Hour phenomenon sweep across the planet in its eighth year as Earth Hour 2014 broke all records of mass participation across the world as hundreds of millions of people became everyday super-heroes for the planet. Earth hour took place on Saturday 29 March fro...

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  TODAY!!! - Invitation from the Centre for Natural Learning and Environments – 19th March 2014

  The 'Maintenance and Sustenance’ Growing Food in Schools Report Launch is taking place today, Wednesday 19th March 2014, at Greenwich Maritime Campus QA180 (First Floor Queen Anne Building) from 16:00 - 18:30. Hear what was found out and listen to speakers before networking over tea and ref...

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  Reporting back from the EAUC Scotland Conference: The Next Generation – 17th March 2014

  The 20 February 2014 was a big day for the EAUC-Scotland team as their second bi-annual national Scotland conference got underway. The theme of the day was on ‘the next generation’. The Conference was designed to inspire institutions and students to work together on the challenges of tod...

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  Why are universities important to the green agenda? – 6th March 2014

  Katie Harrison, intern at University Alliance, gives us her thoughts on this: "Universities have made impressive strides in contributing to the green agenda since the issue became a national priority following the 2008 Climate Change Act. In many cases they are going above and beyond what is requ...

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  Registration opens for Jisc’s Summer of Student Innovation 2014 – 28th February 2014

  Students offered £5k grants for innovative ideas to improve education, research and student life. Jisc, the UK’s expert on digital technologies for education and research, has today opened registration for this year’s Summer of Student Innovation. The competition will offer digitally ...

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  Jamie Agombar and Loughborough University win at the Guardian University Awards – 27th February 2014

  Last night saw the announcement of the 2014 Guardian University Award winners at a ceremony in London. With many Award categories in the running, the focus within the sector was aimed at the Inspiring Leader category with Jamie Agombar from the NUS in the shortlist. Voting has taken place over th...

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  Applications now open for Anglia Ruskin MSc Sustainability: Working for Positive Change – 26th February 2014

  This course is a unique partnership between Anglia Ruskin University, the Eden Project and Change Agents UK.  The course has been designed to help you to gain the knowledge, skills and capabilities you will need to act as a catalyst to inspire and bring about change towards sustainability.  LE...

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