Sustainability at Nordic Universities - Projects - Funding - Workshop/Conference J O R U L F B R ØV I G S I L D E

E N V I RON M EN TA L A DV I S O R /PROJ EC T M A N AG E R

U N I V ERS I T Y O F O S LO

Nordic Sustainable Campus Network

- a network led by NUAS Sustainability

Recent activities

Greener Labs (Copenhagen, March 2016): Minimising laboratory energy use and environmental impact in practice.

Project launching: SuliTest (Nordic countries, jan. 2016)

Oslo Conference (nov 2015): Sustainability at Nordic universities – How are we doing and what should we do next?

Project report (nov. 2015): Implementing Rio+20 in The Nordic HEIs – A Survey Report

Nordic Case Competition (okt 2015, Aalto, Fin.): Sustainable Urban Development

Open letter COP 21 (Sept 2015. Global/Paris): A global alliance of higher education sustainability networks jointly issued an open letter urging Ministers and Governments to acknowledge universities play in addressing climate change.

Best green practice blog (Web, ongoing)

See flyer …

For more: https://nordicsustainablecampusnetwork.wordpress.com/

Projects

1. Establishing the Nordic Sustainable Campus Network-project 2013:

◦ from a group of 5 to a network of 39.

2. “The Rio+20”-project 2014-2015: ◦ Implementing the commitments from Rio+20 in

the Nordic Higher Education Institutions,

3. The SuLiTest-project 2016: ◦ a one-year project aiming at applying The

Sustainability Literacy Test in the Nordic context

A project looking into • Steering mechanisms vs sustainability • Strategy and commitment to sustainability • Enablers and obstacles in implementing

sustainability • Implementing sustainability into all

operations in Nordic universities

Rio + 20 commitment 1. Teach sustainable development concepts

2. Encourage research on sustainable development issues

3. Green campuses

4. Support sustainable development efforts in the communities in which the universities reside

5. Engage with and share results through international frameworks

Signed by rectors

Findings (1) The United Nations Rio+20 World Summit in 2012 brought together academics and university leaders from all over the world, committing to take action on sustainability issues. How well is it implemented in the Nordic countries?

Overall: Sustainability well implemented in Nordic universities,

Variance: From “fair” to “excellent”

High: Campus greening activities; energy efficiency and recycling

Medium: Sustainability in teaching and outreach/city collaboration

Low: Operation outside facility management (Green IT, purchasing, etc)

Funding NCM NORDPLUS

Other projects funded:

- Nordic Case Competition

- Nordic Sustainability Test

RIO + 20 PROJECT

Workshop and Conference: Sustainability at Nordic Universities HOSTED BY

- UiO:Eiendomsavdelingen

- UiO: Energi

- Studentparlamentet

- NUAS Sustainability / NSCN

Link to program and presentations

ARRANGED BY

Workshop and Conference: Sustainability at Nordic Universities

LAUNCHING OF REPORT

Link

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report

IMPLICATIONS AND NEXT STEPS

Similarities between universities

Differences between countries

Drivers and barriers

UNEP - support

NCM – expectations

Dan Banik: What Works

Follow up

Thursday 12. November

Venue: Main Hall, Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus, Blindern campus, Moltke Moes vei 35

8.30-8.50 Welcome and opening

Welcome by Meri Löyttyniemi, Chair NUAS Sustainability Working Group and Jorulf Brøvig

Silde, EA/UiO

8.50-10.00 Keynotes

8:50 Nordic Perspectives, Lin Anett Haugsland, General Secretary NUAS

9:00 Mahesh Pradhan, Head of Environmental Education and Training Unit, UNEP/GUPES:

UN-level guidance to Higher Education Institutions' sustainability work (by video connection)

9:10 From institutional to UN Level sustainability guidance - how Nordic Higher Education

Institutions are contributing to global Development, Meri Löyttyniemi, Rio+20 in Nordic HEIs

project leader

9:35 Presentation Project report: Report: Rio+20 implementation in Nordic Higher

Education Institutions, Meeri Karvinen, Project manager /NSCN/Aalto University

10.00-10.20 BREAK & STRETCH

Main findings: Project Rio+20 implementation in Nordic Higher Education Institutions, Meeri

Karvinen, Project manager /NSCN/Aalto University

11.00-11.15 Introduction to workshops

11.15-12.15 Working in national groups with Rio+20 results implementation

12.15-13.15 LUNCH

13.15-14.00 Workshops continue: Nordic perspectives on Rio+20 implementation

14.00-14.30 Outcomes of the workshops

14.30-15.00 Coffee

15.00-17.00 Case examples, Sustainable University concepts

15:00 Jorulf Brøvig Silde, UiO: Environmental sustainability projects at the University of Oslo

15:25 Lisbet Michaelsen, DTU: Sustainability at DTU – Strategy, policy and goals

15:50 Teresia Sandberg, KTH: Sustainability in KTH:– progress after 4 years

16:15 Ullika Lundgren, GU: Universities as role models for sustainability – a case study on

implementation and results of University of Gothenburg Climate Strategy

16:40 Julie Sørli Paus-Knudsen, UiO: Student Democracy, from making green waves to

enabling change

19.00 Dinner at Frognerseteren (Metro 1)

Friday 13. November

Venue: Bikuben, Kristine Bonnevies hus, Blindern campus, Blindernveien 31

9.00-9.05 Welcome

9.05-10.30 Keynotes

9:00 The Digital Classroom: Innovation, Dissemination and Democratization of Knowledge

(Based on experiences from the MOOC: What Works? Success Stories in International

Development), Dan Banik, Professor of Political Science & Research Director, SUM,

University of Oslo, Consulting Scholar, Stanford University,

9:20 Presenting the Sustainability Literacy Test, Aurélien Decamps from SuLiTest/HESI, Ass.

prof, Kedge Business School, France:

9:50 Views on piloting the SuLiTest in Finland, Sauli Sohlo, Deputy director, Martti

Ahtisaari Institute, Oulu Business School University of Oulu, Finland:

10:20 Q & A about SuLiTest

10.30-10.50 BREAK & STRETCH

10.50-12.30 Case examples, Education for sustainable development (ESD)

10:50 Sustainable Energy Systems: The use of real world student projects as a way to learn

and to enable sustainability in the real world, Øystein Moen, UiO Energy and Ragnhild

Syrstad, student UiO.

11:15 The Nordic SULITE-Project: Sustainability Literacy int the Nordic countries, Meeri

Karvinen

11:50 Where do we go from here – next steps in the Nordic Cooperation, Morten Friis

Möller, Nordic Council of Ministers NCM:

12:10 Summary

12.30-13.30 Farewell lunch

Post conference programme

14.00-16.30 SuLiTest partners’ meeting (including coffee) (Venue: Same place, Bikuben)

14.00 - 18.00 Post-Conference Student workshop on Climate and Universities (Venue: Chateu Neuf)

Nordic perspectives – The project has strengthened the Nordic university collaboration in sustainability, specifically in the areas of sustainability reporting, operations performance measuring and even curriculum development.

Student involvement.

The results from the inventory survey may benefit all Nordic universities, the main drivers and barriers have been suggested for each country, as well as in the Nordic level.

The project workshops facilitated networking among Nordic colleagues, building upon the new sustainable development goals - a crucial basis for the sustainability work of all higher education institutions.

Potential benefits regarding the collaboration between the Nordic ministries for education and universities, identifying functional and non-functional steering mechanisms and how to strengthen drivers for sustainability in the Nordic universities.

Joint efforts? Sustainability – inter/intra/trans

1. Sust + Facilities & environment + ICT: Establishing a software platform as a joint approach reusing and recycling (ref UK)

2. Sust + Communication: Consistent Green Message. Green Gowns Award (ref EAUC, UK)

3. Sust + Library Service: Catalog over Sustainbility Search words and phrases

4. Sust + Economy: Green Growth as an enabler for change on campus

5. Sust + Legal: Right to environmental information – consequences. Climate laws and implications for campus planning and operations.

6. Sust + Research and Innovation Support: Project framing for campus as a living laboratory. SuliTest Nordic

7. Sust + Internationalisation: Multiplying efforts by collaborating across borders

8. Sust + Faculty administration: Local relevance of global challenges

9. Sust + HR: Human Resource Development as if people and the Earth matters

10. Sust + …

Squabbling?

Not NUAS;

we are on to it.