University starts new semester with sustainability campaign - ideas competition

With a series of postcards, Post-Its and e-mail banners, the University of Kassel is drawing the attention of students and employees to the topic of sustainability and environmental protection in a casual way. "Everyone knows that the lights don't have to be on everywhere all the time or that you can print paper on both sides. But in everyday life, this is quickly forgotten. With our campaign, we want to raise awareness and remind people that it is quite easy to make your studies or work more sustainable and efficient," explains Prof. Dr. Alexander Roßnagel, head of the Commission for Ecological Sustainability. A website providing information about the campaign and the University of Kassel's environmental profile has also already been created.

To present the university's new sustainability strategy, the Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection Group, which is organizing the campaign, is holding two information days on April 26 at the Holländischer Platz campus in front of the refectory and on May 4 at the Witzenhausen site, Steinstraße, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. At the same time, they are the start of an ideas competition in which anyone can participate who has suggestions on how sustainability, environmental protection and efficiency can be increased in everyday university life in a way that can be implemented.
The University of Kassel has set itself the goal of developing all areas of the university into a sustainable organization. By the end of 2017, for example, it aims to reduce energy consumption by 5% in relation to the area under management and the number of people, and in the longer term to reduce the volume of residual waste by 40%.

More than 60 professors from a wide range of disciplines have joined forces in the University of Kassel's environmental network. A Commission for Ecological Sustainability (KöN) has been established to develop ecological, economic and social sustainability. It supports the administration and the departments in the development and implementation of the sustainability strategy.

More info on the campaign and the ideas competition at: www.uni-kassel.de/go/nachhaltigeuni


Contact:
Georg Mösbauer and Nathalie Schnell
University of Kassel
Commission for Ecological Sustainability
Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection Group
nachhaltigeuni[at]uni-kassel[dot]de