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12/04/2024

What you always wanted to know about the SDGs

@Green Office

We are currently in the middle of planning a sustainable campus tour. The "Sustain Tour" was launched last year by students and staff as part of the Green Office's ideas workshops. It is intended to give first-semester students and new employees in particular, but also anyone else interested in the University of Kassel, an overview of the wide range of facilities, projects, research and teaching opportunities in the field of sustainability. In addition, the sustainable infrastructure, such as bicycle parking facilities, or the power supply via PV systems, drinking water dispensers, etc., is growing. The tour will use QR codes to provide further important information on key contacts, start-ups, cooperation partners and groups and initiatives in the field of sustainability. A description of the individual stations is to be included on a website that has been set up.

Image: Sandra Schumann
Image: Sandra Schumann
Image: Sandra Schumann

The start-up Kinferno (formerly historyHYPE) is currently supporting us in publicizing the (historical) development of the university's environmental and sustainability profile and already has experience in implementing individual audio stations and audio walks. Julia Hauser, our student assistant, is conducting interviews in which the Kassel Institute for Sustainability and the SDG+ Lab are also involved.

Signs and concrete seating cubes are planned to mark the stations on campus for the Sustain Tour. The tour will thematically address the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and both the signage and the seating cubes will be based on the SDGs. The concrete seating cubes will be made from cement-reduced concrete (eco-concrete) with the support of the Institute of Structural Engineering. This has also given rise to a student project, supervised by Department 14, which will take on supporting activities in this regard and be involved in the implementation measures. There are also plans to extend the Sustain Tour to other university locations and to (temporarily) relocate individual stations.

A ceremonial opening of the Sustain Tour is planned for mid-April 2025.