1. Cross-university activities of the BOKU

  • Participation in the cross-university environmental team
  • Participation and hosting of Austria-wide meetings on environmentally relevant best-practice solutions at universities
  • Advising the participating alliance universities on the introduction of EMAS.

2. BOKU specific activities in the field of company ecology/environmental management

a) Further development of EMAS by improving environmental management at all locations

b) Selected lighthouse projects (depending on budgetary availability) in the areas:

  • Energy saving: reduction of electrical and thermal energy consumption,
  • Sustainable mobility: Promotion of bicycle traffic and public transport, selected measures for e-mobility at the university
  • Green meeting: expansion of ongoing activities

3. Link to BOKU teaching

a) Interdisciplinary bachelor and master theses in the field of sustainable mobility, energy efficiency, sustainable procurement, waste

b) Continuation of the "Sustainicum" project at least to a small extent (support for the Sustainicum platform and continuation of the cooperation with the Univ. Graz and TU Graz)

  • The Sustainicum project recently received the UNESCO award as a decade project!
  • In addition, the expansion of the Sustainicum project in Albania and Kosovo as part of a Tempus project has been approved (starting January 2014)