raatikainen, saana, track 4
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Unipoli Green - Four Universities Working Together for
SustainabilityEveliina Asikainen & Saana Raatikainen
with
Sannamari Hellman, Lotta Parjanen and Marjut Schroderus
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Sustainable Development in Finland• Finland is one of the world´s leading countries in promoting sustainable
development • Finnish National Commission on SD is chaired by the Prime Minister since
the 1990´s• Promotes, monitors and evaluates the implementation of the global 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development and integrates it as part of national sustainable development efforts
• Society´s Commitment to Sustainable Development was launched in 2014• Finnish way of committing different stakeholders in society to promoting SD
• The SD challenges in Finland are social segregation, unemployment, insufficient actions to prevent climate change and overuse of natural resources
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Higher Education in Tampere
• University of Tampere
• Tampere University of Applied Sciences
• Tampere University of Technology
• Police University College
• Altogether about 36 000 students and 5000 staff members
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SD in Finnish Universities
• Universities in Finland have great autonomy even though they are mostly financed by the Ministry of Education and Culture
• Universities are expected to be the forerunners of the society and expectations for promoting sustainable development are rising but the resources for sustainability work are still scarce
• Competition between higher education institutes -> does not easily encourage co-operation
• Finnish Higher Education Forum on Sustainability -> network that enables sharing information and experiences
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Independent development vs. co-operation
• Co-operation of HEIs in SD is rarely reported
• Possible reasons based on our experiences• Looking too far – it took almost 20 years SD work in each university before
systematic co-operation started
• "All wisdom lies in University – no need for co-operation"
• Resources allocated to SD and attitudes towards SD vary
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Sustainability profiles of the HEIsUTA TUT TAMK Police University College
Origin in student activismon environmental impacts1996
Started by active lecturer1996
Bachelor Programme in EnvironmentalEngineering 2003
Managemment´s interest2014
Full time coordinator in facilities management
Environmental specialistin facilities management no resource for SD
Working group for SD leadby a lectruer, real estatemanagement coordinates
No special resources in SD
In curricula emphasis on social sustainability
In curricula emphasis on ecological & economicsustainability
ESD part of buildingprofessional identity
Social sustainability and justice emphasised in curriculum
Fair Trade University, strong cooperation withreal estate owners
Cooperation withreaestate owners, newBREEAM certified building
Energy-Efficiencycommitment
Real Estate ownercommitted
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UnipoliGreen at work• Meetings of environmental coordinators and/or chairs of
sustainability working groups• Support, peer group, brain storming• Different backgrounds of the group members help in building firmer
understanding of SD
• E-mails, distributing initiatives and news
• Meeting top management – lobbying ideas
• Lobbying the national authorities –arranging a national meeting of SD coordinators
• Arranging events collectively
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Achievements
1) Awareness raising – enables better visibility and reaches more students
2) Sharing information and influencing management – puts more weight on co-operation
3) Curriculum development – promotes multidisciplinarity
• SD courses have been mapped in three universities• Joint Multidisciplinary Sustainable Development
Study Module
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Challenges
• To secure that SD targets are included in the strategy in the middle of the big organizational and cultural change
• To bring strategic SD commitment into resources
• To get clear mandate from top management and commitment from whole university community
• To bring existing skills and expertise into different levels of organization
• To secure continuity
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Conclusions
• Meeting peers gives possibilities for testing, reflecting and being credited
• Keeping SD on the agenda in a change process
• Inter-institutional networking speeds up adoption of new, more sustainable practices, which is the ultimate mission of promoting SD
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Thank your for your attention!Contact information
• Senior Lecturer Eveliina Asikainen, [email protected]/
• Environmental coordinator Saana Raatikainen, [email protected]/sustainability
• #Tampere3