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Table 3 Unisul’s practices as living labs for sustainable development
Sustainable buildings and
facilities
• Photovoltaic solar energy generation;
• Energy efficiency programs;
• Sustainable waste management: recycling, reducing waste-paper
generation, selective waste separation, organic waste composter;
• Rainwater collection and water reuse in the labs of architecture,
engineer and chemistry; and
• Waste water treatment and reuse in the water/aquatic complex
Creative and collaborative
environments
• Sustainable and self-sustaining hydroponic food garden;
• Innovation and sustainability in research centers and teaching
methods;
• The Technology Centre of Unisul, with innovation labs focused
on research, technology development, analysis, teaching and
learning;
• The Innovation Agency of Unisul; and
• Use of the organic compost to produce medicinal plants used in
the courses of naturology, gastronomy and medicine
Collaboration and
knowledge dissemination
• Sustainability events on campus: congresses, workshops,
lectures;
• Courses of short duration for capacitation and training; and
• ESD programs open to both internal and external communities
Outreach
• Actions for improving the wellbeing of local communities, such
as the cleaning of local rivers with the community;
• The biodiesel project in a fishing community to increase the
community’s income and reduce water pollution from oil;
• The sustainable school in Rancho Queimado, which combines
the use of sustainable technologies and ESD;
• The Solidarity Economy program;
• The Welcoming the Immigrants program;
• The participation in the committee of the Cubatão River’s water
basin;
• Health care projects to the low-income communities, through
dental clinics, medical clinics, community hospitals;
• Programs of legal assistance and advice, human rights and
citizenship;
• Program for women’s rights and education against violence;
• Programs for business consultancy, stimulating entrepreneurship,
internationalization and strategic management;
• Programs for stimulating sports and digital inclusion; and
• Collaboration with primary and secondary schools, through
programs of educative games, incentives to reading and
literature, health education and ESD
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Table 3 Unisul’s practices as living labs for sustainable development
Sustainable buildings and
facilities
• Photovoltaic solar energy generation;
• Energy efficiency programs;
• Sustainable waste management: recycling, reducing waste-paper
generation, selective waste separation, organic waste composter;
• Rainwater collection and water reuse in the labs of architecture,
engineer and chemistry; and
• Waste water treatment and reuse in the water/aquatic complex
Creative and collaborative
environments
• Sustainable and self-sustaining hydroponic food garden;
• Innovation and sustainability in research centers and teaching
methods;
• The Technology Centre of Unisul, with innovation labs focused
on research, technology development, analysis, teaching and
learning;
• The Innovation Agency of Unisul; and
• Use of the organic compost to produce medicinal plants used in
the courses of naturology, gastronomy and medicine
Collaboration and
knowledge dissemination
• Sustainability events on campus: congresses, workshops,
lectures;
• Courses of short duration for capacitation and training; and
• ESD programs open to both internal and external communities
Outreach
• Actions for improving the wellbeing of local communities, such
as the cleaning of local rivers with the community;
• The biodiesel project in a fishing community to increase the
community’s income and reduce water pollution from oil;
• The sustainable school in Rancho Queimado, which combines
the use of sustainable technologies and ESD;
• The Solidarity Economy program;
• The Welcoming the Immigrants program;
• The participation in the committee of the Cubatão River’s water
basin;
• Health care projects to the low-income communities, through
dental clinics, medical clinics, community hospitals;
• Programs of legal assistance and advice, human rights and
citizenship;
• Program for women’s rights and education against violence;
• Programs for business consultancy, stimulating entrepreneurship,
internationalization and strategic management;
• Programs for stimulating sports and digital inclusion; and
• Collaboration with primary and secondary schools, through
programs of educative games, incentives to reading and
literature, health education and ESD