An Ecological Vision with Social Responsibility …
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An excellent project was developed by the ‘Communication Studies’ students
linked to awareness about the use of the elevator (accessibility and social responsibility). The communication created was awarded a prize at an important regional
event. This project will be implemented in 2020.
(b) Before VERSAS:
All the history about the “Green Week” and the “Social Responsible Week” was
written in the topic ‘Background VERSAS’.
(c) Lessons learned from MMU adapted into VERSAS project:
At MMU there are university priorities in Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD) with a University Strategy SD.
5.4 Working Towards Sustainable Procurement
(a) Priorities:
The sustainable purchases were prioritized from that date. As a public institution,
the law requires bidding for purchases over a certain amount. The first actions were:
• It was decided that the changes regarding solid waste needed the purchase of bins
and hiring a cleaning company with the proposed adjustments.
• It was decided that all lamps purchased from that date for the three units will be
LED.
• It was decided to change the water consumption in disposable plastic bottles that
were available to all teachers and staff to ‘sustainable bottles’ with the project
logo, distributed to all teachers and staff.
(b) Before VERSAS:
Purchased lamps with reactors, purchased 4.000 plastic bottles (500 ml) per month,
approximately 40.000 per year (because we have two holiday months), and untrained
cleaning staff not suitable for all garbage separation.
(c) Lessons learned from MMU adapted into VERSAS project:
In the cross-faculty research network they research the circular economy.
6 Conclusions, Recommendations and Further Research
This is a work-in-progress project, with initial findings. As well as it was clarified
in the literature reviewed that a vertical policy integration is decisive to support the
577
An excellent project was developed by the ‘Communication Studies’ students
linked to awareness about the use of the elevator (accessibility and social responsibility). The communication created was awarded a prize at an important regional
event. This project will be implemented in 2020.
(b) Before VERSAS:
All the history about the “Green Week” and the “Social Responsible Week” was
written in the topic ‘Background VERSAS’.
(c) Lessons learned from MMU adapted into VERSAS project:
At MMU there are university priorities in Education for Sustainable Development
(ESD) with a University Strategy SD.
5.4 Working Towards Sustainable Procurement
(a) Priorities:
The sustainable purchases were prioritized from that date. As a public institution,
the law requires bidding for purchases over a certain amount. The first actions were:
• It was decided that the changes regarding solid waste needed the purchase of bins
and hiring a cleaning company with the proposed adjustments.
• It was decided that all lamps purchased from that date for the three units will be
LED.
• It was decided to change the water consumption in disposable plastic bottles that
were available to all teachers and staff to ‘sustainable bottles’ with the project
logo, distributed to all teachers and staff.
(b) Before VERSAS:
Purchased lamps with reactors, purchased 4.000 plastic bottles (500 ml) per month,
approximately 40.000 per year (because we have two holiday months), and untrained
cleaning staff not suitable for all garbage separation.
(c) Lessons learned from MMU adapted into VERSAS project:
In the cross-faculty research network they research the circular economy.
6 Conclusions, Recommendations and Further Research
This is a work-in-progress project, with initial findings. As well as it was clarified
in the literature reviewed that a vertical policy integration is decisive to support the