The UT aims to achieve a lasting reduction in its carbon emissions as well as its consumption of energy and raw materials. It also seeks to improve the biodiversity on campus and reduce air, water and soil pollution; all of this through organisational and technical measures. To put this into practice, it launched the Sustainability, Energy & Environment (SEE) programme, a university-wide programme for managing its sustainability, energy & environmental performance, in 2019. The SEE programme aims to integrate sustainability within UT's internal operations and strives to make the measures UT has implemented visible to a wider audience.
Organisational structure
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The organisational structure of the SEE programme is visualized in the organogram above. Several teams are working closely together, in many different ways. All with the same shared goal: to become a sustainable organisation by 2030. The various roles within the SEE programme are explained below:
- Steering Group
The steering group is responsible for guiding the SEE programme policy development and plans. The group also monitors and gives feedback on the progress made towards reaching the Sustainability policy goals. The Steering group assists the decision-making on key challenges towards achieving the UT’s Sustainability policy goals.
- Sounding Board
The sounding board is a forum of representatives of SEE-Programme stakeholder groups who have subject-matter expertise. They are concerned about our university's progress in achieving its sustainability goals. The purpose of the sounding board is to provide advice, as well as to aid problem solving towards achieving the Sustainability policy goals. Students and staff brainstorm together on sustainability challenges, so that solutions have broad support and can be implemented rapidly.
- Working Group
The working group carries out policy and implementation plans in practice together with stakeholder groups. Additionally, they align plans on sustainable operations across UT faculties and departments, and report issues arising at faculty of service department back to the other working group members.
Check out UT's sustainability-page to learn more about the ways UT is implementing sustainability on campus.
Plans & policies
Contact details organisation SEE programme
If you have any questions or ideas, please send an email to sustainability@utwente.nl.
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