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“Campus, home, city: Laboratories of change ” , a multidisciplinary project to promote environmental and social sustainability Presentation Environmental sustainability is a strategic challenge for the UDC. The multidisciplinary project "Campus, home, city: laboratories of change" seeks to deepen the basic concepts of environmental and social sustainability and develop the capacity of students, UDC staff and citizens to act on those priority issues today, be it climate change, waste, water or circular economy. Methodology Active and responsible involvement in the current socio-environmental problems and their solutions. It combines theoretical-practical training in the form of lectures, technical visits, fieldwork and workshops. Individual and group activities for the acquisition of basic competencies of sustainability 1 , which take advantage of the housing, buildings and campuses of the university and the city as places for research and experimentation. Programming - Lectures: Climate change, Circular economy, Pollution and microplastics, Mining resources, SDG2030 ... - Workshops (small groups): separate waste collection, composting, ecological footprint, ICTs for geo-referencing, participatory mapping, audits of water and energy consumption. - “Manchando as mans” (“Getting dirty hands”): technical visits and field activities, open for university community and general public. - Exhibitions: light pollution, mobility, composting, ecological footprint, renewable energies ... - Cycle of environmental cinema (2019): “Paraiso roubado”, “Esquece Monelos”, “Queimar o monte”... Participation Posters 2018 and 2019 (up); Volunteering cleaning beach of Bens (down) Images: 1 Conferences; 2 Visits to exhibitions; 3, 4 Sustainability workshops (Water eco-audit, ICTs for participatory mapping): 5, 6 “Manchando as mans”: technical visits (wetlands for water depuration pilot plant at UDC, Nostián waste plant) Activity 2018 2019 N participants Hours dedicated N participants Hours dedicated Conferences 527 1318 462 999 Workshops 168 495 334 1336 “Manchando as mans” 284 1060 463 1490 Other tasks a 415 677 494 247 Total 1394 3550 2370 4766 Evaluation Anonymous by the participants of the two editions: Total 686 answers, with Good / Very Good estimation by modules: “Manchando as mans”: 94.7 ± 0.03% Sustainability workshops 89.2 ± 0.01% Conference cycles 89.0 ± 0.04% Environmental initiatives created 1. Emapic survey: ecological waste generation and footprint 2 2. Emapic survey: water consumption in public housing and buildings 3 3. Application Noise Capture 4 : noise pollution monitoring 4. Audit and efficient water use program 5. Composting of the organic waste of the university canteens 6. Monitoring and characterization of waste separation on Campus 7. Study of the ecological footprint and the water footprint 8. Field activities module “Manchando as mans” 9. Study of the electric bill and efficient use of energy 10. Promotion of bicycle use and sustainable mobility 11. Promoting sports, healthy living and eating References 1 Stern, M.J.; Powell, R.B.; Hill, D. Environmental Education Program Evaluation in the New Millennium: What DoWe Measure and What Have We Learned? Environmental Education Research. 2014, 20, 581–611 2 https://emapic.es/custom/residuos-udc 3 https://emapic.es/custom/consumo-auga-udc 4 http://noise-planet.org/map_noisecapture/noisecapture_party.html#UDC_2019 a participation: TICs, environmental cinema, exhibitions visited Results Direct participation of 10 centres of the UDC at 2018 edition, and 15 centres at the second one. External participation has been reduced in both editions, and volunteering has been increased, with 28 persons involved at 2019 edition. ACCELERATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CAMPUS ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMMES A Coruña, Spain, 2nd, 3rd December 2019 Acknowledgments To the Alcoa Foundation for their support in this program Verónica Torrijos a *, Manuel Soto b , Pedro Vega c , Francisco-Alberto Varela-García d , Domingo Calvo Dopico e a,b Office for the Environment | c Faculty of Educational Sciences | d Cartographic Engineering Laboratory (CartoLab), Superior Technical School of Roads, Canals and Ports Engineering | e Vicechancellor for Economy, Infrastructure and Sustainability University of A Coruña, Galiza, Spain (*Corresponding author: [email protected])
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“Campus, home, city: Laboratories of change ”,a multidisciplinary project to promote environmental and social sustainability
PresentationEnvironmental sustainability is a strategic challenge for the UDC. The multidisciplinary project "Campus, home, city: laboratories of change" seeks to deepen the basic concepts of environmental and social sustainability and develop the capacity of students, UDC staff and citizens to act on those priority issues today, be it climate change, waste, water or circular economy.
MethodologyActive and responsible involvement in the current socio-environmental problems and their solutions. It combines theoretical-practical training in the form of lectures, technical visits, fieldwork and workshops. Individual and group activities for the acquisition of basic competencies of sustainability 1, which take advantage of the housing, buildings and campuses of the university and the city as places for research and experimentation.
Programming- Lectures: Climate change, Circular economy, Pollution and microplastics, Mining resources, SDG2030 ...- Workshops (small groups): separate waste collection, composting, ecological footprint, ICTs for geo-referencing, participatory mapping, audits of water and energy consumption.- “Manchando as mans” (“Getting dirty hands”): technical visits and field activities, open for university community and general public.- Exhibitions: light pollution, mobility, composting, ecological footprint, renewable energies ...- Cycle of environmental cinema (2019): “Paraiso roubado”, “Esquece Monelos”, “Queimar o monte”...
Participation
Posters 2018 and 2019 (up); Volunteering cleaning beach of Bens (down)
Images: 1 Conferences; 2 Visits to exhibitions; 3, 4 Sustainability workshops (Water eco-audit, ICTs for participatory mapping): 5, 6 “Manchando as mans”: technical visits (wetlands for water depuration pilot plant at UDC, Nostián waste plant)
Activity 2018 2019
N participants Hours dedicated
N participants Hours dedicated
Conferences 527 1318 462 999
Workshops 168 495 334 1336
“Manchando as mans” 284 1060 463 1490
Other tasksa 415 677 494 247
Total 1394 3550 2370 4766
EvaluationAnonymous by the participants of the two editions:Total 686 answers, with Good / Very Good estimation by modules:“Manchando as mans”: 94.7 ± 0.03%Sustainability workshops 89.2 ± 0.01%Conference cycles 89.0 ± 0.04%
Environmental initiatives created1. Emapic survey: ecological waste generation and footprint 2
2. Emapic survey: water consumption in public housing and buildings3
3. Application Noise Capture4: noise pollution monitoring4. Audit and efficient water use program5. Composting of the organic waste of the university canteens6. Monitoring and characterization of waste separation on Campus7. Study of the ecological footprint and the water footprint8. Field activities module “Manchando as mans”9. Study of the electric bill and efficient use of energy10. Promotion of bicycle use and sustainable mobility11. Promoting sports, healthy living and eating
References1 Stern, M.J.; Powell, R.B.; Hill, D. Environmental Education Program Evaluation in the New Millennium: What DoWe Measure and What Have We Learned? Environmental Education Research. 2014, 20, 581–6112 https://emapic.es/custom/residuos-udc3 https://emapic.es/custom/consumo-auga-udc4 http://noise-planet.org/map_noisecapture/noisecapture_party.html#UDC_2019
a participation: TICs, environmental cinema, exhibitions visited
ResultsDirect participation of 10 centres of the UDC at 2018 edition, and 15 centres at the second one. External participation has been reduced in both editions, and volunteering has been increased, with 28 persons involved at 2019 edition.
ACCELERATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CAMPUS ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMMESA Coruña, Spain, 2nd, 3rd December 2019
AcknowledgmentsTo the Alcoa Foundation for their support in this program
Verónica Torrijosa*, Manuel Sotob, Pedro Vegac, Francisco-Alberto Varela-Garcíad, Domingo Calvo Dopicoe
a,bOffice for the Environment | cFaculty of Educational Sciences | dCartographic Engineering Laboratory (CartoLab), Superior Technical School of Roads, Canals and Ports Engineering | eVicechancellor for Economy, Infrastructure and Sustainability
University of A Coruña, Galiza, Spain (*Corresponding author: [email protected])
