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Sustainability Advisory Board 2.0

The Sustainability Advisory Board advises the university management on all sustainability issues, continuously develops the university's sustainability strategy, bundles existing activities and initiates new plans and projects. The aim of the advisory board is to firmly anchor the topic of sustainability at all levels and in all areas of the university. Sustainability is to be integrated into both research and teaching.

In addition, TU Graz's energy and mobility management is to be optimised, measures to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are to be developed and (research) projects in the field of sustainability are to be initiated and implemented. A regular sustainability report documents the progress made. Members of the university are actively involved in this process.

Contact

Sustainability Advisory Board 2.0 of TU Graz

Head
Alexander PASSER

Deputy Head
Günter GETZINGER

Office
Heide NEGES
Münzgrabenstraße 36/II
8010 Graz

Tasks

  • The Sustainability Advisory Board is responsible for advising the Rectorate on important and fundamental questions relating to sustainability issues.
  • The Advisory Board supports the Rectorate in the further development of the sustainability strategy, the development of metrics and priorities and in the preparation of the sustainability report.
  • The Advisory Board makes recommendations on sustainability-related issues and draws up project proposals for the Rectorate.
  • The Advisory Board contributes to the anchoring and dissemination of the sustainability goals and the sustainability strategy in the organisational units of TU Graz.
  • Regular mutual exchange on sustainability-related activities of the delegating units and the Advisory Board.

Members

The Sustainability Advisory Board is an interdisciplinary team made up of members of the Senate, all faculties, the Student Union, the organisational units of the Rector and each Vice-Rectorate as well as extraordinary members of the Works Councils and the Working Group for Equal Opportunities.

Members of the Sustainability Advisory Board

Networking and Cooperation

The Sustainability Advisory Board 2.0 networks in the Sustainability4U platform of Graz universities, is active in the Alliance of Sustainable Universities and is a member of the Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA)

It is also involved in the UniNEtZ cooperation project and the preparation of the Options Report and the Future Building Blocks, in which contributions to the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals are developed.

The Sustainability Council also utilises international cooperation with universities, research institutions and companies in the European Sustainable Energy Innovation Alliance - ESEIA

Research

In the Field of Expertise Sustainable Systems, which encompasses all TU Graz research disciplines, TU Graz faces the complex challenges of climate change and conducts interdisciplinary research across faculty boundaries to find sustainable solutions.

Climate-neutral TU Graz

TU Graz is aiming for climate neutrality by 2030 - a central flagship project in the area of sustainability. The roadmap with concrete measures shows the way to achieve this. Progress reports regularly document the current status.