The university sets a new example for sustainability

The University of Kassel has been engaged in a wide range of activities on the topic of sustainability for many years. Thus, environmental references have played an important role since its foundation and have shaped development planning ever since. In addition to a large number of courses of study in this subject area and many research projects on environmentally related issues, projects in the area of operational sustainability are increasingly being initiated and implemented at the University of Kassel.

For example, potential for structural and technical energy efficiency measures is currently being surveyed across the board, the foundations are being laid for modern energy monitoring, a waste concept has been introduced, sustainable mobility strategies are being developed and corresponding information campaigns are being carried out. In addition, an incentive system for user participation in the buildings is in preparation. All these activities are flanked by a financing model for energy efficiency measures called intracting and the continuous expansion of PV systems for self-supply with electricity from renewable energy. The programs and projects are regularly reported on by the company's sustainability management in the university's sustainability report, which has already appeared twice.

In order to make it clear to the public, but also within the university, that all of these activities are not individual actions, but rather that all projects are coordinated within the framework of a comprehensive concept to increase operational sustainability at the University of Kassel, a common logo was developed. From now on, all projects and programs in this context will operate under the word mark "University of Kassel - sustainable".