What is the Sustainable Campus Forum?

The Sustainable Campus Forum aims to collect and formulate overall ideas and recommendations for how everyone at AAU can contribute to sustainable changes in the running of the campus.

The forum, with a total of 13 seats, is made up of five seats for students, five seats for employee representatives, two seats for our campus managers and the Campus Director (chairman).

The five students and the five staff representatives are chosen on the basis of a motivated application and based on geography, so that it is ensured that all three campuses are represented in the forum.

World Goals are anchored in AAU operations

The forum works to achieve a common understanding/definition of sustainability in relation to operations. In the start-up, it has primarily been about explaining the status of operations in relation to the World Goals, the status of initiated initiatives at Campus Aalborg, Esbjerg and Copenhagen, as well as a dialogue about the members' own reflections and interest in the work.

There has been a joint brainstorming on topics that the council could deal with, for example upcycling of AAU waste, area optimisation, reuse of fixtures, increased natural content on campus, as well as energy renovation and optimization, climate-friendly food in the canteen, etc. which is held up against the World Goals in the AAU context.

Sustainable Campus Forum works, among other things with

• Review of the sustainability work in CAS and assessment of expectations.
• Green accounting at AAU - how is the system for calculating AAU's CO2 emission implemented and what can we use it for?
• Sustainability in supply of canteen and cleaning.
  It is important that sustainability is visible in everyday life at AAU, and in this area there is a lot of input and wishes from the forum's members, especially regarding the canteen.
• Waste sorting is an important symbolic sustainability initiative that is visible to students, employees and guests in everyday life. It gives AAU a green identity, at the same time as it reduces the amount of residual waste.
• Sustainable transport – Car pooling app and requests for charging stations for electric cars.
• Green Campus – Outdoor areas on Campus Aalborg are Wild on Purpose and upgrading lakes and canals creates new recreational areas.
• Reduction of energy consumption.
• Desire to focus on sustainable IT – certified paper, sustainable purchasing and disposal/recycling.
• Visibility of activities and project collaborations with students and the Green Flying Squad.