Sustainability

The group on Sustainability was set up in 2021 in response to the increasing strategic importance of sustainability and sustainable development at LERU universities. The group enables vice-rectors and senior university managers charged with sustainability to discuss issues of common interest and share experience around policies, initiatives, good practice, challenges and approaches at the university, sector, national, EU and international level. The group’s activities may pertain to sustainability issues across all university operations and missions including education, research and innovation. For example, after the group worked on the issue of procurement and investment for sustainability at LERU universities, leading to a LERU statement and recommendations, it turned its attention to the uptake of sustainability in the educational curriculum.