What is the Sustainability Office?
The Sustainability Office at Paderborn University is a place of direct networking between research, teaching, operations and transfer in relation to sustainability issues. We network internally and externally and strengthen the focus on the transformation process in everyday university life.
Institutionally responsible is the Vice President for Business and Human Resources Administration and the Vice President for Knowledge and Technology Transfer. Strategically, the Sustainability Office is linked to the Vice Presidents of Paderborn University, laying the foundation for a sustainable transformation process in 2023.
Multiplier function
The Sustainability Office is represented by the Head of Sustainable Infrastructure, Matthias Gierth, and the Sustainability Officer, Friederike Häusler. This direct networking of administration, research and teaching paves the way for the development of a holistic sustainability strategy. The goal is to strengthen a common understanding of sustainability at all levels at Paderborn University.
In addition, the sustainability office is the point of contact for the many individual initiatives of students and committed employees, who have already been able to gain valuable experience with their intensive work on sustainable topics in recent years.
Who is behind the Sustainability Office?
What is the mission at the Sustainability Office at Paderborn University?
We see ourselves as a connecting element, as multipliers and as a mouthpiece for issues of transformation towards more sustainability. The establishment of the sustainability office is a first step on the path of transformation. However, we do not want to and cannot implement this path alone. Therefore, we attach great importance to transparency, the creation of understanding and participation of all status groups of the university.
Sustainable operation
In the Sustainable Infrastructure Department, we form the basic framework for the university's internal transformation process.
Department 5 for Facility Management, Operational Technology, Occupational Safety and Environmental Protection is responsible for the sustainable operations of Paderborn University and initially focuses primarily on ecological sustainability issues.
Fields of action Sustainable operation
Areas of action in which processes can be analysed and the implementation of sustainable procedures can be initiated.
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Social sustainability
As Paderborn University, we are already broadly positioned in the field of social sustainability with the Healthy University, the commitment of the Equal Opportunities Officer and the Family-friendly University.
Sustainability Unit
In the Sustainability Unit, we promote the development of a holistic understanding of sustainability at Paderborn University. This understanding serves as the basis for the development of the sustainability strategy in cooperation with the sustainability group. We also promote communication among the core processes of research, teaching and knowledge and technology transfer and strengthen the exchange with the university administration.
UPB's path to becoming a sustainable university
Starting shot 2023: Establishment of the Sustainability Office
The Sustainability Office is represented by the Head of Sustainable Infrastructure and the Sustainability Officer.
We start with an analysis phase to develop a "Status Quo: Sustainability at Paderborn University".
This forms the basis for a successful transformation of Paderborn University.
First meeting of the Sustainability WG
Representatives of all status groups at Paderborn University are invited to the sustainability group.
A holistic understanding of sustainability at Paderborn University can only be established within the framework of a joint exchange process at all levels.
Understanding sustainability
The understanding of sustainability defines the starting point for all further developments with regard to sustainability at Paderborn University. We will implement, communicate and uphold it across the board.
Wesentlichkeitsanalyse
Aubauend auf dem Status-Quo analysiert das Nachhaltigkeitsbüro mit internen und externen Statusgruppen der Universität Paderborn die relevantesten Handlungsfelder in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit an der Universität Paderborn.
Sustainable operating concepts
We lay the foundations for energy and environmental management systems.
Sustainability strategy
Based on the understanding of sustainability, we are launching the strategy process within the framework of the sustainability group to develop a holistic sustainability strategy for Paderborn University.
Sustainability reporting
To communicate and promote measures for more sustainability at Paderborn University, we are embarking on the path to sustainability reporting.
