Alliance of Sustainable Universities
The Alliance of Sustainable Universities (ANU) is an association of universities in Austria founded in 2012 with the aim of promoting sustainability at universities. The ANU is an informal association of universities, there is no legal entity or binding statutes, a memorandum of understanding serves as the basis for the cooperation.
Foundation and goals
The ANU was founded in 2012 on the initiative of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna and the University of Graz . The reason for the establishment was that in 2012 new performance agreements had to be concluded between the universities and the Republic of Austria , and a new university plan was drawn up by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research. The topic of sustainability should be more firmly anchored in these strategically relevant papers .
The aim of the alliance is to support and stimulate cross-university initiatives on sustainability in research, teaching and corporate ecology. An important sub-goal was achieved with the publication of a manual for creating a sustainability strategy. The creation of a sustainability strategy is expressly specified in the performance agreements of the participating universities.
Working groups have been set up to deal with key issues. a. for mobility , procurement , sustainable entrepreneurship, environmental management and education for sustainable development. A highlight of the alliance's activities so far was the holding of a survey of opportunities in 2015, in which Federal Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner took part.
Participating universities
As of August 2018, the following 15 universities are members of the alliance:
- Danube University Krems
- Graz University of Art
- Medical University of Graz
- Montan University Leoben
- University of Applied Arts Vienna
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
- University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- University of Graz
- University of Innsbruck
- University of Klagenfurt
- University of Linz
- Mozarteum University of Salzburg
- University of Salzburg
- Graz University of Technology
- University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
- University of Economy Vienna
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alliance Universities. Retrieved on August 9, 2019 (German).