Sustainability Exchange

The Sustainability Exchange will soon become the central point and community for colleges, universities and sector service providers, sharing best practice, knowledge and resources on sustainability – all online.

The Sustainability Exchange is a 2 year HEFCE Leadership, Governance and Management Fund (LGM) project, led by Staffordshire University in partnership with the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC).

The Sustainability Exchange will become:
- The online resource on sustainability for colleges, universities and sector service providers;
- Bringing together professionals and organisations on sustainability;
- Sharing online the best practice on sustainability;
- The central point for sustainability knowledge;
- The online sustainability community for the FE and HE sector;
- A holistic view on sustainability across FE and HE institutions.

It isn't live yet as we are currently testing the site but it soon will be!

What the Sustainability Exchange isn’t:
• It isn’t an organisation – it’s a website delivered by EAUC;
• It won’t provide the answers but will act as a hub to find the answers.

Benefits from using the Sustainability Exchange – for the User:
• Saves time, you will only have to look in one place;
• Access the best resources on sustainability available from a wide range of FE and HE sector organisations;
• Benefit from best practise advise, chats and other resources – helping you to do your job better;
• Meet (online) people with the same issues and experiences and others with the answers and solutions;
• Helps to bring a holistic view, linking colleagues across the departments within institutions.
 

If you want to register your interest in the Sustainability Exchange or to get more information please contact me, Gill Ainge, the Sustainability Exchange Project Manager and I will let you know when it goes live! 
 

Creating the Sustainability Exchange - what's the plan? 

• Autumn/Winter 2011 – testing
• Winter 2011/2012 – site goes live

Come back to this page soon to check our progress or why not get more involved?

Project updates
An update on the Sustainability Exchange 24 October

Join our Exchange Panel now!

• Are you interested in sustainability?
• Do you currently search for information and support on sustainable issues?
• Do you want your institution to be leading the sector on sustainability?

We are now recruiting staff from English Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to join our panel of sustainability experts to help us develop this exciting sector owned sustainable community/repository.

We need you to be the voice of the sector ensuring this site meets the needs of sustainability experts like you. You’ll be asked to champion the project, contribute to the content and test the site.

To join the Sustainability Exchange Panel - email us to register your interest.
 

Our partners

 Facilitated by: Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) and Staffordshire University

Funded by: The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

Founding Partners:

• The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)

• Staffordshire University
• EAUC
• Universities UK
• Guild HE
• Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• JISC
• University Safety and Health Association (USHA)
• Association of University Engineers (AUE)
• National Union of Student Service Ltd (NUSSL)
• Association of Heads of University Administration (AHUA)
• University and College Union (UCU)
• The Carbon Trust
• Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE)
• Association of University Procurement Officers (AUPO)
• Salix Finance, Sustainable Procurement Centre of Excellence(SPCE)
• The Energy Consortium
• British Universities Finance Directors Group (BUFDG)
• WRAP