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Sustainable ICT in Scottish Further and Higher Education
The EAUC is delighted to announce a forthcoming project - Sustainable ICT in Scottish Further and Higher Education, starting in October 2008.Funded by the Scottish Funding Council, this two year project picks up on the experience, tools and data of the UK wide HEEPI SusteIT project funded by JISC. Benefiting from this starting point the project will focus on developing additional Scottish data, activities and materials.
The project will be managed by the EAUC Scotland Manager with strategic and technical support from colleagues involved with the SusteIT work and Scottish based professionals.
ICT-related energy and environmental issues are increasingly important in further and higher education. For example, there is ever growing consumption of electricity in data centres, and in computers and peripherals; legislative and other pressures are requiring reductions in ICT-related carbon emissions, and the WEEE Directive is creating new requirements for equipment end-of-life. The costs associated with these impacts are also rising. One study of the University of Sheffield, for example, has estimated that its ICT-related electricity bill will be over £1 million in 2009.
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