The GET-AHED consortium has concluded the pilot phase of its self-assessment tool HE Green Assessment. We were lucky to find more than 40 pilot institutions from Europe and all over the world to test our indicators. While we are still consolidating the feedback on the HE Green Assessment indicators, further...
An initiative of the European Union, GET-AHED is a digital platform that will provide Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the EU with a range of online tools to enable them to adapt to the green transition and develop whole institutional approaches to sustainability. The platform will...
We are thrilled to announce that the GET AHED project was successfully presented at the Sustainable Campus Conference, held on the 17th and 18th of October at the University of Aveiro. Julia Draghi had the honour of sharing the progress made on the project, specifically...
The OECD P.L.A.C.E.S portal serves as a hub for local policy makers and practitioners to harness these experiences, providing access to the latest OECD evidence briefs and case studies. We are delighted to see the GET-AHED project featured as a case study on the P.L.A.C.E.S portal! Click HERE...
Identifying key aspects to better engage individuals in HEIs in sustained growth for the Green Transition was the topic of the presentation of Rebecca Robinson, Munster Technological University, Ireland, at the EAIR Forum 2024. Sustainability has become an integral part of life on campus ...
The Erasmus+ project GET-AHED, coordinated by WPZ, and the UNISIMS project at TU Dresden both focus on the strategic potential of self-assessment tools for environmental sustainability to support the green transition in the higher education sector. “Sustainability self-assessment for HEIs and its potential for sustainability strategies” HEIs...
Sustainable development, as presented in the United Nations 2030 agenda, presupposes an intergenerational commitment, in which Higher Education institutions (HEIs) have a crucial role, as they are training leaders, students, decision-makers and tomorrow. Under the theme “Transformative actions between Academia and Society to implement the...
The GET-AHED team is at the EAIR Conference 2024 in Cork, Ireland with two different presentations: “Sustainability self-assessment for HEIs and its potential for sustainability strategies” (together with the UNISIMS-project): Verena Régent (coordinator of the GET-AHED-project) and Leyla Azizi (coordinator of the UNISIMS-project) will speak about the...
During the summer months, the GET-AHED consortium used the time at higher education institutions to prepare the testing phase of the first iteration of indicators for our HE Green Assessment tool. The testing phase will take place as of mid-September 2024 and we are still...
For developing HE Green Assessment, the GET-AHED consortium has established a set of indicator statements based on a dedicated methodology which comprises screening existing tools and metastudies, peer reviews within the consortium, extended internal expert reviews in partner institutions and an external expert review through...
