From 29 to 30 of May in Udine during the “Magnifici Incontri CRUI 2019”, the Rectors of the Italian Universities wrote a Manifesto entitled “From -Universities for sustainability- to -Sustainability in the University-”, which will be sent to the Government. The main principles included in the Manifesto are integration and the social cohesion, gender equality, environmental protection and trust in interpersonal relations.
Metal water-bottles for students, glass jugs and glasses that replace plastic bottles in all main meetings and institutional conferences, a sustainable catering service that will ban single-use plastic stuff: these are the “plastic free” initiatives of Ca’ Foscari University that will be employed from September 2019, in occasion of the begin of the academic year 2019-2020.
Shylock, the University Centre for Theater, is currently hosting the seventh edition of "Climate Change - The Grand Challenge", a communication and creativity contest. The goal of the initiative is to nurture ideas and projects with an effective message on both climate change and the socio-environmental aspects connected to it.
It is the action program for people, planet and prosperity signed by UN member countries. By 2030, with the 17 SDGs - Sustainable Development Goals, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
Palazzo Foscari has officially earned the LEED EB:O&M certification becoming the oldest “green”
building on the planet. The LEED certification attests the sustainability level of a building.
In 2018 Ca' Foscari placed 88th in the international ranking of sustainable universities (out of 719 participants universities), turning out to be the third italian university.
