Globally oriented, locally anchored – Sustainable TU Dresden
TUD Dresden University of Technology is locally anchored, but it is globally oriented in developing an ecologically responsible and sustainable institution to fulfill its responsibility to society and future generations. TU Dresden attaches high priority to environmental and climate protection as well as ecological sustainability.
As an excellent institution of education and research, we accept the responsibility for necessary societal transformation. Our university is researching and teaching potential actions and solutions for sustainable change in the relationship humans have to nature, and we are fostering the skills required to ensure this change occurs among our students. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals serve as guidelines for our endeavors.
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Sustainable TU Dresden
In addition to research on issues of ecological sustainability and advancement of knowledge and skills through sustainable education, TU Dresden also set up an environmental management system according to EMAS in 2003. It collects key parameters of university operations in pursuit of the goal to continuously reduce our environmental impact.
Different projects are being conducted to prepare our campus for the future and to make students’ and employees’ everyday university life at TU Dresden more sustainable. The structural and organizational preconditions for long-term sustainable development at TU Dresden have been established. Numerous stakeholders are working together to actively shape the various aspects of sustainability at the university (Strategies & Organization). The university community is actively involved in the manifold elements of sustainability – students and staff can work together in various teams, university groups and projects to ensure and foster sustainability at TU Dresden (Contribute).
