Awarding Sustainability Excellence
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Awarding Sustainability Excellence
Since 2004
Back in July we congratulated our 133 finalists representing 84 institutions and now we are delighted to share with you the 2024 FINALISTS' SHOWCASE.
Want to know how other institutions are working towards the Sustainable Development Goals? What does sustainability innovation look like in other post-16 institutions across the UK and Ireland? Then look no further. This showcase has something for everyone - whether you're studying, working in a classroom, sustainability department, estates or in a leadership team. Discover replicable sustainability project ideas, gain unique insights and the top three learnings from each project, and align your sustainability work to the Sustainable Development Goals. Be inspired!
With winners to be announced at the Awards Ceremony taking place on 13 November at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, we can't think of a better way to celebrate the 20th anniversary year of the Awards. Tickets sales are open.
Browse the 2024 Finalists' Showcase
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Finalists at a Glance (list view).
(Previous years' winners can be found here or on the Sustainability Exchange.)
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Assembling the puzzle – our journey to Net Zero
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Queen’s University Belfast: Investing in Sustainability for a Greener Campus and Community
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Decarbonising-by-District: How TU Dublin are pioneering two district heating projects
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Breaking boundaries with Purdown View: the largest Passivhaus scheme in the UK
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Enactus Aston: Chance for Change -take the chance - be the change
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Connections & Community – Cardiff Mets’ Free Repair Cafe
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Open Botanic Research and Festival; Pedestrianisation for a shared multicultural public space
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Inspiring and Empowering Climate Action through the arts - Reach’24: Sustainability and arts festival
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Making and Knowledge Exchange for Repair and Sustainability
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Nourish Ealing: Sustaining our community and the planet through food partnerships
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Project Nexus: Pioneering sustainable education for a greener tomorrow
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Riding towards a greener future: Implementation of the novel Equine Carbon Calculator
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Edge Hill University interview clothing collection - No smart wear? No problem! Our approach to circular economy
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Swap ‘til you drop – creating a resource redistribution movement on campus
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#MyClimatePledge – cutting business flights with “Nudge” Campaign
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Year-long campaign on Ethical Consumption and Sustainable Fashion
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Cardiff University Food – Green Shoots is growing the future
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Darwin College Kitchens: Leading by example for planet-conscious dining
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A ‘picnic’ of sustainable food and drink initiatives at the University of Liverpool
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Greens & Grains: Sussex Uni food journey to low-carbon meals
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Change today protect tomorrow – 10 years of digital publishing
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Generation Wild: Connecting children from disadvantaged communities with nature
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Decolonising Fashion and Textiles: Design for cultural sustainability with refugee communities
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The Net Zero Carbon Supplier Tool
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Friends of Energy House 2.0: Sustainable philanthropy in action!
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Transforming Coventry – urban grey morass into a green oasis, for people and wildlife
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Nature, Nurture, Reflection and Wellbeing in a Memorial Woodland Walk
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Going beyond for biodiversity - embedding nature positive principles at the University of Oxford
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Bridging the Skills Gap: Supporting climate change CPD across the West Midlands
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Fostering sustainable leaders and change-makers through student-staff partnerships
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NESA Building skills for a just energy transition
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Empowering tomorrow’s changemakers: Promoting sustainability in childhood
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Production Managing the Planet - using agile assessment to embed sustainable film and television production practice in an HE setting
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The Meliora Podcast – collaborating and celebrating the inspirational sustainability research work of our students, staff, and alumni
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Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Fashion Values Online Courses: Nature, Economy, Society, Cultures
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Feed of the Future: Developing sustainable poultry feed
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Sources, effects, solutions – alerting the world to microplastics
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Young leaders and changemakers initiate sustainable grassroots programmes
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Enactus TU Dublin – from dwindling numbers to international success
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Green College Assembly – activists leading the way to a cleaner green future by working in partnership
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Empowering student wellbeing: The Sussex Peer Support Project
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Feeding the Campus: Social and ecological justice in the York St John food system
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Robert Gordon University
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Middlesex University
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University of Cambridge - Darwin College
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University of Leeds
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University of Derby
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The University of Edinburgh
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Birmingham City University
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Mastering Sustainability: Cranfield University’s natural and social scientists unite to bridge the green skills gap through accessible apprenticeship
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ReNU: Unlocking cutting- edge green skills for clean growth
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Retrofitting, future-facing: Enabling the Net-Zero agenda
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Triangulating Green Skills - A multi-layered approach to encouraging the adoption of green skills and green technologies
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The IMPACT of NEMOS – An Irish Case-study for developing food sustainability competencies: Educator professional development and service-learning as a signature pedagogy
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Sustainable futures - elevating tomorrow’s workforce through effective curriculum design
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Student Sustainability Advisors: A curriculum innovation to develop student sustainability skills and support local enterprise
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Living lab for a sustainable NHS: An iterative project to develop interacting networks of medical students and staff across Scottish medical schools
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Centre for Sustainable Fashion (Fashion Values programme) x Global Fashion Agenda: Next Gen Assembly
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