Green-Campus Living Lab
Green Campus Living Lab
The An Taisce Green-Campus programme has been a front-runner in structuring an approach to enhancing campus sustainability since 2007. It embraces a partnership approach to environmental management, education, and action to allow campus stakeholders to engage in a meaningful way in the sustainable transition of their campus. TU Dublin’s Green Flag award in 2023 marks the significant progress made by the TU Dublin campus community through the Green-Campus programme.
Since 2007 a lot has changed, and the Public Sector Climate Action Mandate and TU Dublin’s Climate Action Roadmap (CAR) create a legally binding obligation for aspects of campus sustainability. The Green Campus Living Lab, part of the TU Dublin Living Lab, creates a way to connect Green-Campus activities to the Climate Action Roadmap and the University's sustainability goals. It convenes campus stakeholders, delivers a programme of campus animation events, and supports community-initiated innovation activity so that Green-Campus programme activity can contribute to TU Dublin's sustainability goals.
How can I interact with the Green Campus Living Lab?
To animate the Green Campus Living Lab, project ideas can be developed and implemented using a living lab approach. The following living lab characteristics can be incorporated into project design:
- Real-world experimentation
- Multi-stakeholder participation
- Active end-user or campus community involvement - these can be the first adopters of the idea.
- Systematic co-creation - engaging stakeholders through all project phases.
- An iterative approach to innovation e.g., through prototyping or agile piloting.
- Multiple methods and tools – allowing the idea to be thoroughly explored and enabling a range of stakeholders to contribute.
Working in this way can enhance the replicability and scalability of project ideas and increase their impact. Most ideas or interventions to improve campus sustainability can be implemented using this approach.
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