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 participation in the An Taisce Green-Campus programme.
TU Dublin Green Campus
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 TU Dublin 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 students and staff can shape TU Dublin's Sustainable Campus transition.
How can I interact with the Green Campus Living Lab?
- Become a member of the TU Dublin Green Campus Network;
- Organise or participate in events during Green Week and Climate Action Week;
- Or develop a project idea through the Green Campus Open Call.
Projects can be implemented using a living lab approach with the following living lab characteristics 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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