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Discover how the University of Castilla-La Mancha is driving sustainability through research, education, and campus transformation. Explore their academic offerings, focus on energy and environment, and future improvement plans.
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UI GreenMetric sustainability indicatorsin the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain) Federico Fernández-González federico.fdez@uclm.es Rector’sDelegateforSustainability University of Castilla-La Mancha
Castilla-La Mancha autonomous region • 80000 km2 • Rural: low populated (26 people/km2) (50% agricultural land) • GDP lower than Spain average (20%) • Moderate industrialization (still) • A lot of history and cultural heritage • High environmental values • UCLM is important • Sustainability is important
UCLM academic offer: • attractive & varied in every campus • with trends to differentiation/specialization among campuses
Research: • 36 research institutes, many of them very competitive
Campus of International Excellence: initiative focused to promote excellence and specialization of universities (Ministry of Education, UE H 2020) CYTEMA (2011) Science and Technology on Energy and Environment • UCLM: 16 research institutes, > 50 research groups, > 400 researchers on Energy and Environment from the fields of engineering, experimental sciences, social sciences and law, architecture, arts and humanities, and health sciences • in cooperation with other leading European universities, external research institutes and leading companies of the energy sector • actions to improve/develop energy, environment and sustainability issues in: • teaching • science and knowledge transfer • campus transformation
CYTEMA Campus of International Excellence(2011) Science and TechnologyonEnergy and Environment
Future improvements GM criteria Infrastructures Energy Waste Water Transportation Education-Research green surfaces of campuses Climate change GHG emissions CYTEMA Improve statistics Traffic regulation
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