Green university: Designing a Sustainable Society
Transforming the 100,000 students of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEMEX) to be sustainable and "green"
This is a massive project, run by the administrators of UAEMEX. Although administratively powerful, they had not experience in projects of this nature, neither in scale nor content. They worked to:
- Align UAEMEX's educational programs with SDGs for social impact. Environmental education aligned with UNESCO: 17,035 students, 931 teachers and 1294 administrators trained in urban solid waste, water, electricity, hazardous waste, ODs, and biodiversity.
- Integrate sustainability into research initiatives. Measurement of social retribution activities, i.e. free workshops in productive floriculture for elders and in natural disasters for community preparedness, or delivering legal advice on human rights to indigenous communities.
- Enhance institutional infrastructure for climate action.
- Zero hunger
Dra. Martha Patricia Zarza Delgado, Secretary of Research and Graduate Studies: graduate programs & research projects
Dra. Mariana Ortiz Reynoso, Director for the Internationalization: collecting information of the project
Dr. Humberto Thomé, Director of Institute of Agricultural and Rural Sciences: Zero hunger research projects
M. Eng. Raul Vera Noguez, Director for the Environmental Protection: Infrastructure & extra-curricular education actions
Dr. Francisco Ernesto Martinez Castañeda, Institute of Agricultural and Rural Sciences: Zero hunger research projects auxiliary
Dra. Liliana Ivette Ávila Córdoba, Director for the Center for Studies and Research in Sustainable Development: Sustainability graduate studies and research
