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University of Freiburg Sustainability Compass

Preamble

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The University of Freiburgs Sustainability Compass serves as the basis for concerted, purposeful action for all University facilities. The compass is a dynamic process that is under continuous further development.

Universities bear special responsibility for the social transformation towards sustainability as creative centres for research, teaching, and learning and as drivers of innovation. In drawing up this sustainability compass, the University of Freiburg has set itself the goal of taking into account this responsibility and serving as a model in the German university landscape. At the University of Freiburg, we regard sustainability not only as a necessary academic topic for finding and communicating solutions to urgent global challenges in research and teaching as well as knowledge and technology transfer but also as an ongoing challenge for our own daily operations and for taking on social responsibility.

The objectives of this sustainability compass are an integral part of the University’s overall process of profile development. The compass is focused on the values embodied in the University’s mission statement, which should be practiced throughout the University within the context of social sustainability: quality, responsibility, and openness.

Understanding of Sustainability

Governance

Research and Transfer

Studies and Teaching

Operations