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The University As a Living Lab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For more than twenty years, the University of Freiburg has repeatedly broken new ground with new ideas on how to expand operational sustainability and fulfill its function of setting an example in society<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The University as a Sustainable Place to Study and Work<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The university should provide students and staff an environment that is attractive and participative in the long term. What this involves above all is an inclusive university culture that fosters diversity and creativity. Safe and healthy workplaces belong to a sustainable university, as do gender equality, family friendliness, and respect.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Maintaining and continuously developing a sustainable place to study and work involves a large variety of large and small measures, from low-threshold offerings like workplace exercise during lunch break to institutional measures like the Family Service and Gender and Diversity Monitoring<\/strong>, with which university makes its own efforts in this area transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Numerous members of the university regularly make an active contribution, for example on the Day of Diversity<\/strong> or on Mental Health Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Goal: A Climate-Neutral University<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The university is currently pursuing the ambitious goal of achieving carbon neutrality<\/strong> by 2045 at the latest. The Climate Protection Plan<\/strong> recently passed by the Rectorate contains clear and concrete measures<\/strong> with which the goals laid out in the Climate Change Act of the German federal government  can be reached. The university\u2019s Climate Protection Plan outlines both individual large-scale flagship projects, such as a new climate-neutral building for the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, and the improvement of energy efficiency in the university\u2019s existing building stock<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The University of Freiburg has been measuring and documenting energy balances<\/strong> annually since 2009, retroactively from 2004 on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The university has also published an annual environmental report<\/strong> since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n