Aim: To deliver a measurable increase in the pro-environmental behaviours of over 90,000 students and staff across twenty universities in England. The specific behaviours targeted through the programme are better energy management, increased recycling, reducing non-essential flying and adopting lower carbon diets.
Lead partner: NUS will deliver the programme, coordinating partners and leading on communications www.nus.org.uk
Behaviour change partners:
- People & Planet will coordinate student-led grassroots behaviour change projects http://peopleandplanet.org
- Student Switch Off will manage a behaviour change project in halls of residence www.studentswitchoff.org
- Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) will manage a behaviour change project in university departments www.eauc.org.uk
Delivery partners:
- Studentforce for Sustainability will provide resource for the three behaviour change projects by employing students www.studentforce.org.uk
- London Sustainability Exchange will lead on monitoring impact of the projects and evaluating success www.lsx.org.uk
Our behaviour change partners will develop their existing behaviour change projects to maximise the potential for delivering pro-environmental behaviour changes in students and staff at universities. The three projects will then be rolled out across twenty universities as an intensive flagship behaviour change programme. The projects will be supported nationally through an online and interactive behaviour change campaign, supported locally by the twenty students’ unions. Over the first year, each of the twenty universities will adopt at least two of the three projects. The same projects will run in the same universities in the second year, allowing us to embed behaviour change and monitor impact. The individual programmes will be resourced locally through our Greener Living Assistants project, run by Studentforce, which will place a paid part-time or full-time student in each of the twenty univeristies to help deliver the projects.
