Sustainability (CSR)

As part of an integrating overall coordination, it is important to increase the acceptance of all university members with regard to CSR and to create an awareness of social, ecological and economic interrelationships at the university. At the implementation level, CSR projects must be planned, supported and coordinated in cooperation with all stakeholders. CSR strategies must be developed and embedded in their strategic orientation in close cooperation with the university management and integrated into the university's existing management structures.

Sustainability management is a complex task that involves, on the one hand, recording the resource consumption (gas, water, oil, land, biodiversity) and emissions (greenhouse gas emissions) caused by Fachhochschule Dortmund and how these can be minimized. In addition to the ecological dimension of sustainability, the social dimension also plays an important role.

As an employer, as a teaching and research institute, as part of urban society, as a cooperation partner for regional companies and as a neighbor, Fachhochschule Dortmund has a responsibility to enable participation and maintain quality of work and life.

The CSR Office is looking to exchange ideas with you!

Knowledge and information are the basis for sustainable development, which is why the CSR Office will provide basic knowledge about sustainability and communicate sustainable development internally at Fachhochschule Dortmund, using our website, the intranet and a newsletter (in progress). We will also continue to develop the "Social Responsibility" focus group and organize thematic working groups, regulars' tables, lectures and workshops. Together with you, we would like to formulate the social, ecological and economic goals of Fachhochschule Dortmund and take action.

There is already a great deal of commitment at our UAS. We want to protect nature on our campus by sponsoring trees, and by donating first-aid kits to the "Gast-Haus" initiative, we share responsibility for the urban community. The first-year students of the Faculty of Architecture are planting trees, and the Faculty of Business Studies, together with the General Student Committee (AStA), has set out to install book exchange cabinets on campus.

The "Grenzenlose Wärme" aid organization was founded at the UAS to help refugees in camps in Greece. A used furniture warehouse at Fachhochschule Dortmund enables the sustainable furnishing of offices. Participation in the paper atlas, bicycle rental stations and e-cars are further examples of the broad commitment at our university.

Nevertheless, we can achieve much more together and the CSR Office would like to support you in this!

Where does Fachhochschule Dortmund stand with regard to the implementation of its CSR? How are the processes running? Where are its strengths and where are its weaknesses? Ongoing sustainability reporting, which involves all stakeholders and makes sustainability projects and activities visible, is an important basis for internal and external communication.

In this context, Fachhochschule Dortmund's sustainability reporting is not a static report on the university, but a continuously developing report on sustainability activities and measures that members of Fachhochschule Dortmund have initiated and supported. However, sustainability reporting should not only refer to the example measures and activities that create positive value, but should also cover the university as a whole and provide an overall picture.

Sustainability reporting is therefore the documentation of sustainability management, but also has an independent dimension. Comprehensive, transparent and comparable criteria must therefore be identified and presented for holistic sustainability reporting.

The CSR Office looks forward to your cooperation!