Green Team

A dedicated team, named “Green Team”, an internal group of professors, students, administrative staff and researchers that encourages PoliTO to address environmental and social challenges, was established in 2015. 

This team is intended to lead the PoliTO towards the university sustainability mission, as stated in the Horizon 2020 strategic plan: a comprehensive integration of sustainability into the university research, teaching, outreach and operations that prepares students, faculty and staff to be sustainability leaders in their professional, personal and civic lives. 

The Green Team:

•  is composed by experts-actionfield coordinators- coming from different Departments, some of them with a previous formalized role, that are now part of an ad-hoc group for an integrated sustainability management
•  has a general coordinator that is also one of the field coordinator and can count on an administrative office
•  serves as the executive board for strategic decisions associated with sustainability in the PoliTO campus
•  serves as consultancy board for the board of Governors, the Rector and the General Director, on matters related to sustainability
•  derives set of data and work closely with all administrative areas for solutions implementation;
•  has its own data management center within the Living Lab, which also monitors and collects data related to resource use, trends and students thesis up on sustainability issues.
•  can counsel Departments and any associated task forces and working groups willing to encourage resource conservation and behaviour change in the PoliTO community
•  is in charge of the PoliTO’ Sustainability Management Roadmap
•  fosters the national and international best practice exchange through active participation to networks (ISCN, RUS, EUA, UNI-SET...) and initiatives. 

Although recently born, the Green Team acts as a collector of a variety of services in order to fulfil its mission of promoting sustainability by engaging and connecting members of the PoliTO community. 

Through institutional support, communications, events, information flow, programs and projects, and providing resources, the Green Team Office greenteamoffice@PoliTO.it is the directory for getting involved with PoliTO sustainability plan. 

The dedicated website http://www.campus- sostenibile.PoliTO.it is the first step to get in contact with the Green Team activities and the output related to presentations, reports, thesis, open data and project related to sustainability at PoliTO.

Recent initiatives include awards to students for thesis written in 2015 and concerning sustainability innovations; the open meeting every first Thursday of the month and the recognised role of catalyser for sustainability researchers inside PoliTO.