Sustainability at the university level must include the sustainable use of resources in order to safeguard the development of the university and its transcendence over time as an institution. However, it must also ensure that the measures adopted within the university have a positive effect on society as a whole, which is one of the university’s main functions. In this context, the UV has set out to address numerous areas, including energy efficiency and mobility, waste management, fair and local trade, curricular sustainability, health and community awareness, and the promotion of new alliances.
LAEVSCS01 Improve sustainability by promoting the values of sustainable mobility and energy efficiency and reducing the UV’s carbon footprint.
Head: Office of the Vice-Rector for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living
Coordinator: UV Sostenibilitat
LAEVSCS02 Reduce waste and improve its management by raising awareness among the university community through various campaigns and measures.
Head: Office of the Vice-Rector for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living
Coordinator: Health and Safety and the Environment Service
LAEVSCS03 Promote innovation in and the dissemination of sustainability in the university community and disseminate and exhibit sustainability projects, thereby creating a space for dialogue on sustainability.
Head: Office of the Vice-Rector for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living
Coordinator: UV Sostenibilitat
Health education and the Healthy Environments Approach are fundamental to promoting health. This implies a multidisciplinary approach to health promotion and disease prevention in places or social contexts where people engage in daily activities and where organisational, personal and environmental factors interact on health and well-being. The health of our planet and all its ecosystems must also be considered. The ‘One Health’ concept has advanced strongly to highlight this interdependence. This objective includes acquiring health indicators in our university environment by promoting surveys on health problems and their determinants.
LAEVSCS04 Encourage the practice of healthy physical activity and sports in the workplace by developing a health promotion programme, establishing health monitoring programmes, and promoting guided physical activity in the workplace.
Head: Office of the Vice-Rector for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living
Coordinator: Health and Safety and the Environment Service
LAEVSCS05 Develop a mental health care service for the university community and a programme for preventing mental health problems, and promote a prevention policy that helps to improve the psychosocial environment and the mental health of the university community.
Head: Office of the Vice-Rector for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living
Coordinator: Health and Safety and the Environment Service
The aim of university cooperation for development is to plan and implement activities aimed at social transformation in the most disadvantaged countries in order to promote peace, equity, human development and environmental sustainability in the world, a transformation in which the strengthening of institutions and academia play an important role. To achieve this objective, we aim to consolidate our collaboration with NGOs in order to create interdisciplinary cooperation teams and develop mechanisms for promoting cooperation in those countries of action contemplated in the Generalitat de Valencia’s 5th Master Plan for Cooperation.
LAEVSCS06 Promote fair and local trade and update sustainable public procurement procedures.
Head: Office of the Vice-Rector for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living
Coordinator: UV Sostenibilitat
LAEVSCS07 Promote cooperation within the framework of Campus for Sustainable Development 2.0 by participating in interuniversity and international research projects on teaching and research with the values of the 2030 Agenda and promoting volunteering in cooperation and forums for meetings between academia and social organisations.
Head: Office of the Vice-Rector for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living
Coordinator: Delegate of the Rector for Development Cooperation
LAEVSCS08 Promote international cooperation for sustainable development through an international cooperation plan, education for development and global citizenship, volunteering, fair trade, and attention to refugees. Encourage the development of collaboration networks and the connection with society. Carry out a campaign to increase the 0.7 contribution.
Head: Office of the Vice-Rector for Sustainability, Cooperation and Healthy Living
Coordinator: Delegate of the Rector for Development Cooperation
