Academic and Research Institute of Business, Economics and Management
SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY

Festival of student initiatives: how to make the university campus environmentally friendly

On April 26, 2024, as part of the Jean Monet Erasmus+ project of the European Union, “Green Campus Strategies: EU Experience for Ukrainian Universities“, the department of marketing held a festival of student initiatives, the purpose of which was to present ideas on how to make the university campus environmentally friendly.

Management, economics, and engineering students joined the restless team.

The participants presented their projects regarding:

  1. implementing green technologies and recycling at the university (Anna Kholod “Implementation of green campus practices in Ukraine and the EU: alternative energy and recycling technologies”.
  2. landscape design (Shevchenko Kateryna “Green campuses: modern solutions of landscape design”)
  3. organization of student spaces (Tereshchenko Dar’ya, Zavalna Dir’ya, P’yatachenko Yuliya, Lypovy Dmytro, Kychko Darina “Creation of modern academic spaces for the promotion of green campus ideas”)
  4. development of green infrastructure (Pavlo Tkach, Serhii Kutas “Ecological trail”)

The presented projects aroused the audience’s interest, and the festival participants shared their experiences of implementing environmental measures within the framework of the development of a green campus (Ecoweek, Ekotoloka, etc.).