Shaping our sustainability strategy to 2030
We aspire to be a leading sustainable University, one that contributes to the world’s agenda for sustainable development
About the project
Developing our strategy
Over the past five years, we’ve become known as one of the UK’s top-rated Universities for sustainability. We asked our communities to help set our ambition to make even greater strides over the next ten years, shaping our strategy to 2030.
Since the start of 2021, we have been engaging with our communities – including students, staff members, external partners, and local residents to shape our Leadership in Sustainability Strategy (2022-26), which sets out how we will remain a leading, sustainable university and play our part in tackling the environmental and societal challenges facing our world.
We undertook a series of workshops, meetings, and surveys to give our communities the opportunity to share their thoughts on what we need to do to remain a leading sustainable university to 2030 and beyond. Our stakeholders comments and views were taken on board, along with further national and international commitments, targets and sector best practise, to develop the goals for our new strategy.
Engaging our students
We worked with our student sustainability ambassadors and MetMUnch students to develop this video, which was shared with all staff, students and the community to promote opportunities to contribute toward the strategy development.
Thank you
Thank you to everyone that contributed their ideas. Through the consultation, 150 colleagues and students attended one or more of our workshops, and we received nearly 400 survey responses – all of which helped us set priorities for our strategy.
Now that the Leadership in Sustainability Strategy (2022-26) has been developed, our next task is to ensure that our students and staff understand how they can contribute towards the delivery of the strategic goals and objectives set out in the strategy. The Sustainability team will be meeting with departments and individuals across the University to deliver interactive workshops so that our communities understand what they can do in their role at Manchester Met (whether a student or member of staff) to embed sustainability in all that we do.
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Contact us
Contact us
If you have a question or would like to share your thoughts on our proposed strategy goals, please get in touch with us.