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Waterford Institute of Technology has joined An Taisce’s Green Campus programme and the Institute community will now work towards the prestigious international ‘Green Flag’ award. 

Dr Yvonne Ryan of An Taisce formally registered WIT’s newly formed Green Campus Committee onto the programme which originated from An Taisce’s successful Green Schools Programme. The committee is comprised of students and staff from a range of different departments and offices around the campus.
 
The aim of the programme is to enhance environmental management on the campus through a partnership and participative approach. The Green Campus at WIT will focus initially on waste, water, energy and transport management on site.

WIT hopes to quantify its impact on the environment through environmental reviews and develop action plans and targets to prevent, reduce and mitigate these impacts in coming months and years. During the academic year beginning in September there will be several initiatives, events and awareness campaigns.

Recognising that as one of the largest organisations in the southeast, WIT has a responsibility to lead by example with regard to environmental protection, Prof Kieran R Byrne, President, Waterford Institute of Technology, said all stakeholders in the Institute community are the “agents of change”, adding that WIT can follow and, later, set an example to other schools and community groups in the region.

Dr Yvonne Ryan of An Taisce was delighted with the interest displayed by the students and staff of WIT. She stressed the importance of linking the Green Campus programme with the curriculum of the courses provided on campus - “Environmental education needs to continue into third level and, from there, in to students’ professional as well as personal lives so that they become life-long educators and ambassadors of sustainable living.” 

Green Campus is an international environmental education programme, environmental management system and award scheme that promotes long term, whole college action for the environment. It is broadly similar to the Green Schools programme and is for all third level institutions. Both programmes are initiatives of FEE (Foundation for Environmental Education) and in both cases successful applicants receive the Green Flag award. Green-Campus has been developed by An Taisce in Ireland for the FEE international network.

Green Schools began as a pilot project in 1994. Currently, over 32,000 schools from 47 countries in Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania are participating in the programme and almost 10,000 have been awarded the Green Flag.

In Ireland, Green Schools is operated by An Taisce in partnership with local authorities and is supported by the Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government and  the Department of Transport and sponsored by Repak, ESB Independent Energy and the Wrigley Company Ltd. Currently, over 3,350 primary, secondary and special schools in Ireland are participating in the programme and over 1,860 schools have been awarded the Green Flag.

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