Fostering Sustainability @UniTs

Promoting sustainability through innovative culture and models is nowadays a top task for universities. Their commitment oriented by the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) conveys message that not "luxury" but an essential vehicle which to pursue guarantee everyone's rights, inclusion future.Solving complex problems calls collaboration among communities; aware of that, Italian universities set up RUS - University Network acts as model encourage between cities, spread social innovation at local level provide cultural awareness national level. The Trieste (UniTs) joined network in 2017. Consistent with its strategy sustainability, UniTs has implemented measures on macro-context (to raise public support research) well micro-context orientate behaviors habits community). In particular, it focused virtuous projects such waste management, based both constant reduction production optimization use materials products (i.e. paper, glass, reagents), along setting separate collection reduce disposal favor recycling. paper will refer present framework implementation new integrated projects, aimed consolidating community attentive sustainability.