“Green offices are a great way to integrate education for development across universities, impact on teaching and learning, the physical campus and student life.”
Miriam Tereick
UNESCO
The Green Office is a development platform that empowers students and staff to embed development principles into curriculum, research, operations, communities and management.
Benefits of a green office:
- Empowering students and staff to launch more projects.
- Strengthening collaboration between initiatives.
- Implementing sustainability in our university.
Vision
The Green Office is the central hub where fresh minds and hands come together to support the sustainable development of KazNMU.
Our vision for a sustainable university!
• Educators encourage students to explore sustainability topics from an interdisciplinary perspective and through real-world projects.
• Researchers collaborate with NGOs, businesses and cities to find answers to sustainability challenges.
• Staff embed sustainability into buildings, laboratories and procurement. They also work with educators so that students learn by doing through sustainability projects at the university.
• Students engage with sustainability issues through student groups, course projects, volunteer programs, and internships.
• University leadership places sustainability at the center of the university’s strategy and allocates funds to implement it.
Mission – sustainability
The Green Office realizes its vision by making the university’s policies tangible in the daily lives of its students and staff by:
• informing them
• involving them
• giving them the opportunity to act
CO2-KazNMU
Strategy for achieving carbon neutrality and sustainable development
Sustainable development and climate change policy for 2024-2050
