Green Education and Transition - A Higher Education Digital Buddy

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GET-AHED will be digital platform developed in consultation with a number of EU ministries, and will provide HEIs across the EU with a range of accessible, user friendly, online tools to enable them to adapt to the green transition. GET-AHED aims to make available the following tools: HE Green Assessment (online self-assessment tool) whose design will be based on the model and principals of the EU's HEInnovate self-assessment tool. The tool will allow HEIs to assess themselves in terms of the level of integration of sustainability within their organisation across a range of indicators and dimensions. The output of using the tool will assist HEIs in the design and implementation of institution sustainability plans by (i) identifying weaknesses in current plans and activities (ii) directing users towards best practice green transition approaches, systems and training opportunities. HE Green Champions (online training system) will boost the green transition capacity of internal stakeholders by providing learning initiatives for (i) HEI leaders to help them embed sustainability into the operations of a HEI (ii) staff and students to support their involvement in sustainability initiatives both internally and externally. The HE Green Champions training system will promote and embed EU Green Transition and Sustainability priorities through its initiatives. The leader programme will provide training relevant to the sustainability dimensions and indicators of the self-assessment tool. For staff and students, the training system will offer components such as fact sheets, videos, quizzes, and training elements designed to increase awareness and drive change. Entrepreneurial training methods, such as the EU Green Mentor project outputs, will be leveraged in the design of HE Green Champions. HE Green Zero (online energy tool) dedicated to improving sustainable operations in the HEI relevant to energy and energy related systems focussed on the goal of achieving net zero energy.