Our university improved its ranking by 25 places in this year’s University of Indonesia GreenMetric summary, launching the Sustainability Flagship Program from here.
Eötvös Loránd University’s newly announced Sustainability Flagship Program for the new rector cycle aims to make sustainability a fundamental value for the university’s operation and culture in the future. This will permeate all the university’s core activities, operations, community building, and the data-driven and measurable institutional sustainability practices.
The University rests on stable foundations, as the sustainability approach has already been reflected in the institution's operation in recent years. An important proof of this is ELTE’s presence and achievements in international university rankings with a sustainability focus.
The UI GreenMetric was first announced in 2010, with 95 institutions participating at the time, while this year, 1,745 universities from 105 countries entered the competition. Despite the strong international field, ELTE ranked 400th this year, improving its position by 25 places compared to last year. With this, ELTE became fourth in the Hungarian field, where a total of 13 Hungarian universities competed.
The UI GreenMetric university sustainability questionnaire processes six topics: location and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste and water management, transportation, education. These topics count in the overall score in varying proportions, with water management having the smallest weight and energy and climate change having the largest weight.
ELTE performed especially well in education/research (research, formal and informal education, scientific articles, grants), water management, energy, and infrastructure, and it also maintains its standing in waste management (Together for an Environmental Awareness program) and transportation. The institution ranks in the top five hundred in five of the six areas, and globally in the top three hundred in education and research.
A new element this year was the examination of how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are implemented in university operations, so the sustainability aspects assigned to each sub-area were also evaluated. Between 7–17 UN SDGs are reflected in each sub-area, depending on whether they are relevant to the given topic.
At the top of the overall sustainability list stands Wageningen University (Netherlands), followed by University College Cork and Nottingham Trent University. Among the top ten, there are two German, one Italian, one English, one Irish, two Dutch, two American, and one Brazilian university.