Implementing a sustainability plan on a small, young campus in Brazil

Abstract

The Planaltina campus (FUP) is one of four campuses that make up the University of Brasilia. With an interdisciplinary organization, FUP was established in 2006 and consists of 116 teachers, 137 staff and 1355 undergraduate and graduate students. The issue of sustainability is related to the various undergraduate courses offered and the profile of professors. However the formalization of sustainability within campus management actions began only in 2010 with the creation of a full-time coordinator of environmental issues on campus. In 2012, the issue of sustainability was formally associated with campus policies and missions from its insertion into the Institutional Pedagogical Political Project. Then, in 2019, a working group was organized to draw up a sustainability plan for the campus, which included the proposition of sustainability indicators as well as an assessment of and data collection for the first campus sustainability report. This paper presents the participatory process of preparation of the plan, as well as the indicators that make up the structure of the report. The discussion of the process is made in light of the context in which the campus is inserted.