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Table 5: Zero paper policy

VET provider with +250 staff and +1000 full time learners. It offers training in the
Organisation context:
areas of tourism and hospitality.
Overview of the best
Zero-paper policy
practice:
Sustainable practices
Digital transformation. Sustainable delivery.
covered:
Green skills and competencesVET stakeholders such as teachers and learners had to gain digital skills to be able
applied/fostered: to use the new platforms that replaced paper-based teaching.

The zero-paper policy stimulated the VET provider’s communication channels to
Impact on leadership /
raise awareness among all the VET’s community towards environmental protection.
governance:
It also promoted the greater use of digital platforms.
VET professionals had to adapt to the zero-paper policy and restructure
Impact on pedagogical staff:
the learning contents and methods of their classes.
The zero-paper policy was quite challenging for learners, that needed to adapt to
Impact on learners:
the new learning contents and methods.
The zero-paper policy was quite challenging for VET professionals, that needed to
Challenges faced: adapt their teaching methods, and learners, that needed to adapt to the new
learning contents and methods.
Based on the efforts of the VET provider, it is believed that this good practice can be
Potential for wider
widely applied. It is suggested that other institutions do a general auditory to
application:
identify what can be improved and the new practices that need to be implemented.

Table 6: Carbon footprint friendly travel

It is an online training project. It has been offering face-to-face courses, blended
and online courses for more than 40 years, and has trained more than 110,000
students, with a background of 4 million teaching hours behind it. Thanks to the
Organisation context:
relationship it maintains with the most important companies n this country, it acts
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as a bridge to the working world when they need qualified personnel, since many
of its managers and part of its staff have been students of the organization.
What the organisation pointed out as a good practice is that when they have to
Overview of the best practice: travel for work to provide training in other communities or training courses for
students, they do take into account the carbon impact.

Sustainable practices covered: Travel and Transport
Green skills and
Not provided
competences applied/fostered:
Impact on leadership According to the organization, since it is not a practice per se, for the moment it
/ governance: hasn´t had a crucial impact on the organization's management.
It has helped insofar as the professionals they travel with, as well as their
students, take into account the footprint left by the use of transportation such as
Impact on pedagogical staff:
airplanes, unnecessary private transportation. The vast majority of transportation
bookings take these factors into account.
According to the response, it has not directly influenced the students, but they
Impact on learners:
will keep it in mind for future experiences.

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