Environmental Impact Measurement Tool
Check how your organisation impacts the environment!
Answer the statements below to the best of your knowledge. You are required to indicate whether you consider different activities as true or false from your own perspective.
General Policies
1. My organisation refers to the Sustainable Development Goals when reviewing our own green policies.
2. My organisation places the Sustainable Development Goals at the centre of the green practice strategy.
3. My organisation involves all internal stakeholders (leaders, practitioners, non-teaching staff and learners) as part of the green policy and strategy review process.
4. My organisation takes into account values and ethics that are consistent with green and sustainable development while defining our own institutional culture.
5. My organisation provides and maintains written information about environmental practices and sustainable behaviour for awareness raising of the community.
6. My organisation regularly reviews our own green policies to make sure they are in line with current needs and trends in a global scale.
7. My organisation guarantees an effective implementation of green practices through a concrete action plan that clearly indicates the measures to take and how to monitor and evaluate them.
8. My organisation provides an eco-code implemented as a code of conduct for the entire community, defining green best practices and rewarding environmental-friendly behaviours and initiatives.
9. My organisation promotes contests and other reward systems that guarantee the involvement and effective implementation of green practices.
10. My organisation organises environmental awareness events so that all workers can be involved in decision making processess.
11. My organisation reviews the environmental impact annually, in order to update the eco-code based on the emerging needs.
12. Our institutional culture is defined based on our internal stakeholders norms, beliefs and sustainable best practices.
13. My organisation uses motivational tools to promote positive behavioural change in the area of sustainability.
14. My organisation has a measurement methodology to monitor students' and teachers' awareness of environmental and sustainability issues.
15. My organisation prepares future workers for the jobs and careers that require green skills.
16. My organization helps new employees integrate into sustainable development sooner.
17. My organization conducts surveys where employees can provide their views and suggestions on sustainability.
18. My organization engages employees in decision-making processes, consults on an ongoing basis, and discovers potential disruptions.
Infrastructure and Facilities
1. My organisation implements water saving devices such as temperature control, lever taps, flow restrictors, rainwater harvesting systems, water reuse systems.
2. My organisation implements water saving measures through proactive maintenance of water systems within the infrastructure to prevent leaks, wastage and system inefficiencies.
3. My organisation uses its own internal infrastructure as a reference point and/or practical example (good or bad).
4. My organisation periodically evaluates own infrastructure and facilities to see if there are any areas for reducing environmental impact.
5. My organisation focuses not only on business impact on infrastructure and facilities used, but also evaluates their impact on the environment.
6. My organisation adapts food and waste management approach to maintain and stimulate circular economy.
7. My organisation complies with efficiency standards and environmental legislation to be recognised as an eco-friendly building.
8. My organisation conducts a yearly environmental audit to understand the needs of infrastructure modernisation and facilities management and how to tackle them.
9. My organisation has adapted its infrastructure to serve as a visitors' centre for the local community and stakeholders to engage and learn more about eco-friendly practices.
10. My organisation organises thematic exhibitions to raise community awareness of the importance of sustainable workplace practices
11. My organisation has a sustainability department focused exclusively on the development of new sustainable practices applied to the centre.
12. My organisation exchanges professionals from different centres so that they can observe and apply good practices from other centres in ours, creating a network of professionals who are aware of sustainable development.
13. My organisation is forming a professional team to develop, improve and maintain sustainable operations.
14. My organisation actively uses its live and virtual spaces (website, social media platforms) to promote its sustainable practices.
15. My organisation takes every opportunity to provide resources and tools to improve its facilities and infrastructure.
16. My organisation adapts the facilities for managing food and waste.
17. My organization has water- and energy-efficient stickers.
18. My organization reviews the requirements for modernizing infrastructure and managing facilities on an annual basis.
Vocational Education and Training
1. My organisation identifies specific green skills within course learning objectives.
2. My organisation develops courses around the skills and knowledge requirements of the future workforce.
3. My organisation consults experts when reviewing and designing programmes and courses.
4. My organisation ensures that whenever possible, green practices and approaches are integrated in VET training.
5. My organisation favours VET training that comprises reference to Sustainable Development Goals, circular economy and so on.
6. My organisation develops VET strategies that empowers learners to acquire new knowledge, skills, attitudes and responsibility towards environmental practices and environmental technological occupations.
7. My organisation is open to collaborate with other VET organisations to share educational best practices related with green practices and approaches.
8. My organisation encourages a culture of support in which learners are heard regarding their green interests and career aspirations and changes are considered and included in the curricula.
9. My organisation regularly adapts its VET strategies so as to keep up with newsest developments on environmental and sustainability topics.
10. My organisation organises group meetings with learners to encourage critical thinking and the proposal of new sustainable practices.
11. My organisation relies on professionals to organise weekly seminars on topics proposed by the learners.
12. My organisation has practical and outdoor courses, through which learners put their environmental skills and the acquired knowledge into practice.
13. My organisation works with an eco-team that is efficient and consistently productive at the planning-implementation-maintenance level.
14. My organisation is committed to promoting a cultural paradigm shift by all means.
15. Sustainability aspects and awareness-raising practices are integrated into the curricula of vocational education and training.
16. My organization holds ongoing sustainability conferences for students.
17. My organization regularly organizes seminars on sustainable development for students.
18. My organisation consults and makes recommendations to other organisations on sustainability.
Teaching and training methodologies
1. My organisation incorporates environmental approaches to traditional vocational education and training.
2. My organisation includes environmental threats and sustainable lifestyle in training curricula.
3. My organisation has a green skills assessment process.
4. My organisation seeks for teaching and training methodologies that are environmental friendly with the use of suitable ICT tools and technologies.
5. My organisation promotes a paperless approach while designing its teaching and training methodologies.
6. My organisation evaluates learners based on the green skills developed and the extent to which they integrate them in their learning paths.
7. My organisation seeks for teaching and training methodologies that are based on practical elements and interactive materials to facilitate and encourage learners' competences development.
8. My organisation ensures that at least part of its training curricula is dedicated to the learning of environmental concepts.
9. My organisation encourages the development of cooperation projects between learners and the local community to develop innovative sustainable solutions and promote behavioural change.
10. My organisation cooperates with the businesses and industry to promote relevant green work-based learning opportunities
11. My organisation´s training methodologies develop the learners’ competences and boost local green economy and change.
12. My organisation includes environmental threats and ecological living as learning topics
13. My organisation prepares students for the increased importance of green skills in future jobs.
14. It gives students the opportunity to learn sustainable practices through academic or extra-curricular activities.
15. My organisation provides resources for the development and practical application of green training methodologies.
16. My organisation has established a network of sustainable development educators.
17. My organization hosts sustainability events annually for the local community.
18. My organization constantly seeks partners for sustainable development in the country.
Staff continuous training and personal development
1. My organisation provides environmental education professional development opportunities for teachers/trainers.
2. My organisation supports teachers/trainers with suitable resources to develop green didactic materials.
3. My organisation encourages teachers/trainers to tailor existing courses to the green skills needs of the learners and industry.
4. My organisation encourages teachers/trainers to engage into network of experts and professionals to share know-how and thus to further develop their competences.
5. My organisation empowers teachers/trainers to acquire necessary ICT competences that can be used for better training delivery.
6. My organisation supports all bottom-up initiatives to upskill staff on green economy challenges.
7. My organisation empowers teachers/trainers to acquire necessary didactic competences that can be used for better training delivery.
8. My organisation encourages teachers/trainers to engage into networks of experts and professionals to share know-how on innovative teaching-learning materials for environmental education.
9. My organisation provides regular environmental education professional development opportunities for teachers/trainers based on identified teaching-learning needs.
10. My organisation organises exchanges so that trainers can learn and continue their training in other similar centres, both at national and European level.
11. My organisation cooperates with universities and specialised training centres, so that both students and trainers are further educated in environmental issues.
12. My organisation provides regular in-service training for upskill the teachers/trainers on environmental education
13. My organisation provides guidance and support to trainers in integrating sustainability concepts and practices into the curriculum.
14. My organisation assesses trainers on the extent to which they integrate green skills and practices.
15. My organisation supports and encourages trainers to participate in European and national green policy initiatives.
16. My organisation develops and amends existing programs of study to address the challenges of the green economy.
17. My organisation provides employees with every opportunity to continually learn and refresh the sustainability of knowledge.
18. Employees of my organization share good experiences with other organizations on a regular basis.
General Policies
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Infrastructure and Facilities
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Vocational Education and Training
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Teaching and training methodologies
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Staff continuous training and personal development
Based on your answers to the statements, your carbon footprint friendliness is %.
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