1. Scottish Funding Council Sustainability policy
EAUC Conference
18 April 2007
Riona Bell Director of Funding

2. Scotland’s strategy December 2005: “Choosing our Future”
Learning a major strand
August 2006:
“Learning for our Future”
5-year action plan
Aims to make SD core to education system

3. SFC actions: Learning & Teaching
Encourage generic trans-disciplinary approaches
Higher Education Academy
Conference June 2007
Work with SQA re curriculum Design
Scottish Further Education Unit
Research into career choices
SFC On Track Survey

4. SFC actions: Research
Consider ways of improving links between learning and sustainability and environment-related research capacity
Investing in new university research centres for carbon storage and environmental sustainability
Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society

5. SFC actions: Estates
SFC’s SD guidance to be embedded in estate strategy guidance
New estate strategy guidance about to be published
SD guidance is under review
Provide a ‘one stop shop’ with EAUC-S
CaSPr
Monitor progress of SD elements in projects
Evaluation of three pathfinder projects
Guidance on high performance buildings
Review estate management data

6. ECOSpace @ Lauder College