ESDW
European Sustainable Development Week
Dear colleagues, dear students, we are sure that you have already come across the word “sustainability”. It has many meanings that are sometimes difficult to identify. Sustainability is the direction in which our university is moving – a direction towards a more responsible approach to the environment, to our colleagues and to ourselves. There are a number of concrete steps we can take to achieve this goal, from making TBU buildings more energy efficient, through avoiding waste of resources, to caring for the health and mental wellbeing of everyone at the University. We are actively addressing all of these issues, but there is not enough space to describe them all. Therefore, this page will focus mainly on the Sustainability Week. A responsible university and a more welcoming approach overall is the future that awaits us. We have a number of tasks ahead of us in order to change people’s attitudes and we appreciate every initiative that wants to make a difference. After all, sustainability means a happy planet and happy people.
We would like to introduce the sustainability team at TBU in Zlín:
- Ing. Martina Juříková, Ph.D. – Vice-Rector for Internal and External Relations
- Ing. Martina Kopečková, Ph.D. – Manager for Sustainability
- Ing. Linda Machalová – Coordinator for Strategic Sustainability Partnerships
To find out what TBU is doing for sustainability, visit udrzitelnost.utb.cz or contact us at udrzitelnost@utb.cz.
New Sustainability Graphics
A large amount of news and information flows through the university’s communication channels every day. To make sure you always know which ones are related to sustainability, we have created new graphic elements.
These graphic elements will be used to tag all social media posts, events, web news and, in short, all information related to sustainability.
The author of the graphic design is our graduate Václav Kudělka, whose style can be seen on many other graphic elements used by TBU.
We hope that you will like the new graphic design and that you will always be able to see how sustainable our university is.
European Sustainable Development Week
The European Sustainable Development Week (ESDW) is a pan-European festival of events. The variety of events is huge and there is a single aim: To show that we care about the future of the world we live in.
In line with its values, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, together with other public higher education institutions involved in the UNILEAD project, has decided to participate again. The European Sustainable Development Week will take place from 20 to 26 September 2024 and will involve tens of thousands of people across Europe. There is a varied programme for everyone. Choose what interests you and enrich your world with new experiences. At the bottom of this page you will find a list of the events we are putting on at TBU. We hope you will have fun!
SWAP – Giving Things a Second Chance
Date: 23–24 September | 10:00–18:00
Location: foyer U18, foyer U15
Don’t buy, don’t throw things away! Swap! The opportunity to exchange clothes, shoes, household equipment, books, …, just anything that deserves a second chance. Bring your things that you no longer use but that could make someone else happy. Together we can extend the life cycle of goods and products. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Sustainable Development Goal: 12 – Responsible Consumption and Production
Screening of the Film – The Need to Grow
Date: 25 September | 17:00
Location: U15, lecture room 002
Soil – it may seem ordinary and yet it has a noble mission: To feed us. We have degraded this living world of incredible value to dirty clay and robbed it of its life essence, which is carbon. Let’s go down to the ground and start listening to the soil. This unconventional documentary will show us how. It will teach us why proper soil management can help with the ongoing global crisis, why carbon belongs in the ground and about the impact it has on the global warming. Let’s give back the soil what belongs to it and the soil will repay us.
Screening of a film with an optimistic message that will make us appreciate bio-waste more than ever before.
Sustainable Development Goals: 4 – Quality Education, 15 – Life on Land
Healthy, Sustainable and Tasty Meals in the TBU Refectory
Date: 23–26 September | during opening hours
Location: refectory U4, refectory U5, restaurant U13
Every morning, start your day with a delicious breakfast in the U13 Restaurant. And, since breakfast is the most important meal of the day, why not try something new and healthy? On Monday, 23 September 2024, we invite you to a small tasting – you will definitely be pleasantly surprised. The TBU Refectory has prepared a special menu for you.
Our cooks in the U4 and U5 Refectories are very busy, plenty of novelties will be up for grabs.
Sustainable food can be healthy and tasty. See for yourself and choose your favourite from a selection of vegan dishes prepared by the Refectory especially for this week.
After a good meal, you often get a craving for dessert. Healthy desserts made to recipes from Marie Baťová’s cookbook entitled “99 Sweet Endings” will allow us to have a dessert after a meal without feeling stress and guilt. The HRR guarantees that original high-quality ingredients are used which form the basis of the recipes.
If you are interested in the food of the future, there will also be a variety of insect desserts on offer. Roasted insects, insect flour or insect chips will delight your taste buds, provide the body with the necessary nutrients (they contain up to 70 g of protein per 100 g of insects, much less fat than beef, and are full of antioxidants, amino acids and vitamins), and are environment-friendly as well.
Sustainable Development Goal: 3 – Good Health and Well-Being
Outdoor Learning
Date: 20–26 September
Location: grassy area behind the parking lot on the FLCM campus, area in front of the FaME/University Park next to FaME
What about an unconventional start of the semester? We will have classes outdoors. We have a lot of beautiful classrooms and laboratories at the University, however, outdoor learning can give us a completely different perspective. Increasing the amount of fresh air you have can provide greater clarity to the brain, therefore, we believe that you will gain knowledge more easily than usual. If you plan to have your classes outdoors, please let us know by tagging it on social networks!
Sustainable Development Goals: 3 – Good Health and Well-Being, 4 – Quality Education