Convenor: Michael Howroyd, University of Leeds

This CoP is open to all EAUC educational members and other invited parties to learn and share experiences in the field of biodiversity.

Convenor: Milly Clover, Nottingham Trent University

This CoP is open to EAUC educational members and other invited parties to learn and share experiences in the field of waste management including reuse and recycling, and the circular economy.

The education for sustainable development community of practice (ESD CoP) is a space for post-16 education staff working to deliver education aimed at building a fairer, more sustainable world. The group is led by the EAUC, with support from our partners at Learning for Sustainability Scotland.

Convenors:

• Christine Calder, Academic Lead, Dundee and Angus College

• Lou Mycroft, Green Changemakers Facilitator, Fircroft College of Adult Education

• Scott Strachan, Senior Teaching Fellow, Electronic And Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde

• Rehema White, Senior Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews

Open to: EAUC education members and selected external organisations supporting ESD in post-16 education. 

Most useful for: While the community has a focus on learning and teaching, staff from estates, operations, leadership, and more are also welcome to join the network. 

Mailing lists: There are two mailing lists connected to this group: one for further education and one for higher education. Please let us know which if you'd like to sign up to one or both when you email us. 

Convenors: James Daly, University of Bristol; Serena Bacuzzi, University of Edinburgh

This CoP is open to all EAUC educational members and other invited parties to learn and share experiences in relation to energy and water management.

EAUC and the Wellcome Trust have launched a Community of Practice for the Environmental Sustainability Concordat.

The Concordat for Environmental Sustainability in Research and Innovation Practice is aimed at organisations across the UK Research and Innovation Sector. Organisations from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Innovation and Research Funders and Independent Research Institutions can participate in a network practice to share ideas and best practices within the sector.

To join the group list, please email ESConcordat@eauc.org.uk the following:

• Your name

• Your organisation

• Your job title

You can also sign up for the concordat newsletter to receive the latest updates and announcements, including case studies, upcoming events and sector-related news. The newsletter will be published three times a year with occasional news and announcement updates in between. Subscribe to the newsletter by completing this form.

To sign up to be a signatory or supporter, visit the Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation Practice website.

Convenor: Emily Luby, Bishop Burton College 

This is a dedicated network to facilitate dialogue and knowledge exchange specific to the FE sector. This network is open to EAUC educational college members.

To join the FE network, email info@eauc.org.uk with the following information:

• Full name

• Job title

• Institution

Convenor: Dr. Jennifer O’Brien, University of Manchester and Advance HE

This CoP is open to all EAUC educational members and other invited parties to learn and share experiences on living labs. A university or college living lab is a means to address real-world institutional problems using a dynamic partnerships between all the institution's stakeholder groups.

Convenor: Dr Robert Wilby, Loughborough University

This CoP is open to all EAUC educational members and other invited parties to learn and share experiences in relation to managing climate risk.

The education members network is the email forum enabling you to ask questions, share and learn with your peers across the EAUC educational membership. It is only available to EAUC educational members.

Convenor: currently vacant. For an informal chat to find out more about the role, please get in touch with Claire Mitchell at cmitchell@eauc.org.uk.

This is an opportunity to connect further and higher education institutions through a dedicated network that will facilitate dialogue and knowledge exchange specific to insetting and offsetting. This group is open to EAUC educational members.

Join our Scope 3 email network to keep up-to-date on progress towards tools and shared methodologies. You can join the overarching Scope 3 network and any of the subgroups:

• Scope 3 - IT

• Scope 3 - travel

• Scope 3 - energy 

• Scope 3 - furniture

• Scope 3 - laboratories

These are open to all EAUC educational members.

Convenor: Hannah Morgans, University of Bristol

This CoP is open to all EAUC educational members and other invited parties to share best practice, tools, and platforms for communicating sustainability to your institution.

Convenor: currently vacant. For an informal chat to find out more about the role, please get in touch with Claire Mitchell at cmitchell@eauc.org.uk.

This community of practice is open to all EAUC educational members and other invited parties to learn and share best practice in relation to the running of events sustainably. This includes event management, engagement and communication.

• North East England (Convenor: Michael Harkness, Durham University)

• North West England (Convenor: Rachael Hanmer-Dwight, University of Liverpool)

• Yorkshire and Humber (Convenor: Emily Rye, University of Huddersfield)

• Midlands (Convenor: Katy Boom, University of Worcester)

• London (Co-convenors: Jemima Barnes, University of Greenwich & Florence Hale, Imperial College London)

• South West England (Convenor: Kirsti Norris, University of the West of England)

• South East England

• South Central England (Convenor: James Jackson, Arts University Bournemouth)

For more information about networks for EAUC members in Scotland, please see the EAUC Scotland page. 

Convenor: Sara Lynch, Head of Sustainability, Queen's University Belfast

The aim of this branch is to share lessons learnt and best practice so that all benefit from these experiences. It is open to all EAUC educational members in Northern Ireland and Ireland.

The Climate Education and Skills Group is a UK-wide network bringing together further and higher education, government, industry and NGOs to strengthen climate and sustainability learning across the post-16 sector, delivered in partnership between EAUC and the Grantham Institute at Imperial. The group focuses on embedding sustainability in qualifications, curricula, professional standards and institutional leadership and fostering strong partnerships to shape green skills pathways. Its current priorities include whole-organisation sustainability approaches, lifelong learning opportunities, improved careers guidance, and building shared tools and insights to influence policy and practice.

The group is open to colleagues from education, industry, government and other partners who want to collaborate on advancing climate education and green skills at a system level.

If you would like to join, contribute or find out more, please contact banechite@eauc.org.uk.

EAUC and BUFDG have set up a working group on investment management and practice.

It is a small group that will be looking at finance and sustainability issues.

BUFDG are the secretariat and Jo Chamberlain, University of Exeter and Richard Jackson, University of Bath are EAUC representatives. Andy Goor, University of St Andrews and Carol Prokopyszyn, University of Manchester are the BUFDG representatives.

It is a closed group but EAUC will feed back outputs of the group to members via enews.

View a case study from the University of Edinburgh on their approach to responsible investment.