Jane Yau at the European Commission’s MSCA Green Charter Update group meeting

• Jane Yau (Project Manager, Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education)
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On 29.11.2024, Jane was invited to join the European Commission group together with around 30 other researchers working in the domain of sustainability. The event took place at Brussels as a kick-off workshop to start updating the MSCA Green Charter, which is an important document and includes a code of good practice for European projects. The last revision of the document did not include aspects such as computing usage and sustainability measures. During the meeting, Jane also shared details of GREAT with the group and the project ambitions.

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General principles of the Green Charter (taken from the MSCA Green Charter website)

“The sustainable implementation of your research project starts at the planning stage and continues throughout the lifetime of the project. The goal of the MSCA Green Charter is to encourage sustainable thinking in research management.

Some measures individuals and institutions are invited to consider are to

  • reduce, reuse and recycle
  • promote green purchasing for project-related materials
  • ensure the sustainability of project events
  • use low-emission forms of transport
  • promote teleconferencing whenever possible
  • use sustainable and renewable forms of energy
  • develop awareness on environmental sustainability
  • share ideas and examples of best practice“

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