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The University will
encourage staff to carry out research in areas consistent with the University's environmental objectives.
It has been a long time since the University of Tuscia has engaged itself to propose the research
results of its departements to the farmers, to make possible the pesticides substitution with
integrated. For this reason the University gives advises and organizes meetings with
farmers and experts of this kind of problems.
Since 1980 the University of Tuscia has been organizing refresher courses for primary and
secondary school teachers, to give them the multidisciplinary dimension of environmental
education as a process of pedagogical innovation and cultural rielaboration to show the
advantages of a school education directed to train the ecological culture, that will be necessary to make
people ready to live in a planetary dimension.
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The University will
seek to minimize consumption of materials and promote appropriate use of recycled materials.
The University of Tuscia as other Universities uses a lot of paper. In order to minimize the impact
on the environment, the University, for many years has been involved in paper recycling.
The University also promotes organic wastes recycling by composting them.
The University will
avoid unnecessary use of hazardous materials and technologies and undertake the appropiate procedures to prevent risks
where such materials are in essential use.
Solvent wastes are collected by technicians and stored in large drums until authorized carriers remove
them. Where hazardous materials and wastes are concerned, the University of Tuscia has adopted a disposal
system and is continually monitoring and improving these.
The University will
try to minimize its impact on the environment
An University in expansion as the University of Tuscia is, needs new structures for its students. In order to
minimize the impact of new buildings on the territory, the University of Tuscia has chosen to restore the
monumental complex of S. Maria in Gradi. In this way the University has obtained about 50,000 m
3 for its academic activities, and moreover has restored, after more than one
century, a wonderful artistical and historical complex to the city.
The University will
reduce the detrimental impact of vehicles by encouraging reduction in car use, promoting the use of less
environmental damaging means of transport.
The University of Tuscia has been working with the municipality of Viterbo to increase the bus services
from the city to the University, but also to strengthen the train and bus connections for the
students and staff coming from other towns and villages.
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The University will
encourage staff and students to play a full and active part in achieving a positive environmental impact
in the community.
The Tuscia University promotes and funds several associations, that are committed in environmental projects.
The associations involved and their initiatives are:
- A.U.C.S. (University Association for Cooperation and Development)
The association has organized the film festival "Images of the South of the world", and a series of
seminars on agriforestries.
It also has promoted the convention "The sustainable cotton"
- A.U.S.F. (Universitary Association Forestry Students)
Every year the association proposes the project "Forest fire prevention and fighting". It has also
organized the exhibition "The woods: images and poetry" and the convention
"Protection of forest fire: planning intervention".
- G.U.F.O. (University Fauna and Ornithology Group)
For many year the association has been engaging itself in a project of census and protection of swans and
falcons on the Messina Strait.
It also proposes a birdwatching program.
The association has organized
the exhibition "Viterbo's environments" and it is involved in projecting an atlas of hesting and
wintering birds in the city of Viterbo.
- G.E.A. (Group) of Environmental Education
The Association has organized the convention "The child meets the nature".
The association has
developed the project "A garden for us", for the creation of a wildlife garden in a primary school.
It also works for other two projects: "Environmental education" and "The children and the
officinal herb".
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The Partners
This project is undertaken with the following European partners, all of who
have signed the global environmental Talloires Declaration.
Schools and Web
Corporate Environmental Reporting
Environmental Educational Sites
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