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Governance

TU Dresden has established structures, transparent processes, and diverse initiatives in all
hierarchical levels at the university, and these are already helping to shape the process of
developing toward an environmentally and climate-friendly university and will contribute to
the implementation of sustainability goals in the future. This process began at the same
time as the restructuring of the university following German reunification in the 1990s.
The Environment Commission, founded in 1991, is the central university committee that
advises the University Executive Board on the strategic direction of TU Dresden with regard
to environmental and climate protection, and steers the implementation of specific measures.
In its environmental guidelines first published in 2000, TU Dresden has acknowledged its
responsibility to incorporate environmental protection concerns as an important basis for
decision-making in all organizational units of the university. With the establishment of the
Team for Ecological Sustainability as an information and exchange platform and the creation
of a Green Office in 2021, TU Dresden has significantly strengthened the structures that
enable networking between the various initiatives and stakeholders both within the university
and beyond. The student environmental initiative (tuuwi) reaches students directly and
actively involves them with its topics and offers.

This development process has resulted in numerous impulses for ecological
sustainability at TU Dresden, which are now to be strategically implemented and
ingrained in an institutional culture of sustainability in all organizational units and
areas of activity. The promotion of sustainability awareness and individual
responsibility is of particular relevance in internal communication processes.

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