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Governance

TU Dresden has established structures, transparent processes, and diverse initiatives in all hier-
archical 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 imple-
mentation of specific measures. In its environmental guidelines first published in 2000, TU Dresden
has acknowledged its responsibility to incorporate environmental protection concerns as an import-
ant 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 networ-
king 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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