- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
School/University
Other
120 contributors
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgique
secretariat@ecam.Be
Presentation
L'ECAM est un Institut Supérieur Industriel ayant pour objet la formation d'ingénieurs industriels (masters) dans une des spécialités suivantes : automatisation, construction, électromécanique, électronique, géomètre, informatique et santé.
L'ECAM est une institution d'enseignement et de recherche appliquée ayant une expérience centenaire dans la formation des ingénieurs.
Elle fait partie de la Haute École ICHEC-ECAM-ISFSC, laquelle appartient au réseau libre subventionné par la Communauté française de Belgique.
L’ECAM s’engage actuellement dans la transformation de ses programmes d’étude pour que les futurs diplômé·e·s soient en capacité de répondre aux défis de la transition socio-écologique (https://www.ecam.be/dd/).
L’ECAM compte actuellement 120 membres du personnel composé d’enseignants, de chercheurs, d’administratifs et d’ouvriers, et 1.3000 étudiants.
Planned commitments and actions
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- Implementing data governance of your organisation and GDPR compliance or by following the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules locally applicable data protection rules for other countries
- Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
- Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
- Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- Engage with actors in the reuse sector and/or the social and solidarity economy in the management of the end-of-life of my equipment
- Integrate environmental requirements in my calls for tender and establish a dialogue and measurement elements over the duration of the service with my suppliers
- Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- Favouring low-impact energy sources
- Plan the archiving and cleaning of data with its teams to reduce their environmental footprint
- Measure the impact of its digital services (e.g. frequency of use or energy consumption) using a multi-criteria and global approach to the entire service (equipment, servers, networks, etc.)
- Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
- Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
- Facilitate the proper semantic understanding of its digital services in a clear and educational language
- Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures
Actions started
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Implementing data governance of your organisation and GDPR compliance or by following the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules locally applicable data protection rules for other countries
- Deployment of a security plan for its digital environments (antivirus, VPN, supplier audits, permanent monitoring)
- Evaluate the robustness of its infrastructures (regular tests) and prioritise European infrastructures
- Manage my fleet with an inventory by category
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- Engage with actors in the reuse sector and/or the social and solidarity economy in the management of the end-of-life of my equipment
- Measure the energy consumption and impact of my Information System (multi-criteria analysis)
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- Favouring low-impact energy sources
- Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
- Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures