- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Presentation
L’Université de Rouen Normandie est un établissement public pluridisciplinaire d’enseignement supérieur et de recherche, implanté au cœur de la normandie. Elle accueille près de 35 000 étudiants et s’appuie sur une communauté de plus de 2500 personnels.
Acteur majeur de la formation et de la recherche en Normandie, l’université conduit ses missions dans une attention constante portée à la démocratisation de l’enseignement supérieur, à la réussite étudiante et au développement économique, social et culturel des territoires.
Par l’activité de ses 38 laboratoires, l’Université de Rouen Normandie produit des connaissances dans l’ensemble des grands champs disciplinaires : sciences et technologies, santé, sciences humaines et sociales, droit, économie et gestion. Cette recherche, ancrée dans les disciplines, s’inscrit également dans des dynamiques transversales et partenariales, à l’échelle régionale, nationale et internationale.
Parmi ses orientations stratégiques, l’Université de Rouen Normandie fait de la transition environnementale et sociétale un des axes structurant de son projet d’établissement. Cette ambition traverse l’ensemble de ses missions : enseignement, recherche, vie de campus, partenariats. Elle traduit la volonté de former des citoyens et des professionnels capables de comprendre et d’agir sur son territoire en pleine transformation.
Planned commitments and actions
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- Training in Sustainable IT (e.g. attending a training course lasting several days)
- Establish a Sustainable IT Working Group within the organisation
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- 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
- Encourage diversity among my service providers, particularly in relation to disability issues
- 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.)
- 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
- Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data
- Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services
Actions started
- Enter a Sustainable IT labelling initiative
- Organise a Digital Cleanup Day
- 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)
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- Ensure the development of useful and efficient digital services
- Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, etc.)
- Promote work-life balance by, for example, respecting the right to disconnect and arranging for teleworking measures
- Favour the use of local and European tools in order to encourage the consolidation of players who respect the sovereignty of European data
- Encouraging territorial innovations by testing and deploying social and environmental digital products and services