- Signatory of the Sustainable IT Charter
Presentation
L’Université de Strasbourg est l’une des plus grandes universités de France. Elle accueille aujourd’hui 57 000 étudiants dont 20% d’étudiants internationaux (80 nationalités) et 7 000 enseignants et chercheurs, personnels techniques et administratifs. Forte de ses 35 facultés, écoles, instituts, 78 laboratoires et unités de recherche, et 2000 coopérations dans 95 pays, elle se distingue par la pluridisciplinarité et l’interdisciplinarité de son offre de formation qui couvre l’ensemble des disciplines de l’enseignement supérieur.
L’Université de Strasbourg s'engage dans la transition socio-écologique pour les générations futures. Le développement durable et la responsabilité sociétale constituent des axes importants de la stratégie de l'établissement. Afin d'accompagner tous ces changements et infuser toute l'université, une mission développement durable et responsabilité sociétale a été créée.
Planned commitments and actions
- Raise awareness on Sustainable IT (e.g. information workshop, MOOC, dissemination of good practice guides)
- Communicate to its stakeholders on the actions taken
- Measure the lifespan of my equipment by type
- Favour the purchase of sustainable equipment (reparability and durability criteria)
- 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)
- Reduce the environmental impact of its services: weight of images, videos, plugins, by favouring simpler or less energy-consuming solutions
- Make its digital services accessible to as many people as possible (even in the event of poor connection quality, disability, etc.)
Actions started
- 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
- Ensuring that its suppliers and service providers comply with their GDPR requirements or follow the principles of the GDPR in compliance with locally applicable data protection rules for other countries, environmental, social and diversity
- Avoid unnecessary energy consumption e.g. by switching off at night, weekends and holidays
- Favouring low-impact energy sources
- 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
- 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