Participate!

Become part of HOCH^N, the German network for a sustainable Higher Education Institutions landscape

HOCH^N pursues the goal of promoting sustainable development at Higher Education Institutions in Germany. As a partner of HOCH^N, you become part of a nationwide network for sustainable development at Higher Education Institutions. Your impulses in the network are at the same time impulses for others to participate. On a regular basis, you will be informed how the development towards a more sustainable higher education landscape is progressing and how you actively participate in this process. In addition, the participants of the network benefit from a topic- and demand-specific networking with other university actors and receive early access to the contents of the research project. As a network of partners, HOCH^N thus enables joint learning and cooperative consultation.

HOCH^N connects the sustainable higher education landscape not only inter- but also transdisciplinary: partners from industry, politics and society are regularly involved in research and project work. Being part of this movement gives plenty of energy for the engagement in one's own institution.

The HOCH^N-sustainability map

The HOCH^N network as the starting point for sustainable development landscape in higher education spans the whole of Germany and connects all contributing people and institutions who are part of the project by being involved and assuming repsonsibility for it. Help ensure that our map is filled with additional green combs and that the sustainable higher education landscape is more broadly and intensively networked: Become part of HOCH^N, either as a partner for a sustainable university landscape (individual) or as a partner university (institution). For further details on how to join the HOCH^N network free of charge, please refer to the next section or contact us(netzwerk"AT"hoch-n.org) directly.

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You and your Higher Education Institution should not be missing in a presentation of the sustainable university landscape? Participation is easy, feel free to contact us: netzwerk"AT"hoch-n.org

Participate, contribute, share responsibility: The structure of the HOCH^N network

The following table summarizes the criteria for the participation at HOCH^N as well as the many advantages of the partnership network. From interested parties to partner institutions - this is how you can become part of the HOCHN network:

Participation in HOCH-N: Requirements and advantages

Overview of the HOCH^N network structure

1. Participate

2. Contribute

3. Assume responsibility

The entry into the nationwide HOCH^N network on sustainability at universities is a three-stage process:

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Partner for a sustainable Higher Education Institutions landscape

Individual of a German Higher Education Institution with an interest in promoting sustainability in its institution.

One or more individuals of a Higher Education Institution are visibly committed to sustainability and become personal partners in the HOCH^N network.

The entire Higher Education Institution becomes an official partner institution within the HOCHN network.

Type of networking:

personally

institutionally

Requirements:

Establishment of contact

Visible personal commitment in the form of projects for sustainability in teaching, research, operations, sustainability reporting, transfer and/or governance
Participation in HOCH^N events

Based on level 2, at least two additional top-down criteria must also be fulfilled:

Application of the sustainability code (HS-DNK)
Published Sustainability Report
Established sustainability committee
Commitment to sustainability (e. g. in the mission statement)

Alternatively, a bottom-up criterion can be fulfilled:

Ten partners from different departments of the institution, coordinate themselves independently

Vorteile:

Exchange with like-minded people
Hoigh level of information
Free participation in HOCH^N events (Reimbursement of travel expenses is possible in some cases)
HOCH^N is basically free of charge

Visibility on the HOCH^N-Sustainability map as a partner for a sustainable Higher Education Institution landscape
Collegial learning and peer counselling in the partner network (topic and demand-specific networking with other actors)
Close networking with key players in the German and international sustainability scene

Visibility on the HOCH^N-Sustainability map as a HOCH^Npartner institution
Status as a HOCH^N partner institution offers the possibility of systematic visualisation and appreciation of one's own sustainability activities
Use of the HOCH^N logo in the external presentation of the university
Influence on a sustainable development of the German higher education landscape

Other actors in the HOCH^N network:

HOCH^N affiliated institution

The eleven Higher Education Institutions that form the project network and carry out research in seven work packages, are designated as affiliated institutions.

HOCH^N cooperation partner

Advisory board, promoters, other networks and organisations, etc.

HOCH^N multipliers

Addressees of the information distributor

Good reasons to join HOCH^N

HOCH^N is aimed at the entire German higher education landscape: Universities, technical universities, colleges of music and art, pedagogical colleges and all kinds of universities of applied sciences are welcome partners. This also includes universities of private institutions.

The motives as a person or institution at HOCH^N are as diverse as the German higher education landscape, and they have a say in the work and, in the end, are responsible for sustainable development in higher education:

Your university is active in sustainability research and teaching with a focus on sustainability, or would like to strengthen its focus on it?
You would like to introduce a sustainability reporting or already report?
Does your university have a voluntary commitment to a resource-conserving operation or do you want to achieve this?
Are you looking for solutions for the implementation of sustainability at your Higher Education Institution that meet a research/practice orientation and would like to share your experiences with other universities?
Your university is interested in a structured exchange of experience and knowledge and is open to common learning processes?
Is there a permanent contact for sustainable development in your Higher Education Institution?
Or do you and your institution simply want to make a substantial contribution to the current transformation to a sustainable and therefore future-oriented society?

Regardless of how the current status of your university to a more sustainable orientation is, you are a valuable partner for the HOCH^N network. If you are interested, please let us know and visit one of our numerous events. We look forward to your commitment and to hearing from you - because together we can achieve more!

The Universities of Hamburg and Bremen are responsible for the project work package "Networking" and thus the contact persons for the expansion of the HOCH^N network. Work package manager in Hamburg is Dr. Claudia Schmitt and work package manager in Bremen Prof. Dr. Georg Müller-Christ.

The operative contacts are Bror Giesenbauer in Bremen and Wolfgang Denzler in Hamburg.

Mail: netzwerk"AT"hoch-n.org
Tel.: +49 40 42838 1505

Universität Bremen Universität Hamburg

All Photos: Markus Scholz/scholzfoto.de

The illustrations/icon images used in the map and the overview table are from thenounproject.com and were created by the individual authors listed below. "Museum" by Michael V. Suriano; "Team", "People" and "Person" by Wilson Joseph. The modified versions of these images/illustrations are used in the Creative Commons license Attribution 3.0 United States, CC BY 3.0 US.

Participate!

Become part of HOCHN, the German network for a sustainable Higher Education Institutions landscape

The HOCHN-sustainability map

Participate, contribute, share responsibility: The structure of the HOCHN network