ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2"> <link href="ph.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"> </head> <body bgcolor="#f9f5e7" leftmargin="5" topmargin="4" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="492" height="21" background="images/focim_sav.gif"> <p class="titlerightclass">COPERNICUS IN THE GREEN SALON</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr height="12"> <td width="12" height="12"></td> <td valign="top" height="12"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="12"></td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p align="justify"> The <b>Higher Education For Sustainability Program</b> in <i>the House of Professors</i> invited <i>Dr. Hans-Peter Winkelmann</i>, secretary general of <i><b>COPERNICUS CAMPUS</b></i> <a href="http://www.copernicus-campus.org/" target="_parent">(www.copernicus-campus.org)</a> to give a presentation to university people of Hungary about the European University Network for Sustainability. The event took place on 6th July 2004 in the Green Salon. <br> <i>Katalin Czippán</i>, the director of the Higher Education for Sustainability Program greeted the presenters and the audience. In his speech <i>Dr. Béla Mang</i>, deputy under-secretary of state for higher education <i>(Ministry of Education)</i> talked about the coming changes of the Act of higher education and pointed out that sustainability should be present in all vocations of universities and their management, too. He emphasized that his personal experience reinforces the fact that the forms of cooperation between European universities  including COPERNICUS CAMPUS  are crucial, highly useful and worth supporting. <br> In his presentation <i>(Making Higher Education Sustainable: Do we need a Copernican Revolution?)</i> Dr. Hans-Peter Winkelmann pointed out that the aims of the Copernicus campus (launched by the CRE in 1988) are to mobilize universities to make sustainability a major focus of higher education, to enhance contact between universities in Europe for sustainability and to encourage the formation of university relationships with industry and management to support sustainable development. <br> More than 300 European universities have signed the COPERNICUS-Charter, including 11 Hungarian ones. In 2003 the annual conference of COPERNICUS CAMPUS took place at the University of Pécs, in Hungary. <br> Beside the three traditional vocations of universities (research, education/training, outreach) sustainability means a new challange for universities. The role of higher education for sustainability is not only generation and spreading of the knowledge on sustainability but also the dissemination of this knowledge to society and the implementation of sustainable practices by universities themselves. <br> Sustainability as strategy for universities should be apprehended by the concepts of efficiency, excellence and internalization. Copernicus Campus  using the models of economy  encourages the strategic alliances as models for universities to respond to globalization. <br> After the presentation the audience had some interesting remarks about sustainability in higher education in Hungary and about the possibilites of joining the Copernicus Campus. Mr Winkelmann expressed his hopes that more and more Hungarian universities will join COPERNICUS-CAMPUS in the near future. <br> </p> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <a href="folap.htm" target="right">[Return the main page]</a> <p/> </td> </tr> </table> <p></p> </div> </body> </html>