The university campuses must be utilised as a living laboratory for identifying opportunities and implementing novel techniques to achieve goals and objectives. Embedding sustainability in the University’s curriculum and research will increase understanding the immediacy of environmental responsibility and driving knowledge on sustainability will give the students real-world skills they can use to improve the planet.

4.1 Key Focus Areas:

4.1.1 Learning – acquiring knowledge, skills and a mindset that allows deep connection to building sustainable future

• Increase in the number of sustainability-related courses offered over the 5 years
• Increase in the number of graduates in sustainability courses
• Providing immersive experience through excursions and field trips in Sustainability Programmes
• Assessment of sustainability literacy on yearly basis from 2023 onwards

4.1.2 Campus as living laboratory – utilising the campus as a living laboratory for students to confront real-world sustainability problems and address the planet’s environmental challenges

• Utilise campuses as a living laboratory to advance sustainability

4.1.3 Research – progressing sustainability research for safe and secure future

• Enhancing the employee’s engagement in sustainability research
• Climate change adaptation, sustainability and resilience, an overarching theme for FNU’s research
• Provision of open access for Research, inclusive of repository hosting for scholarly works