Announcement of the CZU Campus Sustainability Challenge 2023 student competition – Educational path through the CZU campus
We are looking for an interesting, innovative proposal to guide visitors through the campus and show them what we are doing for the sustainability and fulfilment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals at CZU.
The learning trail should be educational but, at the same time, playful. It should be for a broad age group of visitors, from small children to adults. It should show what we do for sustainability at CZU, and at the same time, it should motivate our students, employees, and visitors to more sustainable behaviour.
There are no limits to the design or the concept. Be creative, don't let your imagination be bound by standard ideas about educational paths. We don't expect the proposal to be a purely classic educational path with blackboards.
You shouldn't just focus on campus sustainability; you should also focus on the sustainability of the path.
Task assignment:
Observe the maximum given range.
| Item | Descriptoin | Max. range |
| 1 | ANOTATION – general description of the project (idea, summary) | 1,500 characters incl. spaces |
| 2 | MAP – prepare a proposal for the course of the educational path through the campus with 10 to 15 stops – where the trail should lead and where the individual stops should be located. Name the individual stops and briefly describe how they should be thematically focused (take into account the established measures that are installed on the campus - flower meadow (FES), clover meadow (FTA), green roofs and walls (FESII, FTA, Hi-Tech, Aula, etc.), wetland/root treatment plant (MCEVII), pond (between FFWS and Hi-Tech), rainwater storage tanks (FTA), composters, photovoltaic panels (FE, FTA, MCEV...) heat pumps from energopilots (FTA), a solar bench from the previous student competition, etc.) | A3 – the essential is the map, the text only as a legend to the map |
| 3 | STOP DESIGN - process the stop design (image, description) | A4 |
| 4 | STOP DRAFT - process the complete design of one arbitrary stop | A4 to A3 |
| 5 | BUDGET - process the budget for materials and services in a table (don't just enter the amount but describe the individual items, don't forget personal costs) - calculate 1 proposed stop | A4 |
| 6 | SUSTAINABILITY – describe sustainability within the design of individual stops from an environmental point of view but also in the context of the sustainability of the trail over time | 1,500 characters incl. spaces |
Individual stops should focus on the following topics:
- Biodiversity
- Plants (what grows here, the importance of trees, green care management)
- Birds (what lives here, support for nesting, protection against glass impacts)
- Amphibians (what lives here, protection, risks of releasing non-native species – turtles)
- Insects (what lives here, support – insect hotels)
- Water
- Water management (rainwater harvesting, water reservoirs, wetlands)
- Water in the landscape
- Implemented solutions for saving energy and reducing the impacts of climate change
- Photovoltaics and agrophotovoltaics
- Green roofs and walls (benches)
- Shading
- Garbage
- Waste prevention, sorting, composting
- Waste reduction (Filtermac – reduction of PET, ReKrabičky, etc.)
- FreeShop, SWAP events, etc.
Or other topics at your discretion
If possible, form a multidisciplinary team.
The best proposals will be awarded in the form of a scholarship.
Submission of competition proposals by May 31, 2023, in PDF format to the address dvorakovasimona@rektorat.czu.cz.
The selected teams will present their proposals to the Council for Sustainable Development in the first half of June 2023.
Proposal registration form: See download file "project-application.docx"