The University of Gothenburg developed an environmental management system to train internal auditors as required by Swedish law. They set up a 3 day training program covering ISO 14001, legislation, environmental aspects, auditing and reporting. Hundreds of auditors from the University and other organizations have been trained. Next steps include exchanging audit services with other groups and expanding the training to incorporate sustainability. The partnership approach has been a win-win for teaching and learning.

1. 2012 Symposium
The Power of Partnership
Case Study:
Teaching and learning – a case of
win-win
Ullika Lundgren &
Marianne Dalbro
Environmental Controllers
Environmental Unit
miljo@gu.se
www.gu.se/miljo

2. Case Study Authors
• Ullika Lundgren and Marianne Dalbro
• Environmental Controllers at University of
Gothenburg, Sweden
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3. About Our Campus
• 8 faculties – 44 departments
• The Sahlgrenska Academy – pharmacy, medicine,
odontology and health care sciences
• The Faculty of Science
• The Faculty of Arts
• The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts
• The Faculty of Social Sciences
• School of Business, Economics and Law
• The Faculty of Education
• The IT Faculty
Gothenburg
Gothenburg
• 37,000 students, 26,370 full-time students
• 134 educational programmes
• 2,127 courses
• 5,338 employees
• 385,800 square meters building area
• 500 million Euro total income/revenue
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4. Case Study Description
• Legislation: All Swedish State Authorities should
implement an environmental management
system
• That includes that all authorities should have staff
of trained competent environmental auditors to
carry out internal environmental audits
• Who could do this?
• The University of Gothenburg has trained its own
staff since 2004.
• We could do it!
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5. Key Outcomes
• The University of Gothenburg was assigned by the Swedish EPA to
perform training for authority staff.
• The University set up a training during three days for internal
environmental auditors
– First day: ISO 14001 and Swedish legislation about EMS, basics about
environmental aspects, target-setting, follow-ups and the role of
environmental auditors
– Second day: European and Swedish Environmental Legislation.
Applications on actual activities at departments. How to interpreting
legislation texts. How to know how to comply to the law.
– Third day: Environmental Audit Exercise at different departments at
the University or at the EPA in Stockholm. How to write a report. How
to conduct a closing meeting with department officials.
• Several hundreds of internal environmental auditors has been
trained by the University of Gothenburg.
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6. Next Steps
• We teach and we learn a lot! We make new friends!
• Today we exchange the service of internal
environmental auditors with other stakeholders, for
example The Opera in Gothenburg.
• This autumn we might train and further exchange
internal auditors with The Police Authority.
• Could we do better? Other parts that should be
involved in the training?
• How travel from environment to sustainability in this
issue?
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