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The building blocks and their implementation
    Staff Involvement/Public Relations Work
(building block EM 10)

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  Besides training courses, other measures are also required to inform, motivate and involve the staff in order to be able to implement environmental measures as effectively as possible. This building block therefore contains the involvement of university members and related (internal) public relations work. Environmentally friendly behaviour can be encouraged by keeping all staff informed about relative projects within the framework of the environmental management system (exhibitions, brochures, articles), as well as voluntary participation in environmental management (working groups, environmental clubs). It is recommended to establish a suggestion pool in order to involve as many members of staff as possible.

In its environmental guidelines the University of Osnabrück committed itself to conduct "open discussions" and carry out "specific public relations work". As a pilot project for this building block measures to implement the new waste concept were organised in the first half year of 1998. This included extensive public relations work, a "waste project group", excursions, a waste action week and a "waste and dangerous materials day".

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