The fourth edition of the Academic Citizens' Budget of the University of Gdańsk and the second edition of Green University of Gdańsk are starting - submit your ideas!

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Do you have an idea for an interesting investment that will increase the functionality and attractiveness of the campus or contribute to improving the quality of life and work of the members of our university's academic community? Or are you interested in transforming the University in the spirit of care for the environment and sustainable development? Submit your project to the fourth edition of the Academic Citizens‘ Budget of the University of Gdańsk or to the second edition of the “Green UG” competition.

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Academic Citizens’ Budget UG

As in previous years, the call for applications for the Academic Citizens‘ Budget of the University of Gdańsk (’ACB UG") is open in April.

This is the fourth edition of the competition. In the three previous editions, 8 projects selected by the academic community of our university were implemented on the university campuses in Gdańsk Oliwa and Sopot in the first two years of the competition. 4 more ideas, which turned out to be the best in the previous year, are in the implementation preparation stage.

ACB UG is a competition in which UG employees, students and doctoral students can submit their ideas for the development of the university throughout April. Infrastructure projects - both investment and renovation projects - as well as material projects involving the purchase of materials, equipment and furnishings are eligible for the competition. The list of projects submitted to ACB UG excludes so-called ‘soft projects’, such as cultural, sports or social events, and so-called ‘green projects’, which can be submitted to the Green University of Gdańsk competition taking place at the same time.

Projects for ACB UG can be submitted electronically in the Employee Portal and Student Portal, as well as on the website abo.ug.edu.pl.

As in previous years, a pool of funds in the amount of 200,000 PLN has been allocated for the implementation of ACB UG in the 2025 edition, with an equal amount of 100,000 PLN for projects submitted by employees and 100,000 PLN for those submitted by students and doctoral students.

The regulations and the most important information about the competition are available on the website abo.ug.edu.pl.

Green UG

In parallel to ACB UG, a call for applications is being held for the second edition of the Green University of Gdańsk competition.

Green University of Gdańsk is an initiative implemented as part of the SEA-EU 2.0 project financed by Erasmus+, supporting the green transformation of the University of Gdańsk through a series of activities, indicated in the Competition Regulations. Its aim is to encourage the academic community of the University of Gdańsk to participate in the ecological and social transformation of our campus.

In the first edition of the competition, which took place last year, a total of five projects were selected by the academic community of the University of Gdańsk. More on this here.

80,000 PLN has been allocated for the implementation of projects within the Green University of Gdańsk competition in this year's edition of the competition. The cost of implementing a single project may not exceed 40,000 PLN.

Projects submitted to the Green University of Gdańsk competition should include materials and/or equipment that can be used to implement the following activities, among others:

  • initiatives aimed at reducing the consumption of paper and other office supplies (shared printer);
  • rainwater management, green waste, composting;
  • effective waste separation;
  • reduction of electricity, water and other resource consumption;
  • purchase of solar-powered or other charging stations for electronic devices, e.g. stationary bikes that generate electricity;
  • repair stations;
  • bicycle racks;
  • information boards to raise awareness of sustainability among the academic community, e.g. showing real-time electricity and water consumption;
  • Other initiatives supporting the green transformation of the University of Gdańsk
  • Installations and systems for collecting and storing rainwater
  • ECO zones - purchase of equipment (e.g. recycled furniture, energy-saving lighting) for the arrangement of spaces intended for meetings, workshops and events promoting the zero waste idea.

Projects concerning the creation of community gardens are excluded from the Green UG competition.

Employees, students and doctoral students submit their projects in mixed teams, consisting of at least one student or doctoral student and one academic teacher or administrative employee of the UG, which is a prerequisite for participation in the competition.

Projects for the Green UG competition can be submitted electronically via the Employee Portal and Student Portal, as well as on the website zielony.ug.edu.pl.

The rules and regulations and the most important information about the competition are available here.

Participants in both competitions have until 30 April this year to submit their ideas.

Voting for projects in both competitions will take place

from 20 to 27 October, and the results will be announced at the beginning of November.

We encourage you to actively participate in both initiatives!

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Piotr Szpajer/CPC