| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 46.23 |
| Liaison | Martín Sánchez Gutiérrez |
| Submission Date | June 29, 2024 |
Tecnológico de Monterrey – Campus Chihuahua
AC-6: Sustainability Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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3.42 / 10.00 |
6.1 Percentage of academic departments engaged in sustainability research
Number of academic departments engaged in sustainability research:
Annotated list or inventory of the institution’s sustainability research by department:
Description of the process used to identify the institution’s sustainability research:
Each academic division and department must comply each year with a certain numer of reasearchers and sustainability focused papers in their derpartments in order to keep a certain level with standars and publications. Campus Chihuahua inventory follows a system wide criteria identifying each Campus's departments and their multidisciplinary research groups per department:
- Initial exploratory process: TEC's team applying STARS started an initial exploration in the university's website, specifically looking for sections related to sustainability initiatives, or environmental studies. Tec's repository already dedicates pages or sections highlighting their sustainability research efforts.
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Research groups and departments: With the help of the national research office databases, centers or institutes within the different departments and their research departments that focus on sustainability or related areas are documented using these databases. Keywords included in these mapping were, SDG's impact, environmental studies, sustainability focused themes such as: climate change, waste managment, renewable energies, sustainable innovation, etc.
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Faculty profiles: with the support of the national research office, the profiles of faculty members in departments related to sustainability, environmental science, or other relevant disciplines were reviewed. Research interests, publications, grants, and collaborations that are specifically related to sustainability research were documented from the original databases.
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Collaborations and partnerships: Research collaborations or partnerships that TEC has with external organizations or institutions in sustainability-related fields were documented. These collaborations provide us with further information about the university's involvement in sustainability research outside Tec's databases.
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Conversations with professors and researchers of excellence: conversations with professors, researchers, or graduate students who specialize in sustainability research or are involved in related projects tooke place during the whole documentation process. They provided us with firsthand information about ongoing research initiatives and future directions.
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Final documentation process: after all the information was documented and analyzed, a final review was developed by the STARS Team at Tec, following the methodology criteria and using a similar algorythm used in the course offering mapping, using key words filtering explicitly related research to sustainability topics, eg. "climate change, adaptation, ecotechonologies, circular economy, circular water managment, etc".
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following two figures:
Points earned for indicator AC 6.1:
6.2 Incentives for sustainability research
Description of the sustainability research incentives for academic staff:
Through a joint effort by Novus and Ruta Azul, the sustainability initiative at Tecnologico de Monterrey, a new track was created for the 2023 call for proposals: "Education for Sustainable Development".
Through this collaboration, 7 projects were funded with $1.2M MXN. All participants will get mentoring and orientation for impact measurement, statistical analysis and academic writing. An academic production of at least 3 conference publications and 2 journal publications is expected from these projects.
Novus has designed an impact assessment strategy for these projects that considers both learning outcomes and impact on teaching and is complemented by measuring students' engagement towards the innovation and their sustainability index.
Does the institution provide incentives for students to conduct sustainability research?:
Description of the sustainability research incentives for students:
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:
Optional documentation
Additional documentation for this credit:
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.