Tecnológico de Monterrey – Campus Chihuahua
IL-6: Sustainability Research Inventory

As part of the National Initiative to participate with 10 Campuses using STARS, we implemented a process to analize and quatify all the institution's research efforts. Campus Chihuahua inventory follows a system wide criteria identifying each Campus's departments and their multidisciplinary research groups per department:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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 key words group used in the course offering documentation, using key words filtering explicitly related to sustainability topics.
7. Campus Chihuahua has 3 major investigation and research project that have been developed during the last years, to complete the researh inventory, we gathered the information about these projects and linked each one with the SDG that is helping to achieve. Each one is described in the attached xml document.