Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 76.52
Liaison Maria Kirrane
Submission Date July 28, 2022

STARS v2.2

University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.96 / 3.00 Maria Kirrane
Sustainability Officer
Office of the Director of Buildings and Estates
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Total number of employees:
3,277

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
3,277

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
100

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
Green Campus Programme

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):

UCC Green Campus programme is driven by a student and staff committee, which is open to any member of UCC staff to join. The committee sits regularly to plan campaigns and projects around the themes of Green Campus - waste, water, energy, transport, biodiversity and climate change. The programme is based around the ISO14001 energy management system. Peer-to-peer outreach occurs through the committee itself and events that are open to the entire UCC community to attend.
As part of Green Campus, UCC's "Saver Saves" scheme directly targets staff in 13 of the university's most significant energy using buildings. Green Teams are set up within these buildings; the teams are representative of all staff working within the buildings. Team members are provided with information and resources to develop the their own unique programme for their department building. The university's energy manager and sustainability officer work closely with those staff members to implement campaigns around sustainability within their buildings.


A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):

The Green Campus Programme is open to any member of staff to get involved. The Saver Saves scheme is open to any member of staff within the target buildings. A member of staff within a technical/operational/managerial role within the building is usually targeted to drive this scheme.


Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
100

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
50

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
2

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
1,000

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :
Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
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Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
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Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
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A brief description of all other employee peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained employee educators (all other programs):
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Number of weeks, on average, the employee educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (all other programs):
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Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all other programs):
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Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
1,000

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.31

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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