Environmental sustainability has become one of the main priorities of countries and institutions in the last couple of years. At the same time, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from aviation keep increasing as flying becomes more affordable.  

Higher education is no exception here, with student and staff mobility growing year by year, and showing no sign of stopping. Higher education institutions (HEIs), on one hand, want to increase their international mobility and, on the other, want to reduce their ecological impact. Although many have already taken actions to tackle this issue, there is still a lot of uncertainty regarding which measures to take in order to efficiently deal with this issue.

Originally planned as an event in Brussels, the Making Higher Education Institutions’ Exchange and Mobility Greener webinar took place on April 28th and gathered about 150 participants interested in the topic of greener mobility. It was organised by the Swiss National Agency Movetia, SwissCore and the Erasmus Student Network, in a joint effort to discuss not just ongoing initiatives by various institutions and organisations, but also  to reflect on what can be done on national and European level to better reconcile international exchange and climate action. 

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