Facilities and Environment

Target audience

University administration, especially real estate property and facility premises personnel and technical staff and those whose duty or interest is to develop and maintain university infrastructure (campuses, buildings, technical infrastructure, etc.) or to arrange maintenance, cleaning and other supporting services, or otherwise handle environmental issues. And all other university administrators who are interested in these issues.

Focus areas

The critical topics are currently campus development, learning environment, working environment, and sustainability. Methods of teaching, studying, and working are continuously changing, as is technology. All this affects what is expected of facilities and campuses. Digitalization is changing our ways of doing things and we have to be up to date in this process also.

Activity goals for 2023 – 2024

The main activity for the planning group as well as the target audience is the annual Conference.The main target at the moment is F&E 2023 Conference in Uppsala,  Sweden at the Swedish Universityof Agricultural Sciences and Conference will be held together with Uppsala University.

The group is also working on developing other kinds of activities for the target audience. With the purpose to create other kinds of networking – not only conferences.

The planning group normally has two or three face-to-face meetings per year to prepare for up coming conferences and other actual issues. During the most active periods of conference preparation and planning, the group has regular digital meetings every two weeks and lot of email messaging, etc.