Over the past few years, our university has made efforts to upgrade its green spaces, improve their quality and integrate them more effectively into normal teaching, research and third mission activities.

Some of these actions are beginning to become visible, such as the new styles of lawn care at the Science and Technology Campus. Of others, the Botanical Garden for example, building sites are becoming visible, some of which are close to closure. In other cases, work is underway to provide us with new rules for a management that is attentive to the needs of the environment and of anyone who directly or indirectly uses the University’s spaces.

In fact, all the interventions correspond to a common and coordinated intent: to devote the right care to sustainability and improve the impact of our actions according to scientifically correct dictates, while always keeping in mind the requirements of practicality, usability and functionality typical of spaces for collective use.

It is a work that involves the Ateneo Sostenibile Group with concrete and guiding actions, implemented and planned in several locations, whose effectiveness cannot disregard the involvement of all the people who work and attend the University of Parma: lecturers, technical-administrative staff, students and students.

“Aree verdi di Ateneo – Gestione, fruizione, sostenibilità” the title of the exhibition.

Four totems, which will also be exhibited in other University buildings during 2025, will illustrate four different interventions in different locations and typologies, but united by a single vision and a common thread: care, study and use of grassy areas (also with circularity criteria and Citizen Science actions); improvement of the energy performance of buildings through green walls and the creation of a living lab in the Engineering Department; regeneration of greenhouses, buildings and the Botanical Garden.

When: 16 December 2024 to 31 January 2025
Where: St. Elisabeth Centre – Science and Technology Campus