The 2025 Sustainability Report of the University of Bologna is now online

The 2025 Sustainability Report of the University of Bologna—now in its third edition—presents an account of the University’s values, results, and impacts on the community and the territory in which it operates.

These actions, in addition to reducing costs and waste, aim to improve the teaching and learning environment, as well as the workplace, thereby contributing to more comprehensive education that prepares students to face global challenges, and to more responsible and innovative research that helps address today’s most pressing issues.

The Sustainability Report follows the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI Standards 2021), and illustrates the actions, results, and impacts of the University’s activities in relation to the United Nations 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also reflects the guidelines set out in the “Sustainability Report for Universities,” issued by the Study Group on Social Reporting in collaboration with the Italian University Network for Sustainable Development, as well as the Directive of the Department of Public Administration on Social Reporting in Public Administrations.

The document focuses on the economic, environmental, and social aspects most relevant to the University’s stakeholders, including students, academic and professional staff, institutions, businesses, and local communities, whose active involvement fosters a collective and shared reflection on strategies and future needs.

The first section illustrates the University’s strategies and organisation, with a focus on structures, academic and professional staff. This is followed by a section on economic performance, analysing the economic value generated, distributed, and retained in 2024, and reporting data relating to the University of Bologna group (including affiliated entities, companies, foundations, consortia, and inter-university centres).

The third part of the report is devoted to the environmental impacts of the University’s initiatives, in line with the 2024–2030 University Energy Plan, aimed at promoting energy efficiency and strengthening social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Topics include mobility, waste management, responsible water use, and the digitalisation of processes.

The final section focuses on social impacts, examining the programme catalogue, internationalisation, student services, and initiatives supporting the University’s mission towards its student community. It also covers research activities at national and international levels; staff policies, training, incentives, and organisational wellbeing; as well as the University’s relations with society and the territory, including the activities of libraries and museums, and the promotion of health and sport.

The publication is the outcome of extensive dialogue with the University’s stakeholders, particularly its teaching and professional staff, who, together with the University’s governance, contributed to the development of the contents in line with GRI standards.