Blueprint

Blueprint is our exciting sustainability engagement programme which supports Schools and Services to understand their sustainability impacts and what they can influence or change to support the University’s sustainability goals.

Working with the Sustainability Service, your team sets priorities and goals, along with an action plan to achieve these.

As well as supporting local change, Blueprint is designed to encourage collaboration with other Schools or Services – all teams are encouraged to join the Blueprint community to share ideas and advice. Every year, your progress will be recognised and celebrated at the University’s annual Sustainability Awards.

Blueprint teams are formed at a School or Service level. All staff and students can play their part in delivering the activities.

There are five phases of creating a Blueprint:

1. Scoping session  –  first up, we work with you to identify the key impacts and opportunities of your School/Service.
2. Workshop  –  here we work with your team to really focus on the areas where you can make the most difference, have the most impact, and that are relevant to your work.
3. Create your Blueprint – the first draft of your Blueprint is produced, including all the actions you have discussed in the workshop. Once you’re happy, it’s signed off by your Head of School/Service.
4. Deliver your Blueprint  –  this is where the real work starts! Working as a team, and supported by the Sustainability Service, you’ll deliver the action and initiatives in your Blueprint.
5. Celebrate achievement  –  Blueprint progress is self-assessed and then audited internally. You’ll also get the chance to have your work recognised and shared across the University community.

Once live, Blueprint is delivered through a 5 year detailed action plan with support from the Sustainability service. The progress will be reviewed annually against your own prioritised targets, the degree of collaboration both within your team and across the blueprint community. Teams then have the opportunity to move through the blueprint levels:

Working towards: You are in the final stages of developing your blueprint.

Explorer: Your blueprint is live and some progress has been made.

Change maker: Your team have met at least one action from each priority level and you have begun to collaborate with other teams to achieve your actions.

Leader: You have completed 80% of your set blueprint actions and your highest priority actions have been achieved.

Visionary: All your blueprint actions are complete and your team are looking ahead to develop a new, more ambitious blueprint.

Interested in creating your own Blueprint for sustainability? Great! Email sustainability@leeds.ac.uk.