Protocollo di sostenibilità per campus universitari = Sustainable Protocol for University Campuses

This study is an integral part of a strategic institutional project of Politecnico di Torino, caried out in cooperation with iiSBE Italia, aiming to develop and implement asustainability assessment systems specific for university campuses. Universities known as essential institutions for global sustainability through their implementation of environmental social and governance principles across educational programs and operational infrastructure. The assessment tools like STARS and UI GreenMetric because the lack of context- specific adaptation, and methodological depth faces difficulties in their ability to measure campus sustainability assessment. The research develops two generic frameworks named SBTool Campus for building-scale assessment and SNTool Campus for urban-scale frameworks which stem from the Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Method. The methodological process consists of three stages which include (1) evaluating existing higher education tools and indicators (2) expert workshop-based co-design of hierarchical structures (issues, categories, criteria, indicators) and (3) generic framework implementation on the Sustainable MED Cities (SMC) digital platform. With these frameworks, universities have the possibility to generate contextualized assessment tools to conduct sustainability performance assessments at different scales supporting both local and international sustainability goals. The SBTool and SNTool Campus frameworks emerged from evidence-based procedures and participatory validation to advance integrated transparent adaptable tools for sustainability governance in higher education institutions. In realtion to the Italian context, the two generic frameworks (SBTool and SNTool Campus) will be used to develop a version of the public national assessment system Protocollo ITACA for campus buildings and urban areas. ITACA is the Federation of the Italian Regions supporting the Conference of the Regions in the field of sustainability. Protocollo ITACA is an institutional assessment and certification system used by regional and public authorities to support their policies and initiatives for improving the sustainability of the built environment.