For the ASSITEJ community, the SHIFT certification and the Green Team work mean different resources. On our website, you can find our Sustainability Policy (I Am Because You Are) and our Sustainability working plan. These are guidelines to improve our activities regarding travel, communication, and events on the environmental level. They are also a credible track record of concrete actions to fund our commitment to become a more environmentally sustainable organisation, a more sustainable community.
The Executive Committee of ASSITEJ has been working on many new topics and projects since we got our first grant from the European Union. Some are already very visible: the mobility of our members, the Umbrella Sessions, the research streams, the new Regional Cooperation Programme… Some are less visible but are meaningful as well.
One of them is our commitment to environmental sustainability and the work of our Green Team. In January, thanks to the Green Team and especially to the involvement of Julia Dina Hesse and Chris Blois Brooke, ASSITEJ was awarded the SHIFT Culture Eco Certificate for the second year. The SHIFT Culture process is currently in a pilot phase, and we are proud to be part of it. It is an opportunity to rethink our practices as an international cultural network and change our mindsets and behaviour. But it is also an opportunity for the SHIFT partners to think out of the (European) box, as ASSITEJ is a truly worldwide network.
For the ASSITEJ community, the SHIFT certification and the Green Team work mean different resources. On our website, you can find our Sustainability Policy (I Am Because You Are) and our Sustainability working plan. These are guidelines to improve our activities regarding travel, communication, and events on the environmental level. They are also a credible track record of concrete actions to fund our commitment to become a more environmentally sustainable organisation and a more sustainable community.
To go further, we need to learn from you. Many artists and practitioners have sustainable practices, and we need to broaden our perspective on these matters. So, join the Green Team or let us know your thoughts about these. We need you! We need to know your commitment!
