Create YOUR Campus - the winning ideas of the 2019 competition
Various project teams have already come together to implement the ideas
In the 2019 summer semester, University Health Management, together with EduCare Study Support, and Psychological Counselling at Studentenwerk (Upper Franconia's Association for Student Affairs), announced the second instalment of their ideas competition Create YOUR Campus, inspired by which, the University of Bayreuth is seeking to keep promoting the well-being of its employees and students on campus. Thanks to the inaugural 2017 ideas competition, Create YOUR Campus has been able to implement three winning ideas. Drinking fountains, the colourful “Enzi” seating, and as part of the bicycle project 'bicycle-friendly Uni, bicycle-friendly city', inter alia, a further bicycle repair station at the Department of Sport Science have all been made reality. Recently, thanks to the great commitment of Green Campus and StuPa’s (Student Parliament’s) bicycle mobility working group, the RadBox, a self-help bicycle workshop has been up and running (more information: www.greencampus.uni-bayreuth.de).
With the redesign of the cafeteria, the focus had shifted to food and drink for the 2019 ideas competition. Students and employees had the opportunity to submit ideas with regard to any aspects of Eating & Drinking on campus. After six weeks, the CYC ideas box and the online forms provided over 200 ideas for the evaluation phase. During the semester break, the ideas were all read and scrutinized for how well they fulfilled the competition criteria. They had to be creative, health-promoting, and sustainable, feasible and affordable, and on top of that they were meant to be useful to as many students and employees as possible.
Topic of the Create YOUR Campus 2019 Idea Competition: Eating & Drinking
Alexandra Lorenz
At the jury meeting including members from the University Governing Board, Staff Council, and StuPa, among others, the TOP 6 winners emerged:
Nutritional details for Cafeteria meals
Nutritional details and CO2 data for Cafeteria dishes provided to diners in the most appropriate and easily understandable way via digital media.
Project team: Green Campus, Studentenwerk Oberfanken, Social & Health Sciences in Sport, Information Systems Management (Business Administration VII)
Sports Cafe
Creation of an additional venue with a selection food and drinks (of active/healthy type) for users of the University Sport programme and all other members of the University in the form of a cafeteria on site Department of Sport Science.
Project team: University Health Management, Staff of the Department of Sport Science, Studentenwerk Oberfranken
Healthy, sustainable & fair nutrition
More vegetarian dishes on the menu of the cafeteria, and updates on activities of Studentenwerk Oberfranken, e.g. with regard to improving the sustainability and regionality of the products being offered.
Project team: Studentenwerk Oberfranken, Green Campus
Urban gardening
Conversion of campus green areas into community gardens, planting of edible plants, herbs, or shrubs on campus green areas, kept by a working group of University members (Project start: Spring 2020).
Project team: Green Campus, University Health Management
Muesli station in the cafeteria
Creation of a muesli station in the Cafeteria for individually composed servings (for installation in the new cafeteria).
More outdoor seating for eating / spending time
Provision of more outdoor seating on the campus green areas. Suitable, among other things, for eating (close to the Mensa), but also in other places for working, studying, and spending time.
Project team: University Health Management, Buildings & Grounds Maintenance