3R programs on campus
To promote sustainability on campus, Waste Management Team of Navoi State Pedagogical Institute has been implementing a 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) program which can significantly minimize waste. Here’s a structured approach to developing such a program:
Reduce: Objective: Minimize waste generation.
Awareness Campaigns: To educate students and staff about the importance of reducing waste “Waste Management Team” organize seminars and workshops and use a number of social media tools .
Digital Alternatives: Encourage the use of digital documents instead of printed ones. NSPI promotes online submissions for assignments and use the platform of HEMIS for academic purposes.
Food Waste Reduction: Waste management team implement initiatives like composting, recycling organic and toxic wastes and has partnerships with local food banks to donate surplus food. Moreover, to avoid single use plastic bottles, glasses are provided for all the staff of institute.
Reuse: Objective: Extend the life of products and materials.
Reuse Centers: A campus reuse center was established where students can donate and pick up items like furniture, supplies, and clothing. Moreover, NSPI has a spin-off project that can recycle the papers
Repair Workshops: Waste Management Team host workshops that teach students how to repair items instead of discarding them, such as clothes, electronics, and furniture.
Recycle: Objective: Ensure proper recycling practices are in place.
Recycling Stations: Recycling bins are set up clearly labeled throughout the campus for paper, plastics, metals, and electronics.
Educational Signage: Informative signs and posters are placed informative signs on recycling bins to educate users about what can and cannot be recycled.
Partnerships with Local Recyclers: NSPI tends to collaborate with local recycling companies to ensure materials are processed correctly.
Navoi State Pedagogical Institute switched to the electronic application systems in order to reduce paper consumption.
We have a special platform — HEMIS — higher education process management information system. This digital system includes «Administrative management», «Educational process», «Scientific activities» and «Financial Management» modules. This unique system incorporates administrative management — management of information on the structure of HEIs, faculties and departments, staff and teaching staff, student contingent and their movement, learning process — it is aimed at the management of educational programs, subjects, and students’ educational activities, registration and monitoring of university graduates, scientific activity — information provision and planning processes of research processes, publications, intellectual property, and educational work processes in terms of information and organizational provision and aimed at evaluating teachers’ activities, and financial activity — focused on automating the processes of controlling the payment of scholarships and wages, as well as the accounting of student fees. ( https://hemis.nspi.uz/)
Moreover, Navoi State Pedagogical Institute uses the digital platforms of edu.ijro (https://edo.ijro.uz/) and Interaktiv uz (https://interaktiv.oak.uz/) These digital applications considerably contributes to reduction of paper usage.
A unified approach to document creation and processing (registration, approval, etc.);
— Reducing costs of printing, mailing and storing paper documents;
— Centralized, categorized and systematized storage of documents in the electronic archive;
— Reducing the time of delivery, formalization and agreement of documents;
— Quick signing of documents
— Continuous use of any actions with documents in online mode: search, download, print, check, reject, as well as tracking their movement.
