Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme refers to our commitment to operate environmentally sustainable and socially responsible manner.

Sustainable Development (SD) is at the core of this programme. This means that we aim to pursue economic, environmental and social goals together, interdependently, instead of pursuing them separately. 

CSR can be described as a framework that helps us to manage our impact - services, operations and products - across the University. 

Accordingly, this 360-degree view enables the University better define its sustainability performance as well as its role in society. 

Universities should have a dual transformative role, ie unlocking the individual's potential as well as improving a sense of collective well-being.

This new vision of quality provides us with the opportunity to "demonstrate the full power and potential of higher education for the individual, for the economy,for the environment and for society" (Nef: University Challenge: Towards a well-being approach to quality in higher education, 2008).

The CSR programme is underpinned by Hefce's vision: "Within next ten years, the higher education sector in this country will be recognised as a major contributor to society's efforts to achieve sustainability - through the skills and knowledge that its graduates learn and put into practice, its research and exchange of knowledge through business, community and public policy engagement, and through its own strategies and operations" (Hefce, 2005).