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In the creation of our sustainability report, we wanted to include external points of view. We have gathered them from sustainability colleagues of other companies, from our readers, from experts that offer their views on current topics and from our auditors that have drawn our attention to some aspects we had never before considered.
Another View
For this report, we invited students of htl donaustadt to take a look at five Verbund projects and report on them. We wanted to get the viewpoint of future generations, as our projects have a long-term focus. They will be a part of these students’ lives when they are adults.
For a number of years, htl donaustadt has published its own sustainability report, which has won the Austrian Sustainability Reporting Award (ASRA) a number of times.
Thanks to some very committed teachers, this school is among the forerunners in Austria when it comes to forward thinking and actions.
The goal of the project was not only to give students a look at our corporate activities, but also to help them explore the content. For that reason, at the start of the project, the budding young authors attended a writing workshop with experts to learn the “right” way to prepare a report – including professional layouts of text and images.
Just like real journalists and writers, the students were under great pressure to meet looming deadlines. They always come up so quickly, and if they’d only had more time, well but in the end, nearly all the reports made it just in time. Under the watchful eyes of the professional writers, the students put the finishing touches on their masterpieces. They had plenty of opportunity to dig deep in the writers’ toolboxes and take a few pointers.
The response of all involved – students, teachers, Verbund staff, writers and photographers – was overwhelmingly positive. Their unanimous opinion? We want more!
We would like to express our thanks to htl donaustadt, especially principal Dipl.-Ing. Christine Moravec, Mag. Gabriele Stelzmüller, teacher and environmental manager, Dipl. Ing. Lothar Kerbl, head of the electrical engineering department, and Dipl.-Ing. Erich Pils, teacher and deputy environmental manager.
Our extra special thanks go to the student teams who worked on this project:
“Back to nature”: Anna Huber, Natalie Strohmeier and Rahul Sharaf
“A green future for green hearts”: Sebastian Brunner, Bernhard Iber and Florian Nebenführ
“Sustainability is in the air”: Florian Chlan, Thomas Lewisch and Robin Nicolas Stowasser
“There is no energy problem”: Otto Matthias, Florian Mayer and Thomas Weingartshofer
“Three millimetres and no more!”: Dominik Kukacka, Markus Noestler and Sandra Schweitzer
