AhlmanEdu has been awarded the international Green Flag Award for the quality of green environments. The campus area received special praise from the judges for its diversity and ecological and sustainable practices. The prestigious label sends a message about responsible and planned activities in the green areas of the campus in Tampere, Finland.
The Green Flag Award® is an international label for the quality of green areas. It recognises and rewards well maintained and managed green areas and sets the standard for internationally first-class green areas. All open access green areas can apply for the label.
The aims of the label include ensuring that everyone has free access to quality green spaces, that green spaces are well maintained and provide services to communities. The label also aims to establish standards for quality green space maintenance, promote green space practices and identify managers, employees and volunteers of quality managed green spaces.
Feedback from judges:
The AhlmanEdu campus is a charmingly diverse park, with green areas and buildings to explore and admire on more than one visit.
The area features a wide range of student-designed solutions, from stormwater management to more extensive experiments with compost tea as fertiliser.
The Green Flag Award criteria are used to assess the performance of the site as a whole, with the key themes of sustainability and opportunities for user involvement and participation. The assessment process consists of 27 criteria that identify high quality maintenance and operations and serve as guidelines for the development of the site.
This year, 54 parks/green areas in Europe received GFA recognition, 21 of which are located in Finland. In Tampere, Hatanpää Arboretum and AhlmanEdu have been awarded the label. The Green Flag is flown at more than 2,400 sites in 17 countries. The Green Flag Award is managed by the UK-based Keep Britain Tidy organisation and The Finnish Association of Landscape Industries (Viherympäristöliitto ry) in Finland.
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