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Destination Green
Keele has a track record of providing successful internship schemes focussed in the areas of the environment and sustainability. Previous schemes, starting in 2009 with “Project Green” and continuing with “Project FIT” and “Keele Connect”, have been very successful in placing graduate interns in local and regional SMEs. Over 225 graduates were placed into an environmental project or environmental company, out of a total of 330.
Launched in February 2012, “Destination Green” an is internship scheme aimed at providing graduates with the much needed experience they need, whilst helping organisations with their sustainability agenda.
19 graduates were placed into internships between March and August 2012, all with an environmental focus. Internships lasted 14 weeks at a cost of £100 a week to the organisation. In return, they were provided with a graduate to work at their premises on a full-time basis, 2 visits from a Keele academic to help them scope their project out and attendance at a workshop at the University. Graduates received a bursary of £250 a week and were enrolled onto 2 post-graduate modules, Greening Business and Placement Module, fully paid by Keele.
In total, the Destination Green team worked with 16 organisations, 5 of which had never engaged with Keele previously – Rolls Royce, Churchill China, Seddon Property Services, Carillion and Veolia.
Project examples include:
- Updated Carbon Audit and Development of Carbon Reduction Strategy
- Office Waste Management
- Carbon Project
- BREEAM-In-Use implementation in VES waste treatment facilities
- Clay and Glaze Reclamation Project
- Elimination or best possible alternative for packaging waste
Currently, we know of three graduates who have been taken on by these organisations.
