The University Sustainability Centre (USC) provides a range of services to support sustainable development, community transformation, and academic innovation at UNIMAS and beyond.

Our services include:

• Community Engagement & Empowerment – Designing and implementing programs that strengthen local livelihoods, education, and cultural preservation through participatory approaches.
• Sustainability Advisory & Consultancy – Offering expertise on sustainability strategies, environmental management, and policy development for government agencies, industries, and communities.
• Training & Capacity Building – Delivering workshops, seminars, and professional training on sustainability practices, digital literacy, community-based participatory research (CBPR), and STEM education.
• Partnership Development – Building collaborative networks between universities, government, NGOs, and local communities to achieve impactful outcomes aligned with national and global development agendas.
• Student & Youth Development – Supporting experiential learning opportunities such as SULAM, CARE and leadership programs that empower students to be agents of change.

USC actively contributes to knowledge sharing and thought leadership in sustainability, community development, and environmental conservation through its publications. These works reflect UNIMAS’s commitment to advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while positioning the university as a leader in sustainability practices regionally and globally.

Types of Publications:

• 📘 UNIMAS Sustainability Masterplan 2021–2025 – Outlining the university’s long-term strategies for embedding sustainability into teaching, research, and community engagement.
• 📗 UNIMAS Sustainability Report 2021–2022 – Documenting progress and achievements across sustainability initiatives within the campus and beyond.
• 🌍 UNIMAS Low Carbon Campus Roadmap 2030 – A roadmap towards reducing carbon emissions and creating a climate-resilient campus.
• 📑 UNIMAS ESG Excellence Report 2023 – Highlighting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) practices that strengthen institutional excellence and accountability.
• 🏫 UNIMAS SDG Report Oct 2022 – June 2023 – Tracking contributions of UNIMAS’s programs, research, and partnerships toward the global SDGs.

Guidelines & Process Flow

To ensure transparency, accountability and compliance, the University Sustainability Centre (USC) adopts structured guidelines and process flows in managing grants and projects. These workflows provide clear direction for staff, partners and stakeholders, while serving as reference documents during internal and external audits.

1. Grant Opening & Offering Process Flow
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This process outlines the end-to-end management of grant opportunities -from planning and announcement, to application submission, review and approval. It ensures that all calls for funding are conducted systematically, with clear criteria and traceable documentation.

2. Project Management Process Flow (by Scope)
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This process provides a structured framework for community and sustainability project execution according to specific scopes of work. It covers initiation, implementation, monitoring, reporting and closure, ensuring that projects are aligned with sustainability objectives and deliver measurable impacts.

Together, these guidelines and workflows form the backbone of USC’s quality assurance system—ensuring that all activities are well-documented, auditable, and continuously improved.