Malaysia sustainable university campus network/MySun

Malaysia’s commitment to addressing sustainability, energy access and efficiency, and climate change issues is evident by its allegiance to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. To promote and realize the enacted laws and guidelines on sustainability and energy efficiency, a bottom-up approach that focused on local communities such Higher Education Institutions is adopted. However, Malaysian HEIs have no guidelines on improving their campuses’ sustainability or energy efficiency. The inculcation of sustainability in HEI campuses in Malaysia through a national platform is urgently needed to ensure impactful national and local outcomes from future sustainability and energy efficiency activities. The European Union has funded an initiative called Malaysia Sustainable University Campus Network (MySun) for this purpose. Eight Malaysian and three EU universities and the Malaysian MOE are involved in this initiative. The desired project outcomes are firstly to build the human capacities in university campuses’ sustainability and energy efficiency in Malaysia and secondly to develop a structure that promote a culture of sustainable HEI campuses in the Malaysian HE system. Eight work packages that span from 2020 to 2023 are planned for implementation. Regrettably, project progress is slow due to the Covid-19 pandemic.