Minister of Development and Sustainability and Director of Applied Education Discuss Strategic Partnership to Consolidate Institutional Sustainability

Kuwait City, 14 September (KUNA) — State Minister for Development and Sustainability Dr. Reem Al-Faleh and Director General of the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) Dr. Hassan Al-Fajam held a coordination meeting to discuss a strategic partnership aimed at embedding sustainability as a measurable institutional practice within the applied education and training system.

In a press statement on Monday, PAAET said the two parties discussed implementing the government’s environmental sustainability reporting system across the authority’s colleges, institutes, and facilities, including measuring energy, water, and waste indicators, resource consumption, and building a documented database to support decision-making and identify improvement opportunities.

The statement added that the meeting reviewed existing educational outputs to integrate sustainability standards into curricula, and directed a portion of research and graduation projects toward national priorities and initiatives determined in coordination with the ministry.

It further explained that the meeting addressed gradually transforming the authority’s facilities into a practical sustainability model by enhancing energy and water efficiency, waste segregation, environmental impact assessment, and preparing an institutional sustainability report, alongside activating community service and continuing education programs, sustainability ambassadors and clubs, volunteer initiatives, and green entrepreneurship.

The authority noted efforts to develop digital monitoring indicators and dashboards, and to support green building trends in the authority’s future projects. An agreement was reached to translate these pathways into an organized cooperation framework encompassing joint initiatives and clear indicators for monitoring and impact measurement. (End) A.S.A.