“The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of making it happen is not on the shoulders of any one person or group. No one will get the credit, but everyone can contribute.”
- Donella Meadows
"The speed at which we have advanced in technological and scientific matters over the past decades has brought both benefits and challenges. Nevertheless, it is clear that the result of what we are currently experiencing is a mismatch between greed and responsibility toward oneself, one's peers, future generations, and all living beings on this planet.
The fundamental misconception of many humans is believing they are separate from nature that they are above everything and everyone, and that the planet is here to serve them.
Thais Barros Beldi — Director of Strategy and Innovation
Of course, we all seek happiness and the best for our families, but what is the meaning of these desires if the planet we live on is not healthy? How can we be happy if everything around us is collapsing, with so many tragedies and social inequalities?
As people, professionals, and citizens of the world, our quest as humanity is for balance and the regeneration of the planet.
We all have the power to be agents of change, and only together can we mitigate the projections of the systemic challenges we face.
It is the responsibility of any educational institution to promote the development of more conscious, up-to-date, realistic human beings with a critical sense of the impacts of their actions. And this is the legacy that Facens intends to leave."
"Often, society blames the system and places the responsibility for problems or solutions in someone else's hands. Yet behind every technology, every corporate decision, and any enterprise, there's always an individual's thought that turned into action. Everything starts with the individual.
As Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever, said: 'The great crisis we face today is a crisis of values, greed, power, and ego. There will be neither money nor technology capable of solving the current challenges unless we elevate our level of consciousness.'
— Vitor Belota, Head of Sustainability
That's why here at Facens, we are committed to the mission of developing students with critical thinking, socio-emotional skills, heightened awareness, and technical knowledge so they are truly prepared to find practical solutions to the significant challenges we face as humanity."
Launched in 2014, Smart Campus® Facens distinguishes itself by transforming our campus into a vast living laboratory focused on studying and implementing innovative solutions aimed at developing Human, Smart, and Sustainable Cities.
We consider our entire ecosystem and operate in a multidisciplinary, integrated manner with other Innovation Centers and departments at Centro Universitário Facens.
Thanks to our pioneering efforts, we hold the trademark for Smart Campus®, a term that has been adopted and replicated in universities and complexes both nationally and internationally.
