#MUNIsaves: Nine Energy Savings on Campus
For the new academic year, the management of the Accommodation and Catering Services (ACS) has prepared the Nine Energy Savings campaign for students staying in dormitories, focused on saving electricity, water and heat. This is in response to a similar #MUNIsaves campaign launched by Masaryk University in October 2022.
Using pictograms, the campaign encourages students to behave responsibly via the “nine rules” listed below. Savings and cost reductions should then be seen in four main areas – drinking water, heat, gas and electricity. “The individual points of the energy saving programme in the dormitory buildings relate to heating, lighting, charging phones sparingly, minimising the use of taps, showers and sinks and efficient laundry,” says Head of Residence Management Renata Pavlicová.
The Last One Out Turns the Light Off, Don’t Turn up the Heat, Only Short Songs in the Shower, A Drop of Responsibility or For a Full Drum. These are the playful captions under the pictograms on the colourful leaflets that form part of the campaign. ACS will eventually place them in all dormitory buildings.
Developing comprehensible principles for efficient and responsible energy and water management and motivating students and employees to comply with them are part of MU´s Strategic Plan 2021-2028.
Don't use heating unnecessarily!
The energy-saving measures include regulated heating of rooms in ACS dormitory buildings. All thermostatic valves are deliberately set to a maximum value of 3, which corresponds to a temperature of 22-23 °C without the possibility of further manipulation. In winter, a maximum temperature of 21 °C is recommended for living quarters.
Permitted equipment and appliances
As of April 2025, a new version of the Masaryk University Residence and Canteen Administration Director's Instruction No. 11/2018 also came into force, which regulates the rules for the use of permitted electrical equipment in ACS dormitories. The maximum permitted power consumption of simultaneously connected electrical appliances in a room is 2,000 watts.
