Developing an environmentally aware University

We present the experiences of research-action for developing an environmental aware and responsible university at the Institucion Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. Academic exercises are proposed from the classrooms and developed by students and staff. Final results are presented, in order to achieve environmental awareness not only to the administrative levels of the Institution, but also to the academic community composed of students and professors. In this paper we present six experiences in the frameworks of cleaner production, clean and sustainable energy and risks assessment. The implementations of such initiatives have produced gains not only in knowledge and technological transference but also in costs and energy consumption reductions. Here we have clear examples that synergies between the planning offices/dependences at the administrative level and the research communities in Universities may redound in better practices.