NDU began initiating sustainability projects in 2013 when a team of internal experts worked, under the European Union’s TEMPUS program, on a self-study to evaluate and report all potential areas for development and growth in that direction. Further, a new Presidential Environmental Sustainability Task Force (ESTF) was created to develop an action plan and ensure that those sustainability projects were considered a top priority across all three of its campuses, i.e. Zouk Campus, North Lebanon Campus (NLC), and Shouf Campus (SC).