What can you do as a student?
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Green Community
Are you interested in becoming a volunteer at the Green Office or becoming active in one of the sustainable student organizations? Send an e-mail to duurzaam@ugent.be.
Sustainights
With info- and discussion moments, workshops, and with several cool sustainability actions where we as students can take the 'lead' and with which we can make a difference on an academic year. Everyone welcome Tuesday night at the Sustainights!
Sharing platform for study books and materials
Before you buy piles of new books, do you take a look at our sharing platform? And maybe you also have study books or study materials on offer?
Because we strive for reuse and closed cycles!
Sustainable Erasmus
Every year, hundreds of our students travel abroad, whether on Erasmus, an internship or another exchange programme. Find out how you can live sustainably in your host country!
Sustainable travel
Many students travel quite a lot: on exchange programmes or on holiday. All this travel also has an impact on the climate, particularly due to air travel. Here you will find a practical guide for students who want to travel sustainably.
Transition UGent
Transition UGent is an open innovation network of over 200 knowledge workers, policy makers, dreamers and doers from all walks of life. The group bundles engagement and expertise and tries to make the systemic changes that are needed for the transition to a more sustainable university discussable and visible with a memorandum, small-scale experiments, actions, ...
Sustainable educational activities
Summerschools, courses, sustainable thesis topics and more: you can find it all on our sustainable education page.
The awards
The Future Proef Award is an excellence award for the student who has focused on a social-ecological sustainability issue in their thesis, and approached it from different perspectives. Do you think your thesis qualifies? Then don't forget to send it in before the second week of October!
In addition, every year we hand out the 'De Groene Ruijter award' for the greatest sustainability action. Do you think your action qualifies? Submit!
You need information? Or tips?
In the Green Guide we guide you through (U)Ghent in a sustainable way.