Educational activities for Students

Sustainability Summer Schools

The Sustainability Summer Schools are summer schools organised by and for UGent students. Sustainability challenges are examined from different angles. The summer schools are extracurricular and take place in the last week of the summer holidays, free of charge.

The FUTUREproef award: our sustainable master thesis award

The FUTUREproef award is an excellence prize for the student who has focused on a social-ecological sustainability issue in their thesis and approached it from different perspectives. For more information and to read the articles about the master theses, you are welcome to take a look at the website (NL).

Sustainable courses

There are multiple university-wide electives that focus on socio-economical themes. You can follow these from each program. These are the courses that are thought in English:

• Global Minds
• Migration and Society: an Interdisciplinary Introduction