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The Green Office Modell

A vision for student-led and staff-supported sustainability hubs that empower students, and structurally embed sustainability

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Supporting students to transform their institutions in their quest to create flourishing societies on a healthy planet

Workshops and trainings Facilitating

• rganisational change

Green Office Model

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Green Office Movement

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How to move beyond events towards a dynamic change process? How to build alliances of students, staff and faculty? How to structurally embed sustainability universities?

TEAM MANDATE RESOURCES INTEGRATION COLLABORATION TRAINING

6 GREEN OFFICE PRINCIPLES

3 case studies

Maastricht University Green Office Green Office Utrecht UCLU Climate Action Unit (Concept)

Integratie Budget: Office, activities, salaries Facility Services ‒ Supervisory Board 8 students, environmental coordinator, PhD Training through rootAbility

Maastricht University Green Office

Mandate for sustainability

3 employees working on sustainability strategy

Empower

• Living Lab
• Project &

volunteer support

6 students (12 hrs/week) & 1 manager Part of General Administration

Inform

• Online Coms
• Offline Coms

Central office &

• nline presence

Involve

• Activities
• Campaigns

Utrecht Green Office

• 2 elected representatives
• Representation on

committees

• Policy development &

recommendations

• Lobbying
• 7-9 student interns
• 20-30 volunteers
• 1 staff coordinator
• Specific projects and

events

• Advisory Board
• Mandate by UCLU
• Part of UCLU
• 8 staff
• Sporadic student interns
• UCL Sustainability

Strategy

• Projects, programmes,

policies and events

• Mandate from UCL
• Part of Facilities & Estates

UCLU Climate Action Unit UCLU Ethics & Environmental Officers UCL Sustainability Team

UCLU Climate Action Unit (Concept)

High- potential Medium- potential Low- potential

• 8 student interns (12hrs/week) & 1 staff coordinator (full-time)
• Strategy, projects, events on social, environmental and economic

sustainability

• Mandate from university and strong collaboration with existing initiatives
• 3 year budget
• Extensive training programme
• 5 student interns (8hrs/week) & 1 staff coordinator (half-time)
• Projects, events on environmental sustainability
• Mandate from university and good collaboration with existing initiatives
• 2 year budget
• 2-3 trainings per year for student team
• 3 student interns (12hrs/week) & 1 staff coordinator (one-day)
• Events & communication on environmental sustainability
• Mandate from Facility Services and weak collaboration with existing initatives
• 1 year budget
• No trainings

Sustainability Hubs

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Maastricht Maastricht Maastricht Wageningen Maastricht Wageningen Utrecht Exeter Greenwich Groningen Canterbury VU Amsterdam Maastricht Wageningen Utrecht Exeter Greenwich Maastricht Wageningen Utrecht Rotterdam Konstanz TU Eindhoven HU Berlin Ghent VHL Groningen Canterbury VU Amsterdam Exeter Greenwich Gothenburg Witten OvGU Bochum Leiden Nijmegen Delft Hildesheim UvA PBL Avans Wuppertal Bologna

Develop strategy Connect Incubate Finance Communicate Learn Ensure participation Lobby Roles and activities of a Sustainability Hub

Report, vision, roadmap, policy Overview, meetings, symposia Projects, programmes, events Projectfunds Website and social media Students as part of working groups and committees Proposals and business cases Research, monitoring, evaluate

Initiation

Problem

Students

Staff

Project Definition

Student and staff collaboration

Planning & Design

Business cases, Proposals, Project plans

Implementation

„Educational institutions and governments should provide the institutional support, resources and legitimacy for youth-led change processes towards sustainability.”

UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development Youth Statement, Japan 2014

ENGAGING PEOPLE & BUILDING ALLIANCES PROPOSAL WRITING FORMING THE INITIATIVE

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Five steps towards your Green Office

DISCOVERY

Green Office Model & Movement Your orga- nisation and its context

SUB- MISSION & DECISION

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Brochures, reports, videos, webinars, presentations, templates Designing Lobbying Start-up Running a Green Office FOR FREE

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• Skype and telephone calls
• Feedback
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