Sustainability Testimony for Bachelor’s diplomas

To be eligible for the Sustainability Testimony:

• You must be a Bachelor’s student;
• You must have successfully completed 21 ECTS from sustainability courses. The credits that you receive for your thesis do not count for the total of 21 ECTS. And;
• Of these, at least 6 ECTS must have been obtained at a Radboud faculty other than your own (ECTS obtained at another university do not count), and;
• You must have written a Bachelor’s thesis on a sustainability topic. The way this works varies from programme to programme. Discuss your options with the coordinator of your Bachelor’s thesis.

• You must be a Bachelor’s student;
• You must have successfully completed at least 21 ECTS from sustainability courses, and;
• Of these, at least 6 ECTS must have been obtained at a Radboud faculty other than your own (ECTS obtained at another university do not count), and;
• Your Bachelor’s thesis/internship (worth at least 12 ECTS) must focus on a sustainability topic. When filling in the intake form that you receive after registering for your thesis/internship in Osiris, you must, in addition to uploading the research proposal, also upload a motivation form (see downloads) in which you indicate the areas where your thesis/internship meets the sustainability requirements. On this form, you must relate your topic to one or more SDGs. Discuss your motivation with your assessor beforehand.

• You must be a Bachelor’s student;
• You must have successfully completed 20 ECTS from sustainability courses, and;
• Of these, at least 5 ECTS must have been obtained at a Radboud faculty other than your own (ECTS obtained at another university do not count), and;
• You must have written a Bachelor’s thesis on a sustainability topic. The way this works varies from programme to programme. Discuss your options with the coordinator of your Bachelor’s thesis.

To be eligible for the Sustainability Testimony:

• You must be a Bachelor’s student;
• You must have successfully completed 21 ECTS from sustainability courses. If you have already taken (part of the) courses on the list in the past, you may still be eligible. The ECTS from your Bachelor's thesis do not count towards the total of 21 ECTS, and;
• Of these, at least 6 ECTS must have been obtained at a Radboud faculty other than your own (in theory, you can obtain all 21 ECTS at another faculty), and; 
• You must have written a Bachelor’s thesis on a sustainability topic. This means that in your thesis you explain why it concerns a sustainability topic, and you must outline a framework for how the topic relates to one or more SDGs. You must discuss this with your supervisor beforehand. If your degree programme is going to assign topics based on preferences, make sure your choices are all on topics you think you can relate to one or more SDGs.

Unfortunately, if you already obtained your Bachelor’s degree before 1 September 2023, you will not be able to obtain the Sustainability Testimony retroactively.

To be eligible for the Sustainability Testimony, you must:

• be a bachelor student
• successfully complete sustainability courses consisting of 20 ECTS, and;
• at least 5 ECTS out of the 20 must be obtained at a Radboud faculty other than your own (ECTS from a different university will not be included), and;
• write a Bachelor’s thesis on a sustainability topic. The procedure is different in each programme. You can discuss the possibilities with your Bachelor’s thesis coordinator.

What steps do you need to take?

In order to obtain a Sustainability Testimony, you must:

• ensure that you meet the course requirements of the sustainability courses you want to take;
• before starting your thesis, inform your Bachelor’s thesis coordinator that you want to write a thesis that meets the Sustainability Testimony requirements. Your thesis coordinator will inform you of the programme’s process in this regard.
• indicate that you are eligible for the Sustainability Testimony during your diploma application.