Why is sustainability important within your organisation?
As a student organisation, you can encourage students to think about creating a better world. By making sustainable choices within your association, e.g. in terms of waste separation or energy consumption, students will unconsciously apply this in their daily lives. Making your association more sustainable therefore not only affects the level of your association, but also your student members, because you are an example for students in Nijmegen.
The Sustainability Guide will help you get started
The ‘Sustainability Guide’ supports student organisations that are or want to work on the topic of sustainability. For example, it offers tools regarding creating sustainable policy plans, but also practical tips on how to make your activities or boardroom more sustainable.
The Sustainability Guide was created by the Radboud Green Office, and is only available in English. You can download it at the bottom of this page.
Radboud Green Certificate
Has your organisation already started implementing the tips from the Sustainability Guide? If so, apply for the Radboud Green Certificate. Please note, this is only available to study organisations recognised by Radboud University.
How to qualify
In short: you fill in a questionnaire and provide proof with the answers in four different documents. The questions cover, for example, activities around sustainability, sustainable travel, or an association's sustainability policy. Evidence can be anything; photos, screenshots of paragraphs in policy documents, receipts, etc. You e-mail all materials to the Radboud Green Office and based on the completed questionnaire, a score will be produced and you will be told whether you are eligible - in addition to the earned Certificate - for an additional bronze, silver, gold or platinum vignette.
Want to participate?
The application period takes place annually in the spring.