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Green Office KU Leuven

 
Leuven (KU)

The Green Office KU Leuven works with the sustainability services to change policy, inform students and directly work with students on sustainability issues.

Founding story

Among others, the university had a sustainability policy, report and working group on becoming a climate neutral organisation by 2030. Also nine student groups were active on the topic. The Vice-Rector Sustainability Policy learned about the Green Office idea and then tasked a staff member to realise it. It was then established in 2016. The goal was to establish a Green Office that would help to realise the sustainability ambitions of the university and act as a contact point for students and staff.

The team

The team

Organisation

As the graph below shows, the team consits of 1 staff coordinator (24 hours per week) and 4 student employees (paid 8 hours per week).  The Green Office has a structural volunteering programme. The Green Office is integrated into the broader sustainability department.

Leuven (KU)

Activities & achievements

Community Garden

Established a community garden for students

Governance

Made sustainability a major issue in the rectoral election

TBA

 Maybe an example of a bigger event you ran and how many particpants it had?

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    Working on the community garden
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    Representing the Green Office
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    Hosting a lecture on COP 22
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    At a team meeting
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    The ECO Challenge
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    Cooking at the ECO Challenge
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    Hosting a cooking workshop
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    Painting the office logo
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    Promoting the Green Office

About the university

Catholic University of Leuven
Hosts 55,500 students and employs 15,800 staff
In Leuven, Belgium with campi across Flanders

Integration of the Green Office

Annual Budget of €36,000
Approved by the Executive Board
Part of  Sustainability Services

The Green Office has a large room with its iconic logo in the middle of the sustainability department

The Green Office has a large room with its iconic logo in the middle of the sustainability department

Contact

http://www.kuleuven.be/duurzaamheid/greenofficekuleuven
/GreenOfficeKULeuven

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