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Sustainability in education

uu77 has woven sustainability into all of its education. There is not only an extensive sustainable education offer for students. Read here how you, as a student, employee, or sustainability professional, can engage with sustainable education.

Het ToekomstMakersmodel: 5 typen toekomstmakers en hun ontwikkelbehoeften

Future Makers Model

86% of students at uu77 believe it is important to make a societal contribution as a professional in the future. This ambition aligns with uu77's mission to educate students to become critically thinking academics who contribute to society and sustainability from responsible positions. Youngworks researched this and developed the 'Future Makers Model'. 

For students

Sustainable Bachelor’s courses

Want to take sustainability courses during your Bachelor’s degree? 

Find out which courses you can take at your own faculty and at other faculties …

Sustainable Master’s courses

Want to take sustainability courses during your Master’s degree?

Find out which courses you can take at your own faculty and at other faculties …

Experience stories from students and teachers

Would you like to learn more about sustainability in education? 

Read all the experience stories
Student Suus volgde extra vakken over duurzaamheid en behaalde een duurzaamheidsgetuigenis op haar bachelordiploma. Ze poseert trots met haar diploma.

Sustainability Testimony for Bachelor’s diplomas

Did you explore sustainability issues during your studies? To prove it, you can have a Sustainability Testimony added to your Bachelor’s diploma.  

Requirements for the Sustainability Testimony

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Is your laptop broken?

Broken laptops do not have to be replaced immediately with a new one. Students can have small repairs on their personal laptops carried out free of charge at the RUpair-shop in the University Library.

Read here how it works

Er zijn voor medewerkers met een hart voor duurzaamheid talloze initiatieven op de campus

For lecturers

Students want to work with issues of sustainability and other social problems in their teaching. But how do you put this into practice? Read here how you can incorporate sustainability into your teaching.  

For employees

Participate in the special interest group sustainability

A Special Interest Group (SIG) consists of people who are united through their interest in an education-related topic. In the SIG sustainability participants engage in questions about the relationship between education, sustainability (defined as concern for all forms of life) and sustainable development.

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In conversation about sustainable employability

How do you stay well, healthy and happy at work? How do you make sure you use your talents to the fullest? The Sustainable Employability Koerskaart (Course card) is a method to start up an open discussion with your colleagues about ‘work and future’. By sharing your wishes and thoughts about this subject with each other, you wil be able to help each other in realising your ideas and goals.

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For professionals

Discover how you can contribute to the sustainability transition with the right knowledge, skills, and tools. We offer courses, training programmes and education on sustainability.

View our offer