Sustainights (EN)
Making Tomorrow: the relaunch
We start the semester with a new Making Tomorrow. An event where 100 students come together in the foyer to unite around sustainability actions and projects that we want to work on in the coming months. We are already thinking of these:
- Greening: On campus Dunant we are going to plant a tiny forest, we are organising a climbing plant competition and we are going to garden together with student organisation Stujardin. The more we are, the more we can do!
- Summer schools: Students have already organised a successful 'summer school climate' twice. Last year, the 'summer school animal welfare' was added. Through workshops and lectures, students from different backgrounds learn for five days about the challenges related to these pressing issues. Would you like to join us?
- Swap packaging materials: Which companies in Ghent have to send something regularly and need packaging materials to do so? And which professional groups have something to offer? Can we link?
- Ecomarkted: On 24 April, we are organising a new edition: a market full of sustainable products and a big Vlömarkt! Do you want to help organise it and/or give it a new impulse?
- Sustainability scan: Students indicate that they do not feel adequately prepared to deal with the challenges of the future. What will the education of the future look like? And what can students do to change this?
- Diversity & Inclusion: Do you dream of a university that is accessible and inclusive for everyone? What steps can we take towards a university where discrimination, colonialism and social inequality have no place?
- Sustainable cooking: How do we get more sustainable and plant-based food on the menu of UGent staff and students?
- Catapa has a number of environmental activists on mining from Peru visiting. We want to organize an evening with them on 9 March. Do you want to help organise this event?
- Communication: Ideas to increase the reach among students with good communication campaigns, social media, ...? Writing talent that you would like to use to put sustainable student research in the spotlight on the FUTUREproef website?
Programme
6:30 pm: doors open
6:45 pm: introduction
19:00: introduction Green Office and other projects
19:50 Join actions and projects, and brainstorm, work out concrete actions or just have a chat
21:00 chat
Practical
Tuesday 15 February - 18:30 - Foyer UFO - Free of charge - NL/EN
Upcoming Sustainights for this semester
- KMF & GO lecture: the Citizens' Parliament, a democratic way out of the crisis?
Tuesday 22 February - 20h - Room -3.1 (Technicum Block 1)
- Green Community Café: get to know each other (speeddate)
Tuesday 1 March - 20h - Green Hub
- Green Community @Belmundo Festival: International Women's Day
Tuesday, March 8 - hour depending on schedule - gather at Green Hub
- City Game: Who are the most sustainable Stu(d)(G)enten?
Tuesday 15 March - hour depending on schedule - meeting at Green Hub
- Green Community @Belmundo Cinema
Tuesday, March 22 - hour depending on schedule - meeting at Green Hub
- Green Community Cafe: skillshare
Tuesday, March 29 - 8 pm - Green Hub
- Workshop with The Transformists and Rethinking Economics (to be confirmed)
Tuesday 19 April - 20h - Green Hub
- By Students: in the spotlights, Groene Ruijter Award & Futureproef afterevent
Tuesday 26 April - 19h - Green Hub
- UGent's edible plants tour with Stujardin
Tuesday, May 3 - 18h30 - Location to be determined
- Thank you for being with us: closing event Making Tomorrow second semester
Tuesday 10 May - 20h - Green Hub
More information?
- Check our facebook page
- Contact us for further questions!
- Check our movie of the kick-off meeting in 2018 and pictures of our kick off meeting in 2019.