ISCN Student Led Virtual Event
Student Engagement for Sustainability on Campus
an ISCN Student-led Virtual Session
In this interactive webinar, we explored the role of students in their efforts to accelerate climate action and sustainability in higher education! Participation was open to all interested parties and not exclusively students. Please watch the whole webinar below:
Keynote speech: ‘Youth Empowerment in Higher Education and beyond’
Marie-Claire Graf is a Swiss youth advocate for sustainable development and climate action. She is the president of the Swiss Associations of Student Organizations for Sustainability, co-founder and core-team member of the Sustainably Week Switzerland and Sustainability Week International, vice president at the think tank Swiss Youth for Climate and YOUNGO Focal Point 2020, the official youth constituency to the UNFCCC.
Session: ‘GreenTeams – Student-led teams working on the integration of sustainability into their faculty and education’
Sharina Ligtelijn is a master student in Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. She has been a part of the very first so called GreenTeam at TU Delft. This is a team of students working on integrating sustainability into their own faculty of TU Delft. She is currently setting up more of these teams across campus since she is the GreenTeams Coordinator at the Green Office of TU Delft (GreenTU).
Marijn van Steen is a master student in Industrial Design Engineering, the chair of GreenTU and former student representative in the Student Council, where she put sustainability on the agenda on a university-wide level.
More info on the GreenTeams: https://www.tudelft.nl/sustainability/get-involved/greentu/
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