We are a group of HU colleagues (mainly teachers) with a passion for and knowledge about sustainability in education. From September 2022 to July 2024, we worked on a framework for embedding the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education. With this framework, we show what the HU means by sustainable education and a sustainable transition. In addition, you will find inspiration here to get started in a practical way with integrating sustainability into your education. This website contains explanations, tips, tools, a sustainability monitor and examples so that the study programme can easily get started with sustainable development.
The assignment to develop this conceptual framework comes from the Steering Group Sustainable Together. Around the summer of 2022, after a period of orientation and knowledge exchange on sustainability, it designed a guiding working model. She has asked us to load this further into content.
We did this based on a development-oriented approach in which co-creation and inspiring each other were central. Many HU colleagues have given us feedback in the course of our process and have contributed ideas to us in individual conversations and in workshops we organized. We use the experiences of colleagues and international literature to tell the story and are grateful to everyone who has enriched our thought process.
This website and all the materials you can find here are the end product of our project. We hope that this is not the end stage, but rather the beginning of a HU-wide movement in which we will apply, sharpen, supplement and enrich the developed framework and material with great examples from all sectors.
We will continue to travel on this journey.
Project team:
- Eva Dijksterhuis: project manager
- Joris Gresnigt: sustainability coordinator of the ICT Institute, researcher and advisor SDGs
- Saskia Hanssen: sustainability policy advisor, lecturer
- Tijmen de Jong: student assistant
- Lisette Noort: student assistant
- Lenny van Onselen: senior lecturer in the Co design research group, advisor TLN
- Marieke de Roos: lecturer in Communication and Multimedia Design, research group Co design and honors project “Buiten gebeurt het”
- Malou van der Vegt: lecturer in Industrial Engineering and Management, Centre of Expertise Smart Sustainable Cities
- Hetty Verboom: lecturer in Commercial Economics, TLN Educational Leadership
Sustainability Monitor Working Group:
- Mandy Müller: lecturer in Communication
- Marieke de Roos: see above
- Roos van Vijfeijken: lecturer in Oral Care
- Felix van Vugt: lecturer and educational institute Archimedes, Community Manager Sustainability Programme Team, board member of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance
- Herbert Wubben: project leader Institutional research