Sustainability Edition Create a Course Challenge runner-up in SustainaBul Best Practices

During the award ceremony of the SustainaBul 2022, the Dutch national sustainability ranking for higher education institutions, the UvA was awarded second place in the Top 5 Best Practices with the 'Create a Course Challenge: Sustainability Edition'. SustainaBul is an initiative of the national student network for sustainability in higher education, Students for Tomorrow. According to the jury, the UvA excelled in the field of stakeholder participation in integrating sustainability, by giving students the opportunity to develop their own course with sustainability as a central theme. The Best Practice ranking was created by SustainaBul to increase knowledge sharing between educational institutions and to exchange their most effective working method, approach or activity in the field of sustainability. This year, a total of 79 best practices were submitted, from which the four-member expert jury selected a top five. The selection criteria were interdisciplinarity, innovation, student involvement, community engagement and taking a broad perspective. The winner was Saxion Hogescholen with their Circular Textile Lab.