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The HZ Green Office is formed by a team of enthusiastic students from HZ University of Applied Sciences. We are passionate about sustainability and want to bring a change to the world! We organise different events and projects aimed to make our school and local environment more sustainable. We won’t have you sitting inside a classroom, but we provide you with real-life experiences, often organised outside in the open air.

Join us!

Meet students from different study programmes and varying cultural backgrounds, and have fun whilst doing good!

You can join one or several of our projects. Have a project or event idea of your own? We would love to hear about it and help make it into reality.

How to find us?

Email: greenoffice@hz.nl

Get to know us better by join us in our weekly meetings on Wednesday between 12:15-13:00 at PE214. You can also join the meetings online. Just email us if you're interested.

Find us in our physical office is located at the end of the PE-2 hallway at the HZ in Vlissingen. The space is not just our office, it's also meant to be used as a green collaborative workzone. On Tuesday morning from 10-12h, you can find us in our "popup office" in the hallway at Groene Woud Middelburg. Feel free to drop by!

Follow us on Facebook and on Instagram.

Our Mission, Vision and Goals

Mission: Our aim is to be the facilitating body in connecting people with sustainability by building and strengthening our community around action-based initiatives that generate a positive impact and inspire others.

Vision: HZ Green Office aspires to become a living lab that encourages its diverse student body by design to be the sustainability leaders of tomorrow.

Goals: 

• Walk the talk: HZ GO! stimulates internal stakeholders to act as role models (being part of our role in renewing/improving the social fabric of society)
• Aid the HZ University of Applied Sciences in their goal of incorporating the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)
• Strengthen our shared values by cultivating the local sustainability community and connecting people throughout Zeeland 
• Offer students practical and hands-on experience through our projects and activities

The HZ Green Office informs, connects, and supports students and staff to act on sustainability. At the same time, we develop our own ideas to embed sustainability in education, research, or the operations.

Our goal is to build and strengthen our (international) student community, connecting with each other around action-based sustainability initiatives that generate a positive impact and inspire others.

Read our: HZ Green Office Report 2020 and the Green Office Report 2021 Q1

HZ Green Office in the media

Green Office coordinator Svetlana Vylkova cycled to COP26 in Glasgow last December. Svetlana got featured in the ‘Ambassador Spotlight’ of One Young World. One recognizes #OYW Ambassadors for leading projects globally, creating substantial impact across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Check out Ambassador Spotlights: January 2022 to view the feature & learn about the impactful initiatives led by Avinash Pratap Singh, Hakiem Lalmahomed. Kisubi Denis, Rufaro Mudimu, Calvin Jodisi and Svetana Vylkova!

Referenties

• Ambassador Spotlights: January 2022, Ambassador Spotlights: January 2022, Ambassador Spotlights: January 2022, 14 februari 2022.
• Eva uit Terneuzen knokt voor een betere wereld, Eva uit Terneuzen knokt voor een betere wereld, Eva uit Terneuzen knokt voor een betere wereld, 12 februari 2022.
• Green Office Report 2021 Q1, Ingrid de Vries, HZ Green Office, 2 juni 2021.
• Report HZ Green Office EN 2020, Ingrid de Vries, HZ Green Office, 11 december 2020.
• Ruilbeurs, Ruilbeurs, Ruilbeurs, 14 februari 2022.