About us
What is HZ Green Office?
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!
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.
We organise different events and projects aimed to make our school and local environment more sustainable. 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. We won’t have you sitting inside a classroom, but we provide you with real-life experiences, often organised outside in the open air.
Want to know more? Read our: HZ Green Office Report 2020 and the Green Office Report 2021 Q1 (Report HZ Green Office 2021 will follow suit!)
Come and 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; for more information on the various projects visit the project pages here on the HZ Green Office wiki.
Have a project or event idea of your own? We would love to hear about it and help make it into reality.
You can link your activities for the HZ Green Office with your study programme in several ways:
- via HZ Personality
- an assignment for a certain course
- a minor course
- an internship or board member position
How to find us
Email us at 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.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.
Can't find us there?
On Tuesday monring 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