About us - Green Office

In april 2017 staff members and students joined forces during a brainstorm event to do something about the lack of sustainability measures within the university. They concluded that the university was in need of a group to do something about it. They decided to follow the already existing model of the GreenOffice Movement.

In October 2018 after a process of approval and the gathering of a budget, GreenOffice Uantwerpen was created and four students were hired to give life to this new organization. GreenOffice UAntwerpen functions as a sustainability network within the university of Antwerp.

GreenOffice UAntwerpen is a student organization that puts a spotlight on sustainability in and around the university. We motivate students and staff to practice more sustainability in their daily lives.

On this site you’ll find all kinds of articles and links to other projects as well as more information about GreenOffice.

Do you want to help us? Do you have ideas about sustainability?

• Send us an email (see contact below)​

• Increase the visibility of sustainability to demonstrate to students, staff and external parties its importance and indicate which initiatives already exist.
• Strengthen cooperation between existing initiatives and actors to create more and especially better projects through synergies.
• Finding additional capacity to create more time for coordination and knowledge exchange.
• Making link between bottom-up initiatives and CSR Steering Committee (and vice versa) to tie in with sustainability policy.
• Setting up a pilot project to give students the opportunity to shape the sustainability transition of University of Antwerp and increase engagement between students, staff and the environment and neighbourhood

​What the GreenOffice will not do:

• The Sustainability Network will not provide training or courses. This side of making the University of Antwerp more sustainable is already taken to heart by the Department of Education. However, practical support could possibly come from the Sustainability Network at lectures or film screenings, or if a speaker is invited. Moreover, the network can help spread the event announcement, reaching more interested parties.
• The Sustainability Network will not address research-oriented matters, this is taken to heart by (the research manager of) the Institute for Sustainable Development and via the current chair(s) around sustainability, among others.
• The Sustainability Network will not develop sustainability policies without the participation of the CSR Steering Group. However, there should be an exchange between the experience gained by the Sustainability Network and the Steering Committee, possibly a delegate from the Sustainability Network could be part of the CSR Steering Committee at a later stage.
• Technical infrastructure discussions can only be done by (or possibly in consultation with) the Department of Infrastructure.