New team helps students and employees lower the climate footprint

Since January, a new team of three employees has been working to develop and spread sustainability initiatives at the Faculty of Health Sciences.

- We must do what we can to contribute to a more sustainable world. Therefore, I am very happy that, alongside the many other sustainability initiatives at SUND, we have created a small team that works to make our university more sustainable, says dean Bente Stallknecht.

The new team has been put together from different professions hoping to embrace both educational activities, research and innovation issues, dissemination and dialogue as well as strengthening the efforts in relation to creating a more sustainable campus.

Everyone is more than welcome to share ideas and thoughts on potential sustainability initiatives and collaborations. If you are stuck with ideas or need help getting a project off the ground, contact a relevant person in the new team.

Meet the team 😎♻️

Nikoline Borgermann, PhD
Nikoline is the initiator of SUND's successful LEAF programme and responsible for the work with green labs. She has worked in wet labs for 7 years and knows the problems from inside.

William Demant, MSc. in rhetoric
William has worked at SUND's communications department for five years and knows which strings to pull when you need to capture the attention of both employees and students.

Mathias Westermann, MCs. in educational science
Mathias is the coordinating heart of the team. He has previously worked in SUND's management secretariat and knows exactly what it takes to get your ideas on the management's agenda.

If we really want to push the agenda

- We could easily plan some exciting and informative talks and hope for the best, but if we really want to change something going forward, we must create and nurture green communities. Because getting attention from those who can make political and systematic changes, become way easier when we all work together, says William Demant, who helps out SUND's sustainable initiatives with communication.

- I find that the management at the faculty is ready to go to great lengths to support sustainable initiatives from students and staff. That is why we need people to organise themselves at and around the university so that we can work together on the green agenda.