Sustainability Week wins ISCN Award for Student Leadership

Simon Liebi and Lorenz Keysser from ETH Zurich (in their fifth and third semester respectively of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Environmental Sciences), along with Rosa Brown, who is studying for a teaching diploma at the University of Zurich, collected the award on behalf of the organising team.

The ISCN awards this accolade in recognition of outstanding projects run by committed students who play an instrumental role in creating a more sustainable campus and inspire other students to launch their own ideas and initiatives. The award ceremony took place at the ISCN Conference and was attended by representatives from more than 70 universities – including MIT, Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stockholm University, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Hong Kong, NTU and NUS in Singapore and the University of Oxford.

The Nachhaltigkeitswoche (Sustainability Week) is the largest student run sustainability program in Switzerland. It is now in its fourth year and organised voluntarily by over 75 students from 5 universities (around a third of them studies at the department of environmental systems science) with over 55, 000 students in Zurich. Over the past three years the Nachhaltigkeitswoche has not only inspired over 7,000 visitors and held over 100 events but successfully contributed to concrete sustainability outcomes at the universities.

The next  external pageNachhaltigkeitswochecall_made will take place from 5th to th 11th of March 2017.