The University’s first Sustainability Week in December
At the beginning of December, a sustainability week will be held on campus. Then students and staff can take part in activities, lectures and exhibitions – all with a focus on sustainable development.
“There is so much going on in sustainable development at the University and it is fantastic that we can now show some of it.”
Eleonor Gullberg, Project Leader for the Sustainability Week.
The Sustainability Week in December is the first of several weeks on the theme of sustainability organised at the University. For five days, from 8 to 12 December, sustainable development and sustainability issues will be in focus around campus.
“With the Sustainability Week, we want to highlight the great work that is being done in the University’s various activities in sustainable development. The week will also be a meeting place for sustainability issues”, says Anna Hansson, Leader for Sustainable Development at the University.
“There is so much going on”
During Sustainability Week, sustainable development is highlighted through exhibitions, lectures and activities. Students and staff get the chance to learn more about environmental issues and sustainability. Among other things, there will be a lecture on climate change as well as an exhibition on waste projects. Among the activities on offer are also sustainable Christmas crafts for students and a clothes swap day.
“Visitors get to learn more about sustainable development from both a societal and an individual perspective. Some of the programme items may lead to reflection, while others are ones where you get to be involved and test yourself. There is so much going on in sustainable development at the University and it is fantastic that we can now show some of it”, says Eleonor Gullberg, Environment and Security Coordinator at the University and Project Leader for the Sustainability Week.
Students’ perspectives important
The activities during the week are organised by several different functions within the University, and also by Halmstad Municipality and Halmstad Student Union.
“There are many other universities that have sustainability weeks and it feels really exciting and fun to be part of Halmstad University’s sustainability week”, says Halmstad Student Union’s President Isabelle Widén and continues:
“You will have the opportunity to meet, network and talk about sustainability issues. It will be exciting to hear what the students think about sustainability and what sustainability means to them.”
Text: Thimmy Mård
Photo: Dan Bergmark
More about the Sustainability Week
The University’s Sustainability Week will be organised twice a year, week 50 in the autumn (8–12 December) and week 11 (9–13 March) in the spring.
The purpose is to highlight work in the University’s activities within sustainable development. The week will also be a meeting place where sustainability issues are highlighted.
The sustainability weeks coincide with the study periods with the elective sustainability courses in the undergraduate programmes that are part of the University’s sustainability focus. The ambition is for the sustainability courses to be linked to the sustainability weeks, in that the students who have taken a sustainability course recognise the course content of the activities during the Sustainability Week, and that students who are going to take a sustainability course are inspired during the Sustainability Week before choosing a course.
Future plans
The first Sustainability Week, in December 2025, is aimed at the University’s students and staff. In the long term, the idea is that the weeks will also be a meeting place for the University’s collaboration partners.
Each Sustainability Week will have a specific theme that touches on a specific sustainability area. The activities during Sustainability Week 2025 have a broad focus on ecological, social and economic sustainability.
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Environment and Security Coordinator and Project Leader for the Sustainability Week
