The student-run Green Office has spent the past months working on creating the first sustainability reader of the University of Bonn and is now publishing the results of its efforts.

Back in November, the University of Bonn signed framework agreements with two partners for office chairs who value sustainability as well as value for money.

This year’s Fairer Februar campaign month saw the launch of the University’s very first Sustainability World Café. The student-run Green Office, General Students’ Committee (AStA) and university management had invited everyone to participate at the Fritz Café.

Once again in 2022, the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Bonn gave away a great many pine and spruce trees in various sizes for people to deck out their festive living rooms.

Staff and students getting involved to promote eco-friendly mobility and climate action.

Fridays for Future has brought the issue of climate change onto our streets—but what would a university education look like that gave students the interdisciplinary skills they needed to help fight climate change? A group of students at the University of Bonn have worked together to come up with some recommendations, which they have now published as part of the “Climate Change—Learning for Future” project. This was run by the Wissenschaftsladen Bonn in partnership with the University of Bonn and funded by the Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung Nordrhein-Westfalen, an environmental and development foundation for North Rhine-Westphalia.

Fairtrade soccer balls for University Sports, fairtrade coffee and bananas in the cafeteria ... and close cooperation in committees. Luise Tegeler, Judith Meder and other students campaigned for greater fairtrade awareness at the University of Bonn for two years. Now as the two are finishing their master’s degrees, they are passing the torch. on to a next ‘generation’.