Events & Community Team of the UvA Green Office is responsible for planning events and providing opportunities for community building around sustainability. We focus on events centering critical and alternative approaches to sustainability and forming platforms for community engagement where students can come together to learn from each other and socialize through common values. For this aim, the team works on establishing connections and collaborations across UvA campuses and different organisations throughout Amsterdam, to ensure an interdisciplinary and intersectional community of students discussing and mobilizing for critical sustainability. The Events & Community Team is critical in moving the Green Office towards our mycelium networks goal in which we aim for an interconnected and mutually nurturing community of critical sustainability.

The Events & Community Team focuses on establishing an interconnected, diverse and interdisciplinary community as well as event-planning that displays the multidimensional aspects of sustainability and their applicability to our daily lives. The team is responsible for planning events and providing opportunities for community building around sustainability which center critical and alternative approaches and prioritize horizontal learning among the student body. Through building bridges between sustainability-focused groups and institutions in Amsterdam and the student body, we aim to establish a long-term community that is interconnected, and mutually nurturing and encouraging. 

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Thus, the team holds 3 main responsibilities:

• Creating and sustaining an interdisciplinary sustainability network in the university which involves students, staff and administrative bodies in which different actors can engage in mutually nurturing relationships and horizontal learning structures. 

• Organizing events and workshops that highlight the diverse interpretations of sustainability and display its ease of applicability to each field of interest. 

• Creating sustainable collaborations with organisations in and outside of the university for organisational cooperation and learning, to explore alternative approaches to sustainability policy. ​​​​

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