Green Office

Did you know that...

...the Bachelor’s degree program Sustainability & Change isn’t the only degree program that deals specifically with sustainability issues?

Field of action “Studying and Teaching”

...the University of Hohenheim has been using only green electricity since 2012?

Field of action “Campus & Infrastructure”

...we carried out a comprehensive greenhouse gas balance in 2023 which provides us with an overview of our emissions and enables us to drive forward CO2 savings in a targeted manner?

Field of action Research & Innovation

...the university committed to becoming even more sustainable and setting up a Green Office in its Structure and Development Plan 2023–2027?

Field of action “Governance & Strategy”

...Hohenheim was named Europe’s most biodiverse campus in 2023?

Culture and Transfer

Together toward a sustainable university

Originally an idea that emerged from the student body, the University President's Office decided to set up the Green Office as a contact and coordination point for sustainability at the beginning of 2024. The Green Office bundles university-wide sustainability activities, makes them visible, and networks stakeholders to create further synergies. It also raises awareness of the topic through various event formats and communicates to the university community and beyond. Together with the Vice President for Digital Transformation and Sustainability, whose position was created in spring 2024, it initiated and supports the university's sustainability strategy process. To this end, the Green Office established a Green Board and five Green Teams.

The Green Board as a strategic unit
Members of the university management, professors, students, and employees from all areas of the university are involved in the cross-status Green Board. The fixed positions of the five Green Team spokespersons and the head of the Green Office ensure networking from the Board to the Green Teams and also between the Green Teams. At its first meeting in November 2024, the Green Board decided to develop Hohenheim's sustainability strategy in a participatory process.

The Green Teams as operational units
The Green Teams, which are open to all interested parties, met for the first time in fall 2024 and structured and prioritized sustainability ideas that had previously been developed across the university at various events (Green Office kick-off, digital ideas platform, open day, etc.). Based on these ideas and objectives, an initial list of measures was drawn up, which was submitted to the Green Board and incorporated into the sustainability strategy. The Green Teams are currently actively working on putting these sustainable ideas into practice.

Would you like to play an active role in shaping the sustainable development of the university? Do you likewise have great ideas on how we can make the university even more sustainable? Do you want to exchange ideas with like-minded people and put these ideas into practice? Then take a look at one of the Green Teams!

We warmly invite all Hohenheim members to take part! The more diverse our Green Teams are, the better, because sustainability is a truly intradisciplinary issue that we can only tackle together.

Please contact us for registration and further information.

We look forward to seeing you here!

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Green Office Team

from left Anna-Lena Müller-Wengerofsky, Maximilian Offermann, Jasmin Riesner, Adrian Müller, Ashmita Acharya

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