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April 12, 2021
SOS-UK is hosting an exciting challenge-based summer school with RED WoLF where students from all disciplines will problem-solve challenges related to renewable energy.
April 8, 2021
SOS-UK are launching our 2021 monthly webinar series specifically for Green Impact teams.
March 22, 2021
We are super excited to share the news that Esmée Fairbairn Foundation have awarded SOS-UK three years of funding to set up Farming for Carbon & Nature!
The fourth annual Global Goals Teach In took place 22nd February – 5th March 2021 and was the most successful campaign since the first Teach In in 2018!
This year, our host Responsible Futures partnerships De Montfort University and Students’ Union and the University College of Estate Management (UCEM) have been delivering webinars.
March 16, 2021
Research by Teach the Future has revealed that 70% of UK teachers have not received adequate training to educate students on climate change
March 1, 2021
Wasting food feeds climate change. Did you know food waste is actually one of the biggest contributors to climate change, more than flying?
Some Students’ Unions who participate in our programme, Green Impact Students' Unions, share how they have kept sustainability on the agenda this year.
February 24, 2021
The SOS-UK Learning Academy is our hub of learning and development, with a range of opportunities designed to progress sustainability across the education sector.
February 22, 2021
Over the past few years, SOS-UK has begun exploring decolonising and decarbonising education and how we can support students and institutions to advance this crucial work.
SOS-UK and ShareAction have collated responsible investment policies from UK universities in an accessible library, to support institutions to improve and develop investment practices.
Global Goals Teach In
More than 40 students will present at the final conference of the SHAPE Sustainability Impact Project, led by SOS-UK and the British Academy.
We convened a roundtable for Higher Education (HE) senior leaders on responsible investment, and the important role universities can play in challenging the status quo.
The fourth annual Global Goals Teach In is due to take place 22nd February - 5th March 2021!
As Veganuary kicks off, a new and exciting scheme called Kale Yeah! launches to help university and college caterers plant-power their menus!
The Students' Union at UWE share what they have been doing on sustainability so far this academic year.
Green Impact is one of SOS-UK's flagship sustainability engagement and change programmes. It supports organisations, staff and students in making tangible changes to their practices, processes and wa
Our 2021 New Year's Resolution? Continue supporting Education for Sustainable Development.
Join us on the 15h January for our final webinar of the Horizon 2020 SAVES 2 project (Students Achieving Valuable Energy Savings)
We asked Holly, a Green Impact Project Assistant (GIPA) at the University of York about volunteering with Green Impact in 2019-20, and what volunteering in 2020-21 looks like!
send an open letter calling
Between 33% and 50% of all food produced globally is thrown away, join Olio to reduce food waste on campus.
Mock COP26
Living Wage Foundation
on Twitter
Liberating Sustainability is an intersectional take on the climate emergency. Over five weekly episodes, the podcast will focus on the intersections of race, sexuality, class, gender, and ability.
SOS-UK, alongside NUS, UCU and People & Planet, are calling for ambitious carbon targets to tackle the climate emergency and ecological crisis.
We are delighted to announce our 2020-21 Host Partnerships for Responsible Futures.
Back in 2006 Student Switch Off was launched to reduce the carbon impact of students living in halls of residences. 14 years and 1.3 million engaged students later the campaign continues to influence
The global food system accounts for 20-30% of greenhouse gas emissions with meat and dairy being significant contributors but is banning beef the answer to the climate emergency and the nature crisis?
Mock COP26 - a fully youth-led and inclusive online climate conference to fill the void of the postponed COP26 talks - begins in one month!
In 2010-11 we started a survey to understand more about student expectations and experiences of sustainability for their time in education. In 2019-20, we completed the tenth annual year of thi
This week, we launch our Invest for Change campaign: calling for universities to invest in the interests of students, not against them.
SOS-UK
Learning Academy
We are running a Kickstarter placement scheme, with our friends at Change Agents UK for sustainability teams in the tertiary education sector.
We are delighted to announce the students� unions who have received our annual special GISU awards for 2019-20. Congratulations to Birmingham Guild of Students, Undeb Bangor and the SU at UWE.
Student Switch Off ambassadors are key to promoting and embedding sustainable behaviours across their residences, achieving carbon reduction as well as building transferable skills for themselve
SOS-UK are launching a monthly webinar series specifically for Green Impact teams
We're part of the Finding Your Feet campaign with NUS, TOTUM and Endsleigh
We asked students in further and higher education their views on climate change and the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic�
NUS and SOS-UK response to Nestle's decision to stop using Fairtrade cocoa and sugar in Kit Kat bars
Like many organisations, we have been reflecting further in recent weeks on our role in advancing racial justice as an organisation with a focus on climate justice.
Clean Air One Atmosphere
Since March, the UK experienced a dramatic shift in working practices that took place almost overnight. Over the past few months, we�ve been encouraged to work from home if we can, travel less, and m
SOS-UK stands with the #BlackLivesMatter movement and protesters across the world standing up to systematic racism and police brutality.
Drug and Alcohol Impact
Following an almost nine year campaign led by People and Planet UoM, the University of Manchester have committed to full divestment from the fossil fuel industry by 2022.
Hatty Ruddick, of Manchester University and Students for Trees Council, is our guest blog writer this Mental Health Week.
Teach The Future
Student campaigners successfully push the University of Oxford to divest from fossil fuels and follow a net-zero investment strategy.
enormous steps
SDG Teach In
Student Eats
SOS-UK are excited to announce the launch of our new Learning Academy, designed to support our work in enabling more students to be learning and leading for sustainability.
ShareAction
You may or may not have heard of Ecosia before, so if you haven�t let me introduce a way for YOU to plant trees with your online searches. The best thing is, it takes minimal time to install, it does
In the recent unprecedented weeks with covid-19 protection measures including college closures, many My World My Home student teams have adapted their organising habits and projects to the online wor
Studying or working from home, travel restrictions, event cancellations, and reduced face-to-face contact with friends and loved ones are all precautionary measures taken to prevent the spread of COV
Sasha Beswick shares how volunteering for Green Impact as a student has influenced their journey to work in the sustainability sector. Sasha currently works as a Sustainability Analyst with the
After careful consideration, we have come to the difficult decision to postpone our Students, Alcohol and Drugs conference 2020, which was due to take place on 19th May 2020.
At SOS-UK, we continue to monitor closely the developing situation regarding COVID-19 and comply with recommendations and instructions from UK health authorities. Our highest priority is the health, s
At SOS-UK, we continue to monitor closely the developing situation regarding the COVID-19 virus (Coronavirus) and comply with recommendations and instructions from UK health authorities.
During People & Planet's Go Green Week 2020, SOS-UK, NUS UK and People & Planet co-hosted and co-organised a webinar on �Decolonising the University�.
North Bristol NHS Trust
The University of Sheffield Human Resources department has recognised Green Impact as a workplace learning opportunity that benefits individuals & departments.
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Zamzam, SOS-UK and NUS UK president, reflects on a remarkable event in Parliament, engaging our MPs in the Teach the Future campaign with UKSCN.
We asked students participating in Student Switch Off to share a sustainable New Year's resolution with us.
As part of People & Planet's Go Green Week, the NUS and Students Organising for Sustainability, UK are co-hosting and organising a webinar exploring Decolonising the University.
The RecycleLeague competition has engaged over 39,000 students across 10 universities, and the University of Worcester has been named as recycling champions, winning �15,000 to invest in sustainabili
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Student Switch Off is our sustainability engagement campaign for students in halls of residence. Resident volunteers help make the campaign a success, and build skills through their volunteering.
Over half of all UK universities have committed to divest from fossil fuels, and participate in the just transition to a low-carbon world.
At the Student Sustainability Summit on the 4th November 2019, Fope Olaleye, NUS Black Students� Officer, chaired a panel called �Climate Justice for Who?'. In conversation with Fope, was Muna Suleim
Penryn Produce
Let's take a moment to celebrate the winners of the Green Gown Awards 2019
As we continue driving our work forward and striving for more progress and better solutions to our climate and ecological crisis, it�s important to take a moment to celebrate excellent work, creative
Woodland Trust�s campaign
Student Switch Off
45 seconds. That�s less than the time it takes to boil the kettle, take out the rubbish or brush your teeth. It�s also the same amount of time that climate change, the greatest threat to our generati
In August 2019, the European Students Sustainability Auditing project, funded by Erasmus+ came to a close, and we're now able to launch all the resources we've developed through the project.
Recently moved into student accommodation? Now is the perfect time to adopt some healthy habits and implement a more environmentally friendly lifestyle when you move into your new halls or home. From
My World My Home is a prestigious leadership development programme for young people between the ages of 16 and 24 delivered in association with Friends of the Earth.
As the UK heads to the polling station once more on 12 December, SOS-UK is calling for the climate emergency and ecological crisis to feature at the centre of commitments made by all political p
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In the lead up to November 30th, we are encouraging young people to come together and promote the importance of woods and trees. We are giving away grants to support with planning the event so let us
?to share their leadership and learnings from the progress they�ve made?as part of the programme.
Keele University and KeeleSU first joined the Responsible Futures programme in 2014 as part of the pilot cohort. As one of three host partnerships, they aim
Anglia Ruskin University and Anglia Ruskin Students' Union first joined the Responsible Futures programme in 2014, first accredited in 2016, accredited for a second time in 2019. As one of
After 5 years of increasing levels of partnership engagement with the Responsible Futures programme, we are taking an exciting next step in our learning through the introduction of host partnerships
Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) is a new educational charity that seeks to get more students leading on and learning about sustainability. Building on fifty years of leading-edge camp
In the last 18 months, I've become a professional tree hugger! In the summer of 2018, I was successful in gaining a summer research placement with the United Bank of Carbon (UBoC),
SAVES2
The Youth Strike 4 Climate movement, led by children and young people from across the globe, has been going from strength-to-strength over this year.
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