Green Gown Awards 2019 - University of Cambridge - Highly Commended

Engage for Change is a training programme where students build their engagement and advocacy skills. Students used these skills to design and trial sustainability interventions within their College or department.  

A pivotal part of the programme was creating a community to support peer learning. Within this community students worked together to identify what was working well and what could be improved in their projects. Through the programme students learned that each successful project was not just one action, but a series of actions and opportunities to learn and make improvements. 

Engage for Change has created a community of young environmental leaders who are knowledgeable in creating change, resilient and resourceful in project implementation, and who support each other in making those changes. 

Top 3 learnings:

• Development of resilience is key in ensuring long-term involvement of our students in sustainability action.  
• Creating a community for our student environmental leaders was essential in the success of our programme. 
• Our students’ sustainability projects benefitted from enhancing their understanding of the nature of change making.