Green Gown Awards 2020 - Greenwich Students Union - Finalist

EcoTeam

EcoTeam is a collaborative, dynamic student and staff group co-creating positive sustainability impact through projects it conceives and delivers.  The team has two branches (Greenwich and Medway), bringing together people who are passionate about the environment and through collective innovations have brought around positive change. In its first year (2019/20) EcoTeam delivered a large number of wide-ranging projects in service to the environment and society that built members change-making capabilities. 

Students and staff from across the University’s disciplines and operational areas meet on and offline to explore how we can bring projects to life, developing and sharing knowledge, empowering learning, enabling skill development and practice and importantly celebrating the successes of the team. The group is highly motivated, drawing on skills and interests of its members and reaching out when needed. Members are empowered to step forward, do things that are new and to take measured risks and reflect and learn. 

Top 3 learnings:

1. Working on many different scale projects we delivered constant outcomes motiving engagement and further actions. 
2. By working together without hierarchy, our students and staff are liberated to deliver amazing things. 
3. Our students and staff make great things happen if we give them freedom and permission. 

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