Green today, brighter tomorrow – join us in building a sustainable future!
The Green Team Pharmaceutical Sciences (PS) was founded in 2021 by several staff members and students of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences who shared a passion for making their science more sustainable.
Since then, the team has played a crucial role in leading the path towards sustainability in both research and education. The group is growing every year, now including members from all department divisions and welcoming anyone who wants to contribute to this mission!
Updates
Poster presentation - Science4Life
On Monday 2nd December 2024, representatives from the Green Team Pharmaceutical Sciences presented a poster about their initiatives during the annual conference Science4Life at Beatrix Theater, Utrecht.
First lab to receive a bronze-level accreditation
On December 19th 2024, the Division of Pharmaceutics became the first in the Faculty of Science to earn the Bronze-level accreditation under the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF), a programme promoting sustainable lab practices like energy efficiency, waste reduction and resource reuse. In 2024, all wet-lab divisions in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences joined LEAF, supported by the efforts of Green Team members.
Join and help
Are you as inspired as us in improving the sustainability at the Utrecht University? We are always looking for motivated people who like to join this taskforce, please reach out to us at greenteam.pharma@uu.nl!
The benefits
- Learn how to implement meaningful sustainable practices in an organization.
- Actively help to improve the sustainability in various faculties of the organization.
- Take part in interesting projects in which you can share your ideas!
- It is a "bottom up" initiative so we are in control