Organise an event during the Sustainability Week 2025 - Students
The Sustainability Week programme consists of events organised by staff and students at Lund University and Lund Municipality.
If you, as a student, are interested in organising an event, you can apply via our call for interest that you can find on this page. On this page you can also find information about who can apply, what the planning group can do to support and many tips on how to create a successful and sustainable event.
Who can apply?
Those eligible to apply to organise events during the Sustainability Week 2025 are:
- Student Unions and associated guilds
- Nations
- The Academic Society (AF) committees or associations
- Individual students can contact their student union, nation, AF committee and affiliated organisation or department they belong to for cooperation, or apply to participate in the Sustainability Forum Student Series.
Sustainability Forum Student Series
Contribute to the content of the Sustainability Forum Student Series during Sustainability Week!
Monday-Friday during Sustainability Week 2025, the Sustainability Forum will offer an opportunity for students to organise events in collaboration with the Sustainability Forum during specific times in the programme. This includes a public venue at the Lund University Library, as well as support in planning and assistance during the event itself, if needed.
Individual students and organisations not affiliated with AF can apply for this via the call for interest form. There will be a limited number of slots during the week and an expression of interest is therefore not a guarantee of participation.
Apply via the link below!
Call for interest
Click here to access the application!
Tips and support
Here, we have gathered tips for organisers and outlined what we at the Sustainability Forum can assist with.
Event structure and content
As organizers, you are primarily responsible for the content and structure of your event. However, our planning team is happy to act as a sounding board for developing ideas and event formats.
If you need help finding participants for a panel, a moderator, or are interested in collaborations beyond your own networks, we can assist with contacts.
When inviting external guests, we encourage you to choose individuals who can travel to Lund using a sustainable mode of transportation.
Promote your event
Each organizer is responsible for reaching their desired target audience and promoting their own event.
Suggestions for promoting your event:
- Posters in Lund University’s facilities where your intended target audience will be (remember to use the Sustainability Week logo)
- Social media
- Targeted email invitations within your own networks
In all promotion of your event, please state that the event is part of Sustainability Week and refer to the overall program.
Social Media
Use the hashtag #hållbaralund in your social media posts.
Feel free to create a Facebook event for your arrangement. Add Lund University Sustainability Forum (Lunds universitet) as a co-host to make it visible in our event list. Contact us if you need assistance with this.
Lund University Sustainability Forum - facebook.com
Graphic design, Images, and Posters
Feel free to use the Sustainability Week graphic materials for marketing.
Materials will be available for download here at a later date.
Overall Marketing of the Program
The Sustainability Forum at Lund University and the department Hållbar tillväxt at Lund Municipality are jointly responsible for the overall marketing of the week. It will be visible on buses, trains, billboards in Lund, and on social media.
Important dates
1 November 2024: The call for interests to apply for organising an event during the Sustainability Week opens.
We will contact all those who have filled in the call for interest continuously.
14 February 2025: The call for interests closes.
After 14 February: All applicants will be contacted regarding their participation in the programme. Please note that we have a limited number of events in the programme, and submitting an expression of interest does not guarantee participation.
14 March: Deadline for organisers of accepted events to submit event descriptions and images for the programme.
April: The Sustainability Week website with the programme will be published.
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Checklist for organising an event
A few things to consider when you start planning your event:
- Topic: Which sustainability issue do you want to highlight and present during your event?
- Purpose and objective: Why do you want to organise the event and what do you hope to achieve? To answer these questions will help you with the further planning of the event.
- Target audience: Who do you want to reach? Lund residents, other students, professionals, adults, children, etc. All events in the program are open to the public, but it’s good to have a target audience in mind during planning and promotion of the event.
- Format: What type of event works best for your topic and audience? Workshop, panel discussion, exhibition, quiz, film screening, etc.
- Venue: Where do you plan to hold the event? Please indicate in the call for interest form if you need help with this.
Promote your event: The Sustainability Week is promoted as an overall event by us, but think about how you can reach your specific target audience and how you can promote the event for maximum exposure.
For questions, please contact the Sustainability Forum’s student employees!
Questions? Contact us!
Johanna Weitekamp, student employee, johanna [dot] weitekamp [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (johanna[dot]weitekamp[at]cec[dot]lu[dot]se )
Malin Bruce, student employee, malin [dot] bruce [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (malin[dot]bruce[at]cec[dot]lu[dot]se)