Social gardening

In 2022 and 2023, we have tried out various ways with Social Work students from the Hogeschool Utrecht to connect people who would like a vegetable garden but do not have a garden themselves, with people with a garden who cannot maintain it themselves. Here you can find more information about what we have discovered and how we want to proceed.

School assignment for research & design

Find out what opportunities children and young people in your own neighbourhood have to maintain a vegetable garden and why that sometimes doesn't work out. Are there people with a large garden who would like a group of children or young people to come and maintain a vegetable garden for them? How can children and their parents or young people find those people with a garden themselves? Is the website buurtnatuur030.nl a good way to bring supply and demand together? Find out what courses Utrecht Natuurlijk offers to children and young people who want to learn gardening. Are you not satisfied? Think of a recommendation on how they can improve those courses. Does this appeal to you? Contact: ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl

Sustainable living for young people

We are looking for new ways to ask children and young people up to the age of 18 what they want to do about sustainability and then teach them how they can live more sustainably themselves.

Please note: a team of students and researchers can earn up to 1000 euros per student with a proposal for this challenge (in English): Young people live sustainably

Submit your proposal before the deadline via the indusac.eu website

This is what we have done so far: Students who completed a community service internship in the 2022-2023 school year have written pieces for our Instagram account, but we have not kept track of this and there are few followers.

A group of Social Work students from the Hogeschool Utrecht interviewed children and their parents in Lunetten last year about sustainable living and developed the three-card game (a kind of quartet, but with three cards). We tested the game with students from the Bonifatiuscollege, and distributed a number of copies to parents and teachers. You can download it here.

School assignment for Research & Design

Interview fellow students and their parents about sustainable living, make your own plan for a campaign via social media or develop a game about sustainable living that you enjoy playing.

Does this sound like something for you or do you have an idea yourself? Contact ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl

Organic food on a tight budget

In 2022 and 2023 we investigated the need for organic and sustainable food of people with a small budget in Lunetten. Read more about this trial with subsidized organic groceries here.

The challenge: organic food for all of Utrecht

Are you looking for an assignment for your studies or internship and would you like to contribute to the challenge of making organic food possible for the whole of Utrecht?

Join one of the initiatives in our step-by-step plan for organic food on a tight budget for 2030. Do you have an idea that is not yet included? Let us know at ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl. We will then add your subproject to the step-by-step plan.

In 2024, we want to take new steps with relevant organizations in Lunetten. Do you like good food and do you want to taste organic recipes from neighbors? Then contribute to our cookbook Organic food with a small purse in Lunetten.

On Kanaleneiland we let local residents taste organic food from May to September 2024. We share the results with the city council, people and organizations in the neighborhood. In consultation with local residents, we want to ensure that people with little money can buy or get organic, sustainable and healthy food more often on Kanaleneiland.

Sustainable living with a disability

A participant in the Yuth festival wants to make sustainable living possible for people with disabilities, for example aids made from sustainable materials.

Study assignment for students in practical training courses:

Talk to young people with disabilities in your own environment, ask them how they want to live more sustainably and develop a prototype for a sustainable aid in co-creation with them.

Present your prototype during a workshop that we organize together. Want to know more? mail ineke@duurzaamutrecht2030.nl