Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges

The RCSC is led by Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers (Professor Environmental Governance and Politics, Faculty of Management) and Ad Ragas (Associate Professor Environmental Science, Faculty of Science). A group of Radboud University researchers, students, and lecturers from all faculties and an external advisory board are the internal and external pillars of the RCSC. Furthermore, the RCSC is in close collaboration with Radboud Green Office, the Program Director Sustainability and the Radboud Sustainable Development Network (RSDN) at Radboud University. 

The Radboud Center for Sustainability Challenges is supported by an interdisciplinary network of Radboud staff.

The RCSC Core Team is composed of 15 scholars across the many disciplinary faculties on campus. Our current team engages with sustainability issues within their own disciplinary focus of environmental science, transformation studies, economics, ethics, global governance, law, politics, anthropology, sociology, business and finance.

Through monthly meetings, the core team meets to build together a common understanding of sustainability research, teaching and action, that demands cutting across the disciplines. The Core Team also serves as an advisory board to the RCSC activities and a hub for collaborative writing projects, grant scoping, and sustainability strategy. 

Interested to join our Core Team? Contact us here or write us to rcsc [at] ru.nl (rcsc[at]ru[dot]nl).

As a compulsory part of education, every student at Radboud University will be educated on sustainability. What does this mean for the study programmes? What should they teach? What vision of sustainability will be offered? Read what it really means in our blogpost 'Sustainability at the heart of higher education curriculum' .

In terms of education, we make sure that each Radboud University graduate is aware of the concept of sustainability in relation to their field of study, and stimulate the offering of a wide range of courses and study programmes. We support in the development of courses related to sustainability aimed at interdisciplinary education, and in the development of education programmes with sustainability at their heart.

Would you like to know more about the offer of sustainability related education? Click here for more information on sustainability in education at Radboud University.

We enhance the connection of inter- and transdisciplinary research on sustainability by bringing researchers together, in seminars, joint projects and research proposals. Also, we increase the impact of Radboud University’s research to support the transformations and connections societies need to get to the SDGs’ objectives. We can do this because we make an effort to know society’s questions.

Check the ongoing projects and missions on Sustainability at Radboud University here. 

The RCSC is at the core of sustainability networks in Radboud and is dedicated to support all activities related to explore sustainabiltity challenges on campus and beyond. Read more about the different groups involved below: 

You would like your group to figure in the list below? Contact us at rcsc [at] ru.nl (rcsc[at]ru[dot]nl) so we can promote your network here!

TransAct: Transformative Sustainable Change in Action, the centre of expertise gathering researchers from different disciplines at Radboud Faculty of Management that contributes to the understanding and governance of transformative change.

TUTTIS: Transformations, fUTures and jusTIce for Sustainability, the network of interdisciplinary thinkers at Radboud University, foregrounding futures thinking to discuss, understand, research, and theorize just transformations for sustainability. 

Radboud University Law Clinic on Human Rights: The clinic where students collaborate with non-profit organizations in Europe and beyond, addressing real-life human rights issues through research that supports advocacy and public interest litigation.

The Sustainability Interest Group: The interest group from the Learning and Teaching Centre  brings together all the people who are interested in and working on this topic. Employees and students must develop ideas and competencies that are highly relevant to today's society, our environment and the economy.

The Canopy: The umbrella association for all sustainable initiatives in Nijmegen.

Rethinking Economics Nijmegen: The student organisation aiming to promote critical thinking within economic education at Radboud University, organizing events that focus on recent developments in economic theory and practice.

Do you have questions about Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges, want to be involved in our Core Team, or stay informed of activities and developments? Contact us here or write us to rcsc [at] ru.nl. 

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