Bob van Vliet wins sustainability award

Bob van Vliet wins sustainability award

Bob van Vliet has won the first ‘Most Sustainable Teacher’ award, an award from GreenTU for teachers committed to sustainability. 

‘Van Vliet teaches his students to think systematically about sustainability in their designs. He also uses materials with a low ecological footprint for his practicums. And outside the lecture hall, he regularly takes a critical stance on the university’s sustainability policy in his Delta columns,’ the jury concluded. 

^{Bob van Vliet accepts the award for ‘Most Sustainable Teacher’. (Photo: GreenTU)}

Nominations
The award was presented for the first time this year during Sustainability Day, an initiative of GreenTU, student council party Lijst Bèta and network Studenten voor Morgen. “A teacher is important in educating and inspiring students, especially with a view to a sustainable future. On this day, we wanted to put them in the spotlight,” says GreenTU president Marie-Anne de Gier.

GreenTU chose the winner from a long list of nominees put forward by student associations. Apart from winner Van Vliet, nominations included David Vermaas (Applied Sciences), Miren Vizcaino (Civil Engineering & Geosciences), Irene Dedoussi (Aerospace Engineering), Kristel Aalbers (Architecture), Arie van Deurssen (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science), Lise Magnier (Industrial Design) and Fatima Delgado Medina (Engineering, Governance and Management). (MvdV)