 All right, good morning everybody, good lunchtime already and we are being in Carmen and we're going to talk about something completely different today because we are going to talk about sustainability and about how to use for quite student forces to allow them the student voice about sustainability on our campus. Exactly. So, before we begin though, I'd like to acknowledge and thank First Nations people for engineering relationship connecting people country and ancestors and unbreakable bond that's safely stewarded and protected the land waters and sky thousands, thousands of generations and in particular that we're on. I'm going to not pronounce correctly, but I'm going to try my best. I'm going to start with Jagara Jagara and you've got a poll people and we're both coming from Gabby Gabby left. So what you're going to present today is first of all we explain or journey like where did we start it and how did we got up here, what are our key takeaways of it and how do you can implement the same thing to amplify your voice and impact. It doesn't necessarily need to be in sustainability. It's based off the values that matter most to you. So let's start with our journey. So our journey started with attending the green summit in December 2022 last year in Asia. And he attended Thailand, as you can see, it was a lovely holiday. You got to see all sorts of different things. But we also entered to work. So we attended the green summit which was organized in the headquarters of the United Nations, and it was organized by humanitarian affairs. So together with 150 students from all across the world, we learned about how to take active action in your own community and just start right here right now, instead of trying to be perfect and trying to have everything together. Yeah. So, from that, we came out of that really motivated to do something. And I should reiterate to all of you guys here that you don't need to attend a fancy summit to do any of this that just helped motivate us to do so. So the first question you asked ourselves is, what, where's the gap, what, what needs to happen at our university. And for us, we actually went back to our values. So for me, I saw that we had a university that was high in sustainability. We have great global impact. However, we have all of this activity is done by the institution and students and staff in our community are passive participants in this. So for me, that was the gap. We have all this knowledge, but we're not active in it. Yes, same same. So I was, I, like, fascinated by sustainability in general so always try to see how can we make more impact and a phone like connecting university knowledge with the students and make it sustainable together. Yeah. And so then the next question you asked yourself is, well, who can help us. We're just two students. We have an idea. What do we do. And we first went up to our facilities management team that have a sustainability team within it and they make decisions say like composting and recycling and solar panels and things like that. So we had a meeting with the lead person there. And she kind of gave us a heads up that there's going to be a sustainability week later in the year, we're like, how can we be involved. So that was a great connection. But then the next question is, we can create something that we have in our heads, but is it really what anyone else is interested in. How can we be sure that we're actually doing something that's going to have rock roll on effect. So, yes. So this why we called out to the university community. At one side we tried to reach the students body by like sending out posters and surveys and asking what do you want from sustainability, which would be interested if we do a scaling workshop. And then we also reached out to the academic and professional staff is it like hey we are running this initiative do you want to be part of this movement. And the results were overwhelming. So it turns out we're not the only people that care about this stuff. Most of staff students, academic staff as well as professional staff came over and we formed a working group from that. And they helped advise us on different things what was already existing at our university what's already out there. So we're not duplicating stuff we're being more efficient with our time. And also, on top of that we had some academic say hang on, you're proposing something that's going to be well going. Why don't we get some students from the business and creative industries to create a business and marketing plan for you as part of their curriculum. So that's what we've got going right now it's underway, and we also started to develop a pilot workshop. And then what do we do on the way was we used very smartly the marketing at the university because if you want to outreach and you want to reach people you have to know that they know you so we had like an opportunity one to get some articles about our experience at the Green Summit in the marketing campaigns, and then secondly coincidentally or university range very high in the times higher education ranking sustainability, which we gladly participated in them as well. And that all led into the development of our pilot workshop and we should say that this pilot workshop wasn't just us coming out here going hey sustainability you should do it to do. We have all this knowledge, we don't have the knowledge other people have this knowledge but it's not about knowledge dissemination, we all kind of have a general idea what it looks like to be sustainable in our own lives. So we said how can we use that to motivate us. So we created a workshop that's all around engagement and empowerment, empowering yourself, not us empowering them as, as Lucy was mentioning earlier today. And that worked out really well. And it was really engaging. Yeah, so here do you see some pictures of our first workshop and as you can see like it's very interactive, we're all sitting hanging together it was not like you're speaking to people or creating together or journey. But along the way so this is only the very beginning for us, we have a lot to learn and we've learned a lot so far, but some key takeaways for us so far that I think that anybody with any dreams or goals that you might have. We thought we might sum them up for you so that you feel like you can go to your, your institution other your staff or student, and you can have that one idea, and how you can start rolling into something bigger. Yeah, first one. So the first one was choose a values based initiative so like also sustainability but yours can be anything that you're passionate about. And if you use a value based approach, you actually have a very quiet principle but you still allow flexibility around it so for for example both of us were like all right you want to do something about sustainability, but it's not setting stone how we're going to do it and we might have our own perspective and our working group is their perspective but just by having these main value in mind like what these that determines our decisions it actually was easy to have flexibility yet don't get off track. Yeah. So we quickly realized that there are people just like us with similar ideas similar values and those values can really create connections for instance, that working group we sent out to 100 that first email to about 150 academics. We started a working group of 40 professional staff members tent. They are passionate and it's going off of their own backs and I know we shouldn't be doing all these volunteer things I get that that's a discussion that we were having before. It's clear that these values really drive who we are and we're passionate about it and we want to be involved. In addition to that, we want to make sustainability accessible for all so not just at our university, but connecting our community to this so we've even connected with our local council, our local biosphere and different other organizations, as well as PhD students that are in marketing for instance we're meeting next week with a student in marketing where she actually has a consultancy business and branding a web design and she's creating our website. It's these knock on effects happen when you start connecting with people that have same values as you and that's your ethos of what you're doing. And then the last one we realized is that very important one is the capitalizing on opportunities so we just started on this journey not really knowing where we go to but we were very open minded and reached out to people. And like every opportunity we saw coming along that was suited for us we just jumped on it. And this I think a big lesson we learned like this, you just got to get started with something you create opportunities and you seize opportunities and just go for it. And I think we have this idea of what we're all in student voice and student representation because we see a discrepancy something that needs to be fixed and something that needs to be better. And that can drive us to do wonder as things, but we don't need to aim for perfection immediately. Sometimes our goals need to have roll on and it's really difficult when we see something how it should be that we keep fighting battles but instead sometimes it's easier to and easier for us our mental as well as more effective to start leveraging those connections start capitalizing on small things that are there. Yeah. So this is what we want to say like the next part we want to explain is how you can use this framework or how we did our journey in your journey whatever is your value and you want to see happening at your university. So, starting from the bottom, I want to ask you guys, you don't need responses, just get you to think, what are your doubts, why are you here today, perhaps, what are the things that care about most, and where do you see want to go. And in that, then where's the gap, where do you think things are needed. Yes, you can help. Who's in your network around you already. And then, don't create something you think other people need create something that other people want. And so who's interested and what is needed. Yes, and this is like another important point that we want to emphasize and why we chose to organize these workshops for our university community in a broader community, even though we're just two students, it's about this piece of influence like you always have a bigger impact than you think, like this is the biggest major effect of any of your actions, you just have to start doing something you might influence the small people in the room but they go by they might influence somewhere else like it's all about planting seeds and they come to flourish, but you are the one that have to do little things and they do. Yeah, and I'm a massive that so I'm doing my PhD in psychology stuff so I can't help myself to put a lovely model up. I'm a proper renter is ecological model. However, if then it's normally in childhood development but if we actually use it and imagine yourself being sent to an individual, we actually have far more influence than we recognize we have. And it's through modeling or behavior it's through the conversations we have informally it's not always in the formal boardroom or meeting rooms a change can actually occur. It's really a day kind of conversations and that's really where we saw, we didn't set up perfect meetings, yes we have those working years but actually most of the connections we built were oh I know somebody I know somebody is through that so if you imagine yourself as that individual. You have your family, your neighbors, your school, your work, whatever, but then they also have that to themselves and then they have that for themselves so it's amazing how we can have these ripple effects and have the small voice with huge impact implications that can happen. So yeah, thank you very much.