World’s biggest student survey on sustainability

Our goal? To get the biggest ever sample size in an academically robust survey of student opinions and attitudes towards sustainability, using this to create an engaging report that can lever action to transform education and direct society to a more sustainable and fair future.

Sign up to spread the survey here

Why is this important?

We know students care about sustainability and education but there is little research to support this that is recognized as representative enough. A robust data set can be used to leverage change within business cases, funding and resource applications and to inform policy. Individual organizations can also benchmark against the international data.

How will the survey be conducted?

We invite higher education institutions and student-facing organizations to send out the survey to their students. In order to avoid bias, the survey cannot be directly shared by individuals, organizations with a sustainability focus, or promoted as a “sustainable” or “environmental” survey.

The survey is available in English, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian and Dutch. We welcome translations for other languages so as to make the survey available to as many students as possible. Any student currently in higher education can take part. In light of the current situation with many events (including COP26) being pushed back, we have decided to push the publication of the survey data and results until later this year: the survey will be open from April until fall 2020. The results of the survey will be later analyzed and collected in a report, which will be shared among stakeholders across the globe. Read our blog post on how you can use the collected data here.

What are the targets?

300 universities and colleges promote the survey
A balance across all six continents with at least 30% of responses from the global south
50,000 individual student responses

Are your students taking part?

If you are a higher education institution or a student organization, you can help spread this survey. Together, we discuss how we can help you promote the survey in your country and organization. There’s promotional material ready to help you communicate the survey, tips on how to maximize the number of students responding, and a 1000 euro prize pot of incentives for students completing the survey.

Sign up to spread the survey here

More information

If you have further questions after signing up, please contact Sandi. Also good to know: we hosted two webinars about the survey to show interested organizations and higher education institutions how the data will be useful to them, what our goals are and how they can best ensure a strong response rate students. You can watch a recording of the webinar below.