This week seven students from around the world will handover formal recommendations to Aalborg Municipality (Denmark) about how the city should approach their new sustainability campaign, ‘make us all greener.’

This innovative student-government partnership is the first of its kind in Europe, in which students have worked closely with local government over three months under a program called International Network of Green Agents (INGA).

The recommendations draw on research and experience from a broad range of fields including architecture, philosophy, business, psychology and sustainable energy systems.

‘A city’s identity crosses economic, political, social and environmental boundaries’ says INGA project manager, Timothy Shue, ‘so we needed a sophisticated response that was able to deal with this level of complexity, and with around 60,000 higher education students in the city it made complete sense to draw on their knowledge, both international and local.

Aalborg Municipality is hoping to continue the partnership with the group into 2018.

For other cities in Europe and around the world, INGA has demonstrated that local students may offer untapped resources of knowledge and creativity to bolster local transformative actions.

For more information about the programme, visit here.