Leren voor Morgen
- Type
- Network / Association / Cooperative
- Industries
- Consumer health & consumer effects
About Leren voor Morgen
Leren voor Morgen is a Dutch cooperative and non-profit organization focused on sustainable education. Since 2017, it has brought together more than 150 members from schools, businesses, municipalities, and civil-society organizations to accelerate the embedding of sustainability in education.
The organization works across all education levels and positions itself as a national coordinator for SDG 4, Quality Education. Its mission is to connect parties in and around education, support collaboration, and help make learning for sustainable development a structural part of schools and institutions so that it has lasting impact.
Core Values
- Sustainability: The organization sees sustainability as broader than climate alone, including biodiversity, circularity, equality, health, and wellbeing in education.
- Collaboration: Leren voor Morgen emphasizes that no single organization can achieve this transition alone, so it builds coalitions and shared initiatives across sectors.
- Inclusivity: Its vision for sustainable education includes equal access, participation, and attention to social dimensions such as diversity and inclusion.
- Long-term impact: The cooperative aims to embed sustainability deeply in schools and institutions so that it becomes a lasting, structural part of education rather than a one-off initiative.
Unique Aspects
- National SDG 4 coordination role: Leren voor Morgen acts as the Dutch coordinator for SDG 4, linking education and society around quality education and lifelong learning.
- Large multi-sector cooperative: It is a cooperative of more than 150 members, including educational institutions, companies, municipalities, and social organizations.
- Whole School Approach focus: The organization uses the Whole School Approach as an integral framework to help schools embed sustainability across vision, curriculum, pedagogy, professional development, environment, and operations.
- Recognized in national sustainability rankings: Leren voor Morgen was listed as number 1 in the education and science category of Trouw’s Duurzame 100 in 2025, reflecting its visibility in the Dutch sustainability field.