Silver LEAF Medal for Microbiology

The Laboratory of Microbiology has been awarded the LEAF Silver Medal Certificate - in recognition of the actions undertaken to improve sustainability practices as part of the Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF). 

Lab manager dr. Rafael Cubero: "we have been making changes to our working methods to help WUR in the sustainability goals. We still have a long way to go to reach gold, but we will continue working towards it".

The LEAF program is a Netherlands initiative to make laboratories more sustainable. More about the LEAF program can be found at Green labs website