Study Guide

Objective

You can characterize major global commitments to sustainable development and explain their influence on an industry level. You can create a framework for developing firm’s sustainable growth strategy including trends and issues regarding sustainable future. You can develop an action plan for implementing more sustainable growth strategies.

Content

How do international agreements and conventions govern sustainable development and what are the best industry practices for sustainability? How to incorporate sustainability into growth strategies? What are the metrics, measurements, and tools for tracking sustainability? (eg., ISO standards, triple bottom-line, key performance indicators (KPIs), lifecycle assessment (LCA), carbon management)

Opiskelumateriaali

Course material and literature will be announced later.

Yksilölliset oppimisväylät

The course will be implemented as scheduled in student timetables.

TKI ja työelämäyhteistyö

The course will include a number of business development tasks.

Tentit ja muut määräajat

Various individual and group assignments, no exam

Kansainvälinen yhteistyö

The course will be based on the international framework of sustainable development.

Opiskelijan työmäärä

The course is 5 ECTS and it is to be completed in English. 1 ECTS means approximately 27 hours of student work related to studying the course material, fulfilling the course assignments and acting as a group member.

Toteutuksen osien kuvaus

A detailed curriculum will be presented in the Learn platform when course begins.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Student can
* find, study, produce and evaluate critically multidisciplinary data in their field of expertise.

* solve demanding problems in research, development and innovation

* be responsible for operations and develop them independently.

* evaluate different strategic approaches and justify their use in terms of management and development.

Assessment methods and criteria

The course evaluation will be based on a number of assignments. No exam.