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HEC Lausanne
The Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne) is a public business school within the University of Lausanne (UNIL). Since 1911, and with almost 3300 students and 340 employees, HEC Lausanne is a training ground for current and future executive, business leaders, teachers and researchers. Conscious that globalisation and deregulation of production and trade has led to new types of social and environmental challenges critical for society, HEC Lausanne is committed to promoting ethics, responsibility and sustainability (ERS) in all its activities and partnerships. We are devoted to equipping our graduates with what they need to “responsibly” cope with these challenges: the awareness of the varied ethical and sustainable issues with which modern companies are confronted, the ability to critically reflect on those issues, and the knowledge about proven management practices in terms of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. Fostering ERS at HEC Lausanne means subscribing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and marrying them with economic prosperity, privileging responsible, ethical, and accountable decision making and management. Fortified by this clear commitment to ERS, HEC Lausanne is proud to have become a PRME signatory this year and to be now part of the DACH Chapter. We believe that this strong institutional signal will help raise the awareness and dedication of our students, professors and staff members for ERS and will unite them in the realization of our sustainable development objectives. We very much look forward to participating in the exchanges in the DACH Chapter!
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A “Certificate for Sustainability Change Agents” (SCA) was piloted at FHWien der WKW in November and December 2022.
This English-language training course was a voluntary, extracurricular offer developed by the “Change for Corporate Sustainability” competence team at the Institute for Business Ethics and Sustainable Strategy (IBES). The training course aimed to promote individual skills that would enable the participants to initiate changes towards sustainability within their professional organizations. These skills included strategic thinking, communication, teamwork, and self-reflection. The course took place in form of seven interactive lectures including discussions, exercises and reflections. For the pilot, 20 students from different study programs at FHWien der WKW were accepted as participants. The certificate will be evaluated based on course output (i.e., students’ tasks), interviews, and a self-assessment by participants on competence acquisition (pre- and post-participation). Learnings from the evaluation will be used to adapt and improve future implementation of the certificate.
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MCI | Entrepreneurial School® joins global Climate Alliance network
In order to further promote sustainable management and to accelerate climate protection measures in a targeted manner, MCI | Entrepreneurial School® has joined the Climate Alliance Tyrol (Klimabündnis Tirol). Becoming a partner involved a multi-stage ClimateCheck, which among other things analyzed the status quo of the operation and the climate protection measures taken to date. The MCI team, led by Alexander Dumfort, Tommy Mayr and Regina Obexer, developed a comprehensive climate protection roadmap for the next five years together with Klimabündnis Tirol with the goal to achieve more sustainable operations.
The detailed catalogue of measures includes the expansion of green mobility for staff and students, raising awareness through targeted communication, adjustments to infrastructure, energy saving measures, waste management, and increasing the number of green events at MCI. In a next step, the goals will be communicated and discussed in a range of workshops within the MCI community in a participative process aimed at including further ideas and creating a sense of agency.
By becoming a Climate Alliance partner, MCI joins a strong network: In addition to the more than 1,000 Climate Alliance communities, some 1,300 companies throughout Austria have also committed themselves to the Climate Alliance idea, with MCI being the first university in Tyrol to join the Klimabündnis.
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Symposium
A Chance to Change: Veränderungen im Non-Profit, Sozial- und Gesundheitsbereich erfolgreich
gestalten
This year's symposium of the Department Nonprofit, Social and Health Care Management focuses on the topic "A chance to change - successfully shaping change in the nonprofit, social and health care sectors."
Marianne Dobner, co-founder of Hallo Klima!, will kick off the symposium with a keynote speech on "Climate protection - communicate, act, motivate", followed by a range of interesting presentations and discussions.
Organiser: Department Non-Profit, Sozial- und Gesundheitsmanagement, MCI | Die Unternehmerische Hochschule
Keynote Speaker: Marianne Dobner, Co-Founder of Hallo Klima!: „Klimaschutz - kommunizieren, handeln, motivieren“
Date: 13. – 14. February 2023
Mode: in Person
Place: MCI | The Entrepreneurial School. Universitätsstr. 15, Innsbruck, Austria
Duration: 2 days
Cost: Free
Further information here
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Workshop
"Accelerating the energy transition - reducing the shortage of skilled workers" on 22.2.23 at 10 a.m.
The shortage of skilled workers is omnipresent. Be it in hospitals, in administrations or in the skilled trades - in our view, the need for skilled workers for the energy transition and climate protection is particularly important. If we do not quickly implement the existing solutions for the energy transition and climate protection, other crises such as refugee flows, severe weather disasters or pandemics will inevitably increase in addition to the climate crisis.
But how can the shortage of specialists in the field of energy transition and climate protection be quickly remedied? To answer this question, we invite companies from the electrical, heating and renewable energy industries as well as educational institutions to the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences Wolfenbüttel, BELS administration building.
The workshop is sponsored by the Regionalverband Großraum Braunschweig as part of the event series "Five past Twelve - Climate Protection for All!".
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Theme day
"Sustainable nutrition" on 11.3.2023 at 10 a.m.
Since 2021, the Geopark sponsoring association Braunschweiger Land Ostfalen e. V. has set an annual theme to deal specifically and intensively with the individual 17 sustainability goals of the Global Sustainability Agenda 2030. This year, the sustainability goal Sustainable Consumption and Production was selected, and many activities have already taken place.
In cooperation with the Geopark, the BELS is organizing a series of contracts on Saturday, March 11, starting at 10 a.m. in the BELS administration building around the topic of sustainable food. Among others, Christiana Steinbrügge, District Administrator of Wolfenbüttel and 1st chairwoman of the Geopark supporting association, Detlef Vollheyde, organic farmer and co-initiator of the eco-model region Goslar, Ulrich Löhr from the Landvolk and the research coordinator of the Thünen Institute Stefan Lange, who is also a member of the Global Initiative against Food Losses and Waste, will be present. The presentations will cover a variety of topics: From sustainable cultivation and production to marketing, consumption and food waste reduction.
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Sustainability Forum
The Lower Saxony Climate Protection Act on Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 6 p.m.
The Sustainability Forum of the Brunswick European Law School (BELS) is the platform for sustainability issues in the region. Carina Holl from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Protection will present the law. Lars Tiedtke, LL.B., staff member at the Institute for European and International Business Law (EIW) at BELS will shed light on the legal aspects, and a speaker (requested) from the Institute for Climate Impact Research Potsdam will highlight the scientific basis of climate change and its consequences.
Brunswick European Law School (BELS) - Faculty of Law Ostfalia
Room Ro01
Salzdahlumer Street 46-48
38302 Wolfenbüttel or online via BigBlueButton
Registration here
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"Model United Nations - A Practical Guide"
Anna-Theresia Krein
(Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences)
The book outlines how a Model United Nations (MUN) program –a simulation of the United Nations work with and for students- could be incorporated in a high school or university curriculum. It includes comprehensive Electronic Supplementary Materials (ESMs) which should aid students’ preparation for a Model United Nation (MUN) conference.
The link to the electronic copy of the book can be found here
The book can also be purchased as hardcover and/or Kindle publication via Amazon
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The Future of Business Schools: Purpose, Action, and Impact
Are business schools on the wrong track? For many years, business schools enjoyed rising enrollments, positive media attention, and growing prestige in the business world. However, due to the disruption of Covid-19, many previously ignored issues relating to MBA programs resurfaced. I am very proud that together with my dear colleagues Prof. Dr. Anja Karlshaus, CBS International Business School and Prof. Dr. Danica Purg, IEDC School of Management we had been invited to contribute a chapter to this very meaningful book "The future of Business Schools". In our article we discuss innovative teaching formats to enable business schools for promoting a sustainable world. Sustainable Leadership is one of the key drivers for this sustainable transformation companies have to go through to tackle the challenges of todays’ world. It is our mission as business schools to equip our students with the necessary skills to become sustainable leaders for a sustainable future.
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Business Schools, Leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals: The Future of Responsible Management Education
Edited by Lars Moratis and Frans Melissen, the book contains chapters from various scholars and practitioners in the field of responsible management education (RME). Its aim is to inspire a future of management education and leadership development that demonstrates its relevance to sustainable development.
Chapter 8. The use of news articles as a pedagogical tool for responsible management education was written by Ruth Areli García-León (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences). The chapter presents the use of news articles as a pedagogical tool to include sustainable development issues in management courses. The proposal is based on the educational social constructivist theory of learning, the collaborative learning approach, and the author’s personal experience of more than eight years of using news items to address sustainable development issues in graduate and undergraduate management courses.
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