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Building Human Capital toward Sustainability
This course is open to management staff who want to explore their capacity to lead, unlocking the potential of human capital as an essential tool to achieve competitive advantage and sustainable business. Participants will be able to explore the topics of human capital strategy and leadership while gaining insights into establishing effective programs for career development, performance management, team growth, etc.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Discuss the importance of human capital and the need to manage it strategically
- Explain the elements of the human capital strategy and activities needed to achieve it
- Relate the leadership style, organisational climate and the human capital management
- Design activities and action plans for different types of programs to manage human capital
- Develop an initial human capital strategy adapted to your organisation
- SMEs managers
- HR managers
- Students of Business, Organisational Psychology and related fields
- Teacher: Rhonda Bowen
- Teacher: Angelina Taneva-Veshoska
- Enrolled students: 1
ESG, Sustainability and Sustainable Development - Reporting and Auditing
The course is intended to provide participants with an advanced understanding of what ESG, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development are, how the reporting and auditing in these fields are done, how they developed through history and different international levels, and how important they are for every organisation. The course will also include several practical examples of real situations and dilemmas regarding the use, adaptation and creation of tools.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Examine ESG, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and elements of reporting in these fields related to the competitive advantage of the company
- Be able to value the company strategy and activities towards what is reported and audited
- Use different methods and platforms for reporting and auditing ESG, Sustainability and Sustainable Development
- Managers
- Business owners
- Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
- Students
- Teacher: Rhonda Bowen
- Teacher: Toni Srbinoski
- Enrolled students: 7
Green and Social Entrepreneurship Business Modeling
The course aims to provide participants with tools and techniques to start a (social/green) business. The controlled learning environment enables participants to discover their entrepreneurial mindsets and deal with individual challenges that might arise in bringing a business idea to life. The journey starts from the idea development and contains all the necessary steps of setting up a green or social business. The course will finish with a pitch of each individual’s developed business idea.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Develop business ideas
- Use design thinking and social canvas tool for social business modelling
- Understand customer and beneficiary segments, pains and gains
- Provide a sustainable business model
Everyone interested in founding a green & social business
- Teacher: Rhonda Bowen
- Teacher: Waltraud Jelinekkrickl
- Teacher: Bojan Jovanovski
- Teacher: Ingrid Kienberger
- Teacher: Johannes Oberndorfer
- Teacher: Yao Amevi Amessinou Sossou
- Teacher: Rene Wenzel
- Enrolled students: 3
Green Marketing
Consumer knowledge of sustainability issues has changed from being a new social concern to being a mainstream ideal. This course aims to increase knowledge about sustainable consumer, company, and societal behaviour. When it comes to a company's capacity to address sustainability challenges, marketing strategy is crucial. The course aims to assist participants in using specialised marketing ideas to create long-term plans with long-lasting effects.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Recognise the historical context, significance and impact of marketing in relation to sustainable development.
- Describe the relationship between marketing and sustainable development.
- Understand the importance of avoiding greenwashing tactics.
- Include sustainable development principles in the marketing tactics
- Examine marketing initiatives and tactics in light of principles of sustainable development
- Managers
- Business owners
- Entrepreneurs
- Students
- Teacher: Michail Delagrammatikas
- Teacher: Nikolaos Nikolaou
- Teacher: Emi Tsakalou
- Teacher: Lina Tsakalou
- Enrolled students: 1
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Enablers
This course provides an in-depth exploration of key challenges and enablers for SDG implementation. Through a combination of video lectures, readings, additional resources and assignments, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the interconnections between the goals and the importance of policy coherence, partnerships, financing, and monitoring progress.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Recognize and articulate key challenges and enablers in the implementation of sustainable development initiatives
- Understand the interconnections and trade-offs between different SDGs
- Examine the financial gap for sustainable development and its implications
- Understand the role of international organisations and the private sector in bridging the financing gap
- Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
- Teachers
- Students
- Lecturer: Marta Garcia-Haro
- Lecturer: Zofia Kunysz
- Enrolled students: 22
Introduction to Green Economy
The course will help the participants to recognize the importance of the green economy in creating green economic development in communities and organisations. The participants will gain insight into how green national policies are made, how green business strategies are prepared that will lead to green jobs, and the development of green work skills and social values - all elements that create a green economy as a basis for sustainable social development of society and the state.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Understand the Green Economy principles
- List different Green National Policies
- Summarise how green skills promotion and acquisition would support Green Economy Development
- Describe different business strategies for transforming companies and organisations into sustainable green, socially responsible ones
- Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
- Students
- SMEs Managers
- Teacher: Rhonda Bowen
- Teacher: Edvard Sofeski
- Teacher: Edvard Sofeski
- Enrolled students: 3
Introduction to Social Economy
This course provides a basic introduction to Social Economy. It also explores the role of the Social Economy in sustainable development goals and innovation. The participants will have the opportunity to understand different models of social economy and illustrate successful social economy initiatives.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Understand the definition and characteristics of Social Economy
- Identify different models of Social Economy, such as cooperatives, mutuals, associations, foundations, and social enterprises
- Explain the role of the Social Economy in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals
- Outline the potential of the Social Economy for social and economic innovation
- Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
- Students
- Teachers
- SMEs Managers
- Teacher: Rhonda Bowen
- Teacher: Carolina Marques
- Teacher: Florinda Matos
- Teacher: Ines Messias
- Enrolled students: 6
Introduction to Sustainable Development
The course will provide participants with a basic overview and knowledge of the concepts of “sustainability” and “sustainable development”, including definitions, main concepts and strategies. During the course, participants will understand the main concepts, discuss and reflect on different concepts critically and get a basic understanding of sustainable business practice.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Explain various definitions and the evolutionary development of the terms “sustainability” and “sustainable development”
- Summarise the key concepts of sustainability
- Explain sustainability strategies
- Describe and explain sustainability dimensions
- Reflect and discuss sustainability concepts critically
- Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
- Teachers
- Students
- Teacher: Ingrid Kienberger
- Teacher: Johannes Oberndorfer
- Teacher: Yao Amevi Amessinou Sossou
- Teacher: Rene Wenzel
- Enrolled students: 10
Introduction to Sustainable Finance
The courses will help participants to understand the potential that sustainable finance products bring to their organisation. The course covers topics related to sustainable, green and climate finance and its impact on achieving the SDGs.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Understand sustainable, green and climate finance
- Summarise the core concepts of sustainable finance and the relevance of sustainability considerations for the key actors in the financial system
- Explain the contribution of sustainable finance to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
- Describe different sustainable finance products, such as bonds and loans
- Managers
- Business owners
- Entrepreneurs
- Students
- Teacher: Rhonda Bowen
- Teacher: Snezana Kostadinoska-Miloseska
- Enrolled students: 1
Understanding the Relations Between Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Biodiversity
This course examines essential issues pertaining to sustainable development, climate change, and biodiversity conservation. It offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the difficulties and opportunities associated with addressing these crucial global issues.
Completing this course will equip you to:
- Understand the basics of sustainable development, climate change, and biodiversity protection and how they are connected
- Examine global, national, and local sustainable development, climate change, and biodiversity policies
- Learn to critically assess complex environmental concerns from scientific, ethical, and social perspectives
- Use critical thinking to develop climate change and biodiversity mitigation options
- Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
- Teachers
- Students
- Teacher: Ebun Akinsete
- Teacher: Maria Angeliki Chatzigiannakou
- Teacher: Alice Guittard
- Teacher: Alice Guittard
- Teacher: Phoebe Koundouri
- Teacher: Eleni Toli
- Enrolled students: 6
