Tag - Intermediate Level

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

The course addresses the competencies needed to create effective synergies, engage with ecosystems, formulate strategic partnerships and create value. Particular emphasis is placed on the dynamics of Circular Economy collaboration models across value chains and industry verticals. There is a focus on communication skills, social networks and new technologies that boost a collaborative culture and management best practices.

Completing this course will equip you to:

• Analyse the value chains, sectors and ecosystems
• Identify synergies and use a different set of tools to formulate the right partnerships
• Use social networks and communication strategies to boost your network and develop an extrovert and collaborative culture
• Extract best practices from relevant case studies and success stories presented by market experts, entrepreneurs and policymakers, both in the private and public sectors

• Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
• Students
• SMEs Managers/Owners
• Academics

This course will guide participants through the topic of sustainable business models including the different archetypes and different case examples of successful sustainable business models. Further, participants will get acquainted with the use of the Sustainable Business Model Canvas and develop a draft of a Sustainable Business Model.

Completing this course will equip you to:

• Explain the different archetypes of Sustainable Business Models
• Identify relevant actions and measures to integrate sustainability into an existing business model
• Illustrate a sustainable business model via the Sustainable Business Model Canvas

• Managers
• Business owners
• Entrepreneurs
• Students

The course aims to understand how effectively managing organisational capital is crucial for organisations looking to thrive in a rapidly changing business environment. Participants will involve a combination of strategic planning and commitment to fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. These assets are not physical in nature but play a crucial role in the organisation's success, contributing to efficiency, productivity, and competitive advantage.

Completing this course will equip you to:

• Explain the elements of the organisational capital
• Discuss the importance of organisational capital and the need to manage it strategically
• Relate organisational capital and financial management
• Design activities and action plans for organisational learning
• Develop an organisational capital strategy adapted to your organisation

• SMEs managers
• HR managers
• Students of Business and related fields

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

In this course, the concepts of recycling, down-cycling, and upcycling are presented in terms of their significance for the sustainable handling of waste as a valuable resource. The participants can learn the basic differences between recycling, downcycling, and upcycling. They can learn from existing practices/products how various materials otherwise considered waste have been brought back into use by re-/down- or upcycling.

Completing this course will equip you to:

• Understanding the principles of circular production
• Analysing production components and applying circular principles
• Designing interventions for introducing circular principles in design, manufacturing and end-of-life product management in TCLF and furniture sectors

• Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
• Business/SME owners/ Managers
• Entrepreneurs
• Students

This course unlocks the power of behavioural and communication research within a sustainable framework tailored for SMEs. Discover how sustainable behaviour promotion drives success, backed by illuminating case studies. Grasp the pivotal role of understanding target groups and delve into innovative methods to decode their behaviours using the COM-B model. Learn practical applications through real-world projects, from nudging to leveraging social norms.

Completing this course will equip you to:

• Describe the relevance of behavioural and communication research in a broader sustainability context
• Explain the COM-B model
• Apply the COM-B model on exemplary or own cases
• Choose suitable tools to boost sustainable behaviour
• Differentiate barriers and chances of behaviour concerning Capacity, Opportunity and Motivation

• Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
• Managers
• SME owners
• Students

Completing this course will equip you to:

• Understand and describe objectives, requirements and implementation options of agile working
• Analyse the advantages and disadvantages of agile working in specific cases
• Use various agile tools/methods

• Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)
• Business/SME owners/ Managers
• Entrepreneurs

How can you change your behaviour to follow a sustainable lifestyle? This course will give examples and solutions to answer this comprehensive question. The focus lies on practical tips and tricks to:

1) Recognise our behavioural misalignments and

2) How can we shift to sustainable behaviour?

Completing this course will equip you to:

• Understand why we behave as we do even though we know it is not sustainable
• Understand different behavioural patterns
• Analyse your own behaviour
• Understand and analyse “Sustainable Lifestyle”
• Apply methods to change your own behaviour

• Managers
• Business owners
• Entrepreneurs
• Students