2020 Sustainable Development
Content
- Sustainability challenges
- Basic concepts in the field of sustainability
- Sustainable development and social responsibility
- Sustainable governance
- Social innovation and social economy
- Social entrepreneurship
- Sustainable value chain management
- Sustainability marketing and communication
- Measuring social impact
- Situation in EU
- Situation in Slovenia
- Best practices in sustainability and social economy
Objectives and competences
Objectives:
- to make students understand the challenges we as a global community face in the coming decades and to evaluate how individuals, businesses, governments, NGOs and different networks can contribute to resolve them,
- to inspire students with a broad understanding of issues of global sustainability, social responsibility and social economy and provide them with practical skills to develop and implement solutions for sustainability and social responsibility issues,
- to equip the students with the knowledge about the sustainability and social economy tools, stakeholders, frameworks and best practices,
- to make students understand the importance and the growing possibilities in the sector which will develop dynamically, offering new employment opportunities.
Competences:
- ability to understand the concepts of sustainability, social responsibility and social economy and their interrelations,
- capacity to approach emergent problems and generate future-oriented solutions, and know how to work at the intersection of different disciplines,
- ability to responsibly manage the resources and to optimize the environmental, social, and economic impact of an organization
- capacity of systemic thinking, facilitating cooperation and understanding of importance of ethical behaviour