Prerequisite/Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

A student who has been through the module:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• has knowledge about a diversity of possible dimensions in the concept of sustainability such as environmental, social, economic, ethical sustainability
• understands current challenges concerned with sustainability on different levels of societal life

Skills

• can characterise and analyse current challenges concerned with sustainable development
• can develop scenarios and considerations concerning viable strategic options as a response to the sustainable challenges
• can plan sustainable solutions to specified challenges including how to stage and organise a process for sustainable transition at company level or in another chosen context
• can develop or redesign business models to support sustainable transitions
• can work together with and enrol interested parties in companies, governmental bodies and / or from the civil society in a sustainable transition project

Competences

• can reflect upon viable strategies for sustainable transitions and consider the possibilities in a design oriented approach
• can reflect upon viable ways of engaging and enrolling actors from a diversity of knowledge, institutional and business domains by taking into account the repertoire of transition strategies

Type of instruction

Project assignment, carried out in groups of 2 to 5 students. The project should be planned in cooperation with a company or an institution.

Exam

Exams