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Campus ❙ Brèves
See how ESCP Business School and the UN Environment Programme are
redefining what entrepreneurship can do
In July 2022, ESCP Business School and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) jointly hosted the symposium " Teaching
and Curriculum Development in Sustainability Entrepreneurship: Progress and Prospects " at ESCP's Berlin
Campus. It focused on how business schools are educating tomorrow's leaders to integrate sustainability as a guiding
principle to develop the new business models we need to live better and lighter.
visionary and expert presentations, panel debates, and workshops,
leading practitioners shared experiences, reflected on progress and
challenges, and facilitated conversations around co-creating future
pedagogy and practice in sustainability entrepreneurship
The Symposium is one activity of the partnership between UNEP and
ESCP to partner together to co-create and share globally cutting-edge
approaches and insights on fostering sustainability entrepreneurship.
The evidence on what should be done for the planet crisis needs to
be ingrained into the education of tomorrow's business leaders to
increase sustainability understanding and invoke action. " We need
a sustainability compass to guide what business models of the future
should look like " , said Garrette Clark.
Professors Florian Lüdeke-Freund and Robert Sheldon, as the
Academic Director and Co-Director of ESCP's MSc in Sustainability
Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MSEI), hosted the event with
Garrette E. Clark, Sustainable Lifestyles Programme Officer at UNEP.
Over two days, 25 invited guests and virtual global participants
discussed the state of business schools' curricula in the emerging
field of sustainability entrepreneurship and explored effective,
collaborative ways to accelerate its advancement. Throughout
ESCP obtient la Labellisation DD&RS
Label de référence de la Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE); il
consacre l'engagement d'une institution sur les problématiques de
développement durable et de responsabilité sociétale au travers
de cinq grands axes : Stratégie, Formation, Recherche, Politique
environnementale et Politique sociale.
ESCP a été récompensée pour l'ensemble de ses actions. Les auditeurs
ont reconnu les fortes transformations en termes d'enseignements
et de recherche ainsi que plusieurs projets ambitieux comme par
exemple :
* la mise en libre accès du cours " Energy Climate and Business "
* la double certification environnementale du bâtiment 2027
* le développement de ESCP Transition Network.
ESCP and UNEP have collaborated on such topics since 2020 in an
academic partnership in the MSc in Sustainability Entrepreneurship
and Innovation programme. Every year, first-year MSEI students
start the Sustainable Lifestyles Venture (SLV), a three-term project
course that explores how to develop and manage commercially
driven enterprises that will give consumers more sustainable choices.
The symposium concluded with current MSEI students pitching their
sustainability venture business plans which offered exciting visions
and reflected sustainability driven convictions of what can be done.
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