Bachelor's in Sustainable Business for Societal Challenges

Bachelor's in Sustainable Business for Societal Challenges

The main objective of the Degree in sustainable Business for Societal Changes(SUS.BUS.) concerns the management of the economic and social changes currently occurring in society, with a particular focus on the related challenges and opportunities.

The Degree employs innovative forms of teaching, with the adoption of interactive and experimental learning methods by involving students in a number of applications, laboratories, and internships, and teaching the most recent technological tools of ICT.

The Degree has a strong European and international character and is aimed at providing students with theoretical and managerial skills in order to successfully manage social innovation and spur social entrepreneurship, which is aimed at achieving a positive social impact in the external society, as well as a better inclusion of all agents with particular attention to vulnerable groups (i.e., people with disabilities, migrants, individuals with gender identities, the elderly). The program is also aimed at helping students understand how to manage the territory and the necessary resources to improve the well-being of the communities.

The degree is characterized by a high level of interdisciplinarity, ranging from business, management, chemistry, and neuroscience. This allows the offer to students a multifaceted overview of a complex phenomenon such as sustainability.

The Degree has been designed with the involvement and support of the various social partners, including the most dynamic organizations in the field of research, innovation and social impact.

Year One

Mandatory activities

• Economy and society
• Accounting and Reporting for Business and Sustainability
• Analytic tools for social change (with Lab)
• Introduction to Private Law
• Fundamentals of sustainable entrepreneurship and business ethics
• Design and evaluation of behavioural policies

Select one of the following

• Neuroscience of social-cognitive enhancement for well-being and Neural bases of decision processes
• Sustainable, environmental chemistry and technology for the circular economy (with Lab)
• Economic geography in the Anthropocene & Socio-ecological transition policies (with Lab)

Year Two

Mandatory activities

• Social Innovation and CSR for sustainable firms
• Statistical methods for assessing societal challenges (with Lab)
• Business Law, Innovation and Sustainability
• Quantitative risk assessment tools for predicting future challenges
• Policies and social innovation for sustainable local development and tourism

Select three of the following

• Impact investing & venture philanthropy
• Organization design for well-being
• Sustainable Finance and responsible investing
• Social Enterprise in Sustainable Food Systems

Year Three

Mandatory activities

• Demography and social challenges
• Business Planning and Impact Evaluation

Select two of the following

• Environmental challenges and societal well-being
• Intellectual Property Law
• Industrial chemical processes for pollution prevention and control (with Lab)
• International regulatory harmonization policy for sustainable chemicals industries (with Lab)
• Psychology of decision making and ergonomics for well-being
• Psychology of sustainability and sustainable development

Additional activities

• Free choice
• European Language (not English)
• Lab Start-Up
• Internship
• Final thesis

In line with the professional profiles identified above, some potential employment opportunities involve the following:

• innovative start-ups with a social impact, with particular reference to those operating in the well-being sector;
• large companies aimed at improving sustainability and the social impact, capable of implementing social and environmental programs, as well as policies for inclusion;
• organizations of the Third Sector, as well as in national and international institutions. and supranational public Government Bodies.

The proposed Degree intends to form future entrepreneurs and managers of private and public companies, as well as national and international organizations, properly prepared to face the current economic and societal environmental challenges. Students will learn to:

• manage the economic and social transition towards more modern and sustainable firms;
• manage new types of business activities, aimed at combining profit and social interests, such as technological development and environmental protection;
• start new companies aimed at creating a social impact, or contributing to the further development of existing firms, helping them to improve their social impact and sustainability.

The project employs innovative forms of teaching, with the adoption of interactive and experimental learning methods by involving students in a number of applications, laboratories, and internships, and teaching the most recent technological tools of ICT.

A characterizing feature of this Degree is the international mobility within EUniWell of students and professors involved. Furthermore, students will be able to specialize in specific inter-and cross-disciplinary areas (such as business, management, and neuroscience).

This innovative Degree Course was designed with the involvement and support of the various social partners, including the most dynamic organizations in the field of research, innovation, and social impact.