Brochure for a 2-week in-person training session with Sweden\'s top provider of sustainability education. Other options (length of course) are also available.
2 week course - Introduction to Strategic Sustainable Development
1. Introduction
to
Strategic
Sustainable
Development
prepare your organization for the future
Course Overview:
BTH’s education for The results of unsustainable human development are
sustainable development
evident worldwide - climate change, species extinction,
was recently acclaimed
in a 2009 ranking pollution, poverty, and inequality are deteriorating our
completed by the EESD capacity to sustain our ways of life. Our society needs
Observatory.
more effective ways of using our skills and resources to
Come join our create positive change.
award-winning courses
on sustainability!
The purpose of this course to consider these sustainability
At a Glance: challenges using a whole-systems view, and suggests that
a transdisciplinary approach is needed to deal with the
• Small class sizes sustainability challenge of meeting our society's needs
• Two week course
duration today and into the future. The course is delivered in a non-
• Flexible delivery traditional educational setting with experiential and
locations
holistic learning methods, to enable hands-on learning.
If you are interested to help take action towards
sustainability with your organization, this course is for you!
2. Specific learning objectives:
“The question of By the end of the course, the learner will be able to:
reaching sustainability • Understand the relevance and power of whole-systems
is not about if we will
thinking related to our current sustainbility challenges;
have enough energy,
enough food, or enough • Understand and apply a framework for strategic
other tangible resources sustainable development (FSSD), a method for
- those we have. The planning and decision-making;
question is: will there be
enough leaders in time?” • Create a full sustainability analysis and a compelling
- Dr. Göran Broman and business case for the learner’s organization; and
Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt
• Share ideas and discuss common aspects related to
leadership for sustainability.
For further information, including course applications,
please contact us:
Ihsan Zakri
International Project Coordinator
Office for Contract Training and Projects
Blekinge Institute of Technology
EXR, Campus Gräsvik, 371 79 Karlskrona, SWEDEN
Mobile: +46 709 40 89 87
Direct: +46 455 38 52 41
Fax: + 46 455 38 52 07
Ihsan.Zakri@bth.se
www.bth.se/contracttraining