- For whom
- UniBg master students or the last two years of a UniBg single-cycle degree
- Type
- CREO-LAB
- Language
- English
- When
- Second semester a.y. 2023/2024
- Requirements
- No teaching prerequisites are required. Access is permitted only to those enrolled in a Master’s degree or the last two years of a single-cycle degree at the University.
- Coordination
- Scientific director: Silvana Signori | Project manager: Armando Persico
- Course code
- 179010-ENG
- Credits
- YES
- A cosa serve
Sustainability is one of the major challenges of the contemporary world. It is characterized by three overarching concerns: protecting the environment, creating economic well-being, and ensuring social justice. Addressing sustainability means not only understanding the tools available to businesses to manage, control, and account for these three main dimensions but also reflecting on the social, political, cultural, and economic dynamics that shape them.
These premises constitute the essential objectives of CREO-LAB Sustainability.
The course is workshop-based in nature and aims to introduce sustainability-related topics by means of in-depth studies on specific aspects, group work, testimonies from companies and start-ups.
Among the topics covered:
- Value and role of entrepreneurship in innovation and meeting individual and societal needs
- Global challenges related to sustainability and entrepreneurship
- Definition of the concept of sustainability in its three dimensions (economic, social, and environmental)
- Sustainability Governance
- Business models and business strategies for sustainability
CREO-LAB Sustainability also offers the theoretical and application tools to conceive, analyze and implement a sustainable business idea (to be developed in the final Project Work), through the development of an entrepreneurial mindset.
CREO-LAB: innovation, participation, multidisciplinarity
What is CREO-LAB?
– They are innovative, participative, and multidisciplinary workshops through which students address current socio-economic challenges to learn how to design original and effective solutions.
– These are proposals developed to enrich the study and personal pathways of students at the University of Bergamo, useful for enhancing skills in the following areas: innovation and creativity, resourcefulness, and a spirit of adaptation in the face of uncertainty, a sense of responsibility, and the ability to work in a team.
– They envisage the direct involvement of students in the challenges posed by a number of stakeholders in the area (companies, institutions, and organizations) and aim at enhancing critical analysis skills and the development of project ideas through co-creation and cross-fertilization between individuals with experience and skills gained in different contexts.
By participating in CREO-LABs, students develop an innovative, future-oriented, and opportunity-oriented mindset, as well as acquire a method to deal with professional and personal choices.Selection is by means of a call for applications.