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Leadership for Sustainability, Master's Programme (One-Year)

The course Sustainable Development: Individual, Organisational and Network Perspectives examines sustainable development through three interconnected perspectives: individual, organisational, and inter-organisational/network. Using a systems approach, the course explores how these perspectives interact in shaping sustainability work in contemporary organisational and societal contexts. The course addresses economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability, and introduces equality as an important aspect of how sustainability is understood and practised across levels and contexts.

The course introduces central concepts related to individual and group dynamics, organisational learning, and inter-organisational cooperation and collaboration, and applies them to sustainability challenges faced by organisations and networks. Attention is given to how sustainability issues can be understood and assessed from these three perspectives, both separately and in relation to one another.

Particular emphasis is placed on the dynamic relations between individuals, organisations, and networks in processes of sustainable development. The course examines how participation, collaboration, responsibility, and equality may influence opportunities and constraints for sustainability work in practice.

The course is based on student-centred learning through lectures, seminars, group work, and case-based activities in which students actively connect theoretical perspectives to practical sustainability challenges. The course also introduces AI as a support for searching, structuring, and critically discussing material and cases, with attention to its possibilities, limitations, and ethical use in academic work and organisational practice.

Syllabus - here you can also find course literature

Earlier syllabuses

Syllabus with literature list autumn 2027

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