Leadership for Sustainability Transition
Registration for summer 2025 opens in January 2025.
Bachelor and Masters students, PhD candidates, as well as junior professionals from all walks of life who are interested in sustainability transition.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Boost your sustainability career skillset with intensive experience into becoming a more resilient and effective agent of sustainable transition.
We train both the hard and soft skills equipping you with tools and methodologies to consciously navigate and master local as well as national and international dynamics of change. With your new readings on sustainability goals and elements of change you will be able to clearly define your vision and goals while engaging others in your vision.
This workshop will help you build your tool-kit at three levels by combining:
- A solid exploration of effective response mechanisms to change and needed policy frameworks,
- A practical perspective based on ongoing projects and best practices in Switzerland and beyond,
- A deeper dive into the self-leadership skills necessary to aspire and engage your community.
You will Learn cutting-edge solutions for designing, implementing and monitoring sustainability transitions at the local, national and international levels.
Please note that it is the student’s own responsibility to validate this course for credit at their home university prior to the summer school, as specified in our Terms & Conditions.
Junior Professionals: CHF 1,100
External students (*): CHF 900
UNIGE students (*): CHF 250
(*) Bachelor and master’s degree-seeking students and Ph.D. candidates only. The tuition fees for lifelong learning students are subject to employment status.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 15 May 2024
Note: No course-housing packages are available for this course.
Note: A limited number of tuition fee waivers (administrative fee of CHF 100 excluded) are available for participants from the Global South. Registration by 15 March. Selection upon file.
Dr. Alexandre Hedjazi
Institute for Environmental Sciences
University of Geneva
Dr. Matteo Tarantino
Adjunct Professor
University of Geneva
24/6/2024 |
25/6/2024 |
26/6/2024 |
27/6/2024 |
28/6/2024 |
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09:00 |
Welcome, Introduction to Course |
Sustainability Governance (Alexandre Hedjazi) |
Sustainability complexity: Navigating from the experiment to the production of co-benefits (Alexandre Hedjazi) |
Sustainability Assessment for Public & Private: Main Frameworks (Lavinia Colantoni) |
Science / Policy Interfaces |
10:00 |
Rethinking Sustainablity: SDGs, Agenda 2030 (Alexandre Hedjazi) |
Sustainability Communication: Getting the Message Out (Matteo Tarantino) |
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11:00 |
Site Visit: Sustainable Infrastructure |
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12:00 |
LunchBreak |
Assignment Work |
Lunchbreak |
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13:00 |
Lunchbreak |
Trip to WEF |
Lunchbreak |
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14:00 |
Sustainability Data: New Developments & Challenges in Cities (Matteo Tarantino) |
Site Visit: |
Site Visit: |
Site Visit: Sustainablity for the private sector (Bryonie Guthrie , World Economic Forum) |
Purpose-Led Leadership: Inspiring Positive Transformation (Louise LeGat) |
15:00 |
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16:00 |
Purpose-Led Leadership: Fundamentals (Louise LeGat) |
Purpose-Led Leadership (Louise LeGat) |
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17:00 |
Social Event with GSPI @ UN-Beach |
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18:00 |
Assigment work |
Social Event : GSS Dinner @ Cave Valesianne |
Assignment Work |
Conclusions |
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19:00 |
Masa Fazlic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
I successfully completed the Geneva Summer Schools, University of Geneva, Program "Leadership for Sustainability Transition". Great two weeks behind me. We had an opportunity to visit UNEP IT and World Economic Forum and learn from their representatives. It was an honor to meet so many inspiring people who share the same vision - to make this world a better and more sustainable place for all living species.