Activities

To gain a deeper understanding of the world’s current situation, modern business practices, and how to become agents of transformation, professors encouraged students to work on real-world scenarios in the field.

- conduct a due diligence exercise (i.e. Alibaba Group, Cargill, UEFA, Novartis...);

- establish a benchmark of sustainable practices in a specific sector abroad (i.e. railwail, renewable energies...)

- draw a stakeholder mapping

- elaborate a materiality matrix analysis

- analyse extra-financial or integrated reports

- conduct ethical risk analysis of specific organizations based on a complete analysis of their business footprint, the faced scandals and evaluation of the measures taken to mitigate these risks;

- build an entrepreneurial project in team based on a common interest for a social or environmental cause of their choice;

- Obtain Bloomberg certificates (i.e. “Bloomberg Market Concepts” on financial markets and “Environmental Social Governance”) about implementing ESG reporting and strategies following online courses in self-paced.

- work on the B Impact Assessment (BIA) for different start-ups, SMEs or multinationals from diverse industries, identify areas for improvement, develop concrete and practical recommendations and critically analyze the BIA and B Corp certification.(B Corp Life experience)

Alongside classroom’s exercises, students are confronted with various guest speakers from both research and business on several topics such as CSR in sport, ESG and embedding sustainability into corporate processes, climate transition, sustainable finance, implementation of SDGs, driving the integrity agenda in Belgian public sector, Ethical Discussions in Artificial, Intelligence Applications, or still entrepreneurs and social purpose organizations

- Definition of social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs (UNAGO)

- The social and ecological transition in the field of mobility: the case of urbike (URBIKE)

- Social and sustainable entreprneurship opportunities and business models (ASmartWorld)

- Becoming effective changemakers (Harvard Business School & Harvard Kennedy School)

- Assessing the social impact of social enterprises: mission impossible? (Chair "Social Economy")

- Governance challenges at Hellow (Hellow)

- Social impact and scaling (TADA)

- Finance challenges in social and sustainable initiatives (Better.app)

- Driving the integrity agenda in Belgian public sector (Cabinet of deputy prime minister)

- GDPR & Artificial Intelligence Act - an introduction (Eubelius)

- Sustainable IT (Institute for Sustainable IT)

- Introducing Sustainability at Umicore (Umicore)

- Demystifying ESG and embedding Sustainability into corporate processes (ELIA)

- Materiality (B the Change)

- B Corp (Statik)

- Science Based Targets (BACA)

- An introduction to Commonland (Rotterdam School of Management)

- Debate following the movie from Festival Alimenterre (Rikolto)

- CSR Reporting (Cap Conseil)

- Presentation of Yuman as a case study (Yuman)

Other activities are also organized to raise students' awareness of sustainability and the actions they can take in their daily lives to contribute to it.

- Corporate visits to discover companies’ sustainability practices and to exchange with their representatives

- Visualization of impactful movies such as “duty of care” about a citizen's trial against the government and some actors in controversial sectors about their lack of drastic actions to tackle societal and environmental issues.

- Encouragements to participate in environmental challenges such as the Colibri Challenge to create a high environmental and social impact.

- Meetings (non-exhaustive list):

with Walloon CEOs to speak about their different companies, how they have evolved, the threats they faced always keeping in mind the sustainability dimensions.

RH managers to discuss how companies are currently considering humans as a capital person contributing to the company and how they are taking care of employees’ well-being.

With Queen Mathilde as Ambassador of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to discuss the theme "Challenging the business world in the light of the Sustainable Development Goals"

- Go to action :

Discussions about rethinking our relationship with energy, resources and living creature, including relation to each other

Helping the community with “community services”

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