Leadership for Sustainability Transition

Registration for summer 2025 opens in January 2025.

 
WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?

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.

You will Boost your expertise into the role of infrastructures (Grey and Green Infrastructures ) and new strategies such as Nature-Based Solutions to meet sustainability goals while reinforcing societal and systemic resilience.

You will Transform data into a dynamic changemaking tool. By improving or bootstrapping your sustainability data management skills from collection to disclosure.

You will Powerfully manage multiple interactions between various stakeholders (Municipalities and local governments, National governments, International Organisations) in developing new solutions within a Post-Pandemic Recovery Scenario.

Finally, you will Enhance your inner leadership, alignment to your own purpose and capacity for transformative communication. So that you can bring to life unique visions that fit the impact you want to have in this field.

Enjoy focused knowledge packages provided by guest experts from UN and and other International Organisations, State and City of Geneva Network with leading professionals and experts.

 

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
Senior Lecturer
Institute for Environmental Sciences
University of Geneva

Dr. Matteo Tarantino
Associate Professor
Department of Communication and Performing Arts
Catholic University of Milan

 

 

24/6/2024

25/6/2024

26/6/2024

27/6/2024

28/6/2024

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 

Mialy Rann, GSPI

10:00

Rethinking Sustainablity: SDGs, Agenda 2030 (Alexandre Hedjazi)

Sustainability Communication: Getting the Message Out (Matteo Tarantino)

11:00

Site Visit: Sustainable Infrastructure
Plage des Eaux-Vives Renovation Project

12:00

LunchBreak

Assignment Work

Lunchbreak

13:00

Lunchbreak

Trip to WEF

Lunchbreak

14:00

Sustainability Data: New Developments & Challenges in Cities (Matteo Tarantino)

Site Visit: 
Foresight & Integenerational Dialogue
for Sustaianbility 
Dimitry Mayrasyn (UNECE)

Site Visit: 
Sustainability Assessment & Certification in the Public Sector : the case of the Geneva Canton & U4SSC (Christina Bueti, ITU)

Site Visit: Sustainablity for the private sector (Bryonie Guthrie , World Economic Forum)

Purpose-Led Leadership: Inspiring Positive Transformation (Louise LeGat)

15:00

16:00

Purpose-Led Leadership: Fundamentals (Louise LeGat)

Purpose-Led Leadership (Louise LeGat)

17:00

Social Event with GSPI @ UN-Beach

18:00

Assigment work

Social Event : GSS Dinner @ Cave Valesianne

Assignment Work

Conclusions

19:00

 

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Masa Fazlic, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 2022 In-Person Edition

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.