FOUR CONCRETE PROJECTS
To put this commitment into action, we have jointly developed four concrete and operational projects. Each of these projects reflects our core objective of uniting Management Schools around projects with specific contributions in the area of Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability (ERS) and Impact Projects.
Through the participation of students from different Belgian Universities in the same course, the aim of this project is to foster cross-fertilisation between Master students and, in doing so, to raise their awareness of open-mindedness and mutual enrichment. The main common denominator of the ‘pedagogical projects’ covered in this course will be an aspect of environmental and social sustainability. The course is aimed at Master students in Business Engineering and/or Management Science. Students will collaborate on a real project at a partner company – the project having been evaluated as fitting in terms of subject matter and complexity.
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This project is designed to improve PhDs’ training by creating concrete opportunities for researchers (scholars, post-doc, etc.) from a Dutch speaking University to present ERS related research or research with strong societal impact to PhDs from a French speaking University – and vice-versa. Research is seen as a work in progress and the discussion will address the following issues: not only results, but also – and mainly – methodology and epistemology. Methodological and epistemological discussions are seen as key aspects, as they determine the conditions under which ERS research are seen as ‘robust’, with a ‘long-term view’. Globally speaking, the aim is to consolidate a common research culture on these issues by hybridizing central research issues. Our PhDs will gain in maturity, professionalism and openness to the world.
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This project is a key initiative designed to strengthen Alumni engagement on their long-life learning across the network of Management Schools. It consists of discussions between Alumni Networks on challenges and difficulties to transform organizations and implement Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainability (ERS) as well as Impact Projects in professional practices. The aim is to foster open and rich dialogue between Alumni and academics on the theoretical and practical challenges of changing organizations for the common good.
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PROJECT #4. EXECUTIVES BEYOND COMPETITION (IN COOPERATION WITH ALLIANCE 2030)
This pilot project proposes a series of three face-to-face training sessions in autumn 2025, co-organised with Alliance 2030 and hosted by partner Universities. Alliance 2030 is a community of business leaders engaged in a process of collective learning and sharing, with selected content on sustainability issues and best practices for regenerative businesses, with humility, transparency and a willingness to act. These sessions are designed for CEOs and board members and will cover key sustainability topics such as planetary boundaries, doughnut economy, post-growth approaches, systems thinking and innovation for regeneration.
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