Learning Objectives
The MSc in Transformative Sustainability is an internationally-oriented MSc aiming at providing students with the knowledge and the tools needed for transitioning companies toward a sustainable business and management approach, through the innovation of products, processes, systems and business models supported by technological advancements, and for understanding the influence of ESG criteria on governance, management and financial and investment decisions.
Actually, the transition to more sustainable paradigms must take into account both environmental challenges and social challenges, within the frame of a “just transition”.
In this transformation, technologies are a fundamental enabling factor: technology must be guided by an innovation process that starts from the vision and objectives and takes into account all the variables that characterize the business model and processes of companies.
In this respect, the program aims at combining the capability of strategic vision on sustainability (the why) with expertise in enabling science and technologies and processes (the what) through mediation of innovation and design methodologies (the how); the whole innovation path within sustainability is addressed from strategic planning to execution.
More in details, the qualifying goals of the MSc in Transformative Sustainability are:
- Provide fundamental interdisciplinary and advanced knowledge in the fields of Sustainability management and economics and in key enabling science and technologies for sustainability transition
- Develop competences on key methods and tools for sustainability
- Widen / deepen the knowledge into key enabling technologies for sustainability transition or theoretical methods and practical tools for sustainability management and entrepreneurship
- Foster the ability to apply knowledge adopting an interdisciplinary perspective and an entrepreneurial approach thanks to workshop activities;
- Develop a critical thinking approach and behavioral skills via ad hoc seminars and via in / out of class activities related to courses as well as via the internship (namely skills in communication, in interaction and teamwork, in addressing complex issues);
- Promote, besides English (language of the program), proficiency in another EU language (Italian for non-Italian native speakers).
In a nutshell the program aims at preparing professional figures who know how:
- To recognize and understand the transformations required by sustainability in the main business processes
- To outline and guide systemic innovation processes:
- not only focused on scientific and technological innovation but also on the organization, management and business model of the company itself ("meso" level, of mediation between strategy and technology)
- not only focused on the company or a part of it, but on a broader system, which sees collaboration with other external parties, or the main stakeholders and actors who can bring the different skills necessary to face complex challenge
- not only focused on environmental variables but also taking into account the social and economic impacts of the transition.