Corporate Sustainability

Corporate Sustainability is the flagship course of the Group for Sustainability and Technology at D-MTEC. In this course, students learn about key concepts in corporate sustainability and develop skills to implement them in the real world. The course prepares students for making well-informed sustainability decisions in their future careers.

The course uses constructive alignment to bring the various innovative teaching and learning elements (e.g., case-based experiential learning, reflective thinking and blended learning with videos and quizzes) into a coherent transformational journey. Students can now flexibly, efficiently, and effectively acquire the conceptual foundations that are essential for a substantial understanding of corporate sustainability.

Innovative and current: The Corporate Sustainability course is constantly changing in response to academic and corporate engagement with the topic of sustainability. Stimulated by this societal engagement, the course is also a place for innovation in teaching. In 2018, SusTec’s Corporate Sustainability lecture was nominated as a finalist of ETH Zurich’s KITE Award for innovative teaching. In March 2021, the lecture team received an Innovedum grant for the project “Case-based collaborative group coaching in corporate sustainability”. Subsequently, the course was redesigned, transforming its approach and strengthening its student-centered learning. We integrated collaborative activities into the course, in particular with a 360° case study of a large Swiss retail company to foster holistic and cross-disciplinary learning. As of 2024 thematic adjustments allow a larger perspective at the industry as a whole, which also includes the current regulatory framework and the perception of innovation in the field.