Sustainable innovation project: materiality assessment (2235.YR.015556.1)
General information
Type: |
OBL |
Curs: |
1 |
Period: |
S semester |
ECTS Credits: |
3 ECTS |
Teaching Staff:
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
Language |
| Year 1 |
Maja Tampe |
Ciencias Sociales |
ENG |
COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
Organizations of all kinds are grappling with challenges of sustainability in their day-to-day as well as their strategic decisions and processes. Such challenges include, for example, the pursuit of CO2 reduction goals or of better labor conditions across supply chains, the search for materials with lower footprints, or the need to develop and apply metrics for biodiversity or wellbeing.
The Sustainable Innovation Project (SIP) starts with a specific challenge from a partner host organization. The Project is intended to strengthen students' ability to understand and analyze complex challenges and to co-create solutions with the partner host organizations in an iterative way to develop prototypes or actionable proposals. Ultimately, the Project is an opportunity to help lead change in an organization and an opportunity to learn from every step (and occasional misstep) along the way, across Term 1 and Term 2.
Course Learning Objectives
The focus of this first part of the Sustainable Innovation Project is to get an in-depth of the nature of the issue. Learning objectives for this first part include:
- Understand and where needed refine the scope of the project
- Gather and analyze information from the organization and other stakeholders, including the analysis of opportunities, bottlenecks, gaps, interdependencies and tensions
- Conduct a thorough materiality assessment related to the issue
- Rapidly develop a vision for change and the future, to be honed in on and refined in Part 2 of the Project
- Learn how to navigate team dynamics, how to manage the Project, and how to interact with decision-makers in organizations
Methodology
The Sustainable Innovation Project is - given the nature of the course - organized as a Lab where only a relatively small part of the course will take place in the plenary of the class and in coach meetings. The remaining hours of work need to be planned as a team with weekly work sessions, both individually and as a group, and a more intensive sprint about mid-term with intense touch points with the organization besides the weekly or biweekly check-in with the host organization. The course uses mixed methods to accompany the stages of the Projects, including interactive lectures on key ideas and concepts, exercises in and outside of class, coaching, as well as check-ins on progress and report outs by teams. The plenary classes include practical ideas for students to apply them in their own project.
Assessment criteria
10% Attendance and participation
20% Individual reflection
70% Team project with interim and final deliverables
Timetable and sections
| Group |
Teacher |
Department |
| Year 1 |
Maja Tampe |
Ciencias Sociales |
Timetable Year 1
From 2023/10/4 to 2023/10/11:
Each Wednesday from 14:00 to 15:30. (Except: 2023/10/11)
Each Wednesday from 15:00 to 16:00. (Except: 2023/10/4)
Each Wednesday from 14:00 to 15:00. (Except: 2023/10/4)
From 2023/10/25 to 2023/11/3:
Each Friday from 10:30 to 11:30. (Except: 2023/10/27)
Each Friday from 11:30 to 12:30. (Except: 2023/10/27)
Each Thursday from 10:30 to 12:00. (Except: 2023/10/26)
Each Wednesday from 14:00 to 15:30. (Except: 2023/11/1)
From 2023/11/8 to 2023/11/15:
Each Wednesday from 14:00 to 14:30. (Except: 2023/11/15)
Each Wednesday from 14:30 to 15:30. (Except: 2023/11/15)
Each Wednesday from 15:00 to 16:00. (Except: 2023/11/8)
Each Wednesday from 14:00 to 15:00. (Except: 2023/11/8)
From 2023/11/29 to 2023/12/7:
Each Thursday from 10:30 to 11:30. (Except: 2023/11/30)
Each Thursday from 11:30 to 12:30. (Except: 2023/11/30)
Each Wednesday from 15:00 to 16:00. (Except: 2023/12/6)
Each Wednesday from 14:00 to 15:00. (Except: 2023/12/6)
Thursday2023/12/14:
From 10:45 to 12:45.
From 8:45 to 10:15.
