Management Education for Sustainability

It contributes to the process of a sustainable transformation by enabling the education of a new generation of leaders for businesses that are willing to lead this process. The Sustainable Development Goals serve as a guiding framework in this respect. Exploring new approaches towards sustainability, experimenting with non-traditional ideas about education and business, and undertaking education and research initiatives in a spirit of engaged scholarship that emphasises both a practical orientation and societal value is the professorship’s trade. Its signature is that of a catalyst rather than a critic, though with an activist touch. Its end goal is to make sustainability thrive.

This professorship aspires to serve as a thought leader that is a force for change on the interface of sustainability, education, and business. Its impact is reflected in both furthering the agenda of management education for sustainability worldwide and nurturing a new generation of sustainability leaders. This manifests itself through developing and providing access to curriculum content and leadership programmes, exploring and sharing ideas on novel didactics and pedagogies, and mapping and influencing the institutional infrastructure of management education for sustainability.

Research by the professorship builds on the concept of sustainability intelligence – a concept developed by professor Lars Moratis and professor Frans Melissen. Progress made by the professorship’s research team will be shared ‘open access’. Central to the research endeavours of the professorship is a spirit of engaged scholarship which ensures alignment between academia and practice, an orientation on relevant issues and societal contribution.

This professorship is closely linked to the professorship of Sustainable Experience Design.

The research team:

• Frans Melissen, PhD
• Lars Moratis, PhD
• Lauren Verheijen, MSc MA