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Empowering Finland's Green Future: a Shared Journey Towards Decarbonization
20.11.2024, Joanna Sinclair
Green Transformation Challenges Every Organization to Renew Itself
The green transition means a shift towards economically sustainable growth and an economy not based on fossil fuels and overconsumption of natural resources. A sustainable economy relies on low-carbon solutions that promote the circular economy and biodiversity. It is the most significant systemic change of our time. Every organization must undergo a sustainable transformation to speed up the green transition.
For companies, the manufacturing industry, and municipalities, the green transition can mean investments in clean energy production, circular economy solutions, hydrogen technology, and introducing new services and operating models. Low-carbon roadmaps and sustainability strategies drawn up by different sectors are important to this package. (Finnish Ministry of Environment)
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Sustainability Competence Development Mapping
pdfThe plan template contains questions about what to consider in sustainable transformation while planning sustainability competence development. Download a PDF to help your planning.
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Rapid Changes Causing Skills and Capability Gaps
Complex sustainability challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and global inequality call for ground-breaking and societally impactful research. Our key research areas give us a unique chance to create multidisciplinary knowledge on cutting-edge sustainability solutions.
At Aalto University, we study many exciting sustainability questions, like giving rebirth to abandoned materials, a revolution towards more sustainable energy and mobility, and solutions for water scarcity. We study innovation for poverty alleviation, sharing economy, climate finance, and many other topics, enabling us to create practice-relevant and multidisciplinary knowledge on cutting-edge sustainability solutions.
Reskilling and Upskilling Are Essential to Make Energy Transition a Reality
Energy transition refers to the global energy sector’s shift from fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption to renewable energy sources. Making such a huge transition a reality calls for new types of competencies, which was widely acknowledged in Aalto EE’s event “Making Energy Transition a Reality – Closing the Competence Gap.”
In Matters of Corporate Sustainability, the Actions of the State Owner Are Important
State-owned companies must be pioneers in matters of corporate sustainability, which require in-depth and up-to-date expertise from corporate governance. The world’s leading experts enhanced their expertise in the Aalto University Executive Education’s tailored training program.
As An Industry, We Must Become More Transparent about Our Environmental Impact
Calculating the environmental impact of the process industry also benefits business, as long as the calculations are accurate enough and performed with the right tools, remark Antti Roine and Markus A. Reuter, trainers in the EIT ALCASIM: Advanced LCA Simulation program.
Towards the Green Future
We help our clients build a sustainable enterprise by developing the capabilities and competencies needed to create a sustainability strategy, ensure green growth, and build sustainability into their daily operations.
- Sustainability Masterclass brings your management team on the same page on sustainability matters
- Aalto EE consortium programs help you weave sustainability into your value chain
- Aalto EE helps to unlock your competitive advantage in the green transition via role-based competence development solutions across the organizations
Our expertise in large-scale training solutions ensures tailored training services for every role in your organization.
Services include:
- Strategy-based business and competence development
- Roadmap for sustainability competence development
- Designing customized learning architectures to meet the needs of future businesses and different roles
- Deliver programs and solutions with solid quality based on our experience in the learning business
Top Management Masterclass in Strategic Sustainability
This organization-specific Masterclass provides executive teams and boards with a common understanding of the significance of sustainability for the company's business, both from the perspectives of productivity and impact. After the training day, the company's top management will be better equipped to lead its sustainability initiatives and comprehend its importance for its short-term and long-term success.
Open Sustainability Programs
A responsible organization operates as sustainably as possible and considers its stakeholders and social role more broadly. The focus is on building long-term success and maintaining sustainable competitiveness, not on quick wins.
Our Co-Creation Process
Design
We start by developing an in-depth holistic understanding of our client’s development needs, business challenges, and strategic objectives, as well as current and aspired competencies. We customize and co-design with our clients to develop impactful programs building on the clients’ strengths and Aalto EE’s expertise.
The key steps generally include
- developing a shared vision of the desired outcome and impact and how it will be measured,
- detailed needs finding,
- collaborative ideation and iteration,
- validation of the program concept and methods, and
- finalization and approval of the program.
Delivery
We guarantee that program delivery will be impactful and inspirational. We deliver by selecting the best experts from our international faculty network and utilizing the appropriate learning methods. The Aalto EE Program Director has a key role in ensuring consistency and a red thread throughout the program.
Examples of learning methods:
- Impactful face-to-face experience
- Efficient and flexible online modules
- Business project work as an experiential learning platform
- Business coaching and/or mentoring
- Research-based innovative methods and simulations (e.g. Aalto Strategy War Game)
Impact
We evaluate the impact together with our clients according to the jointly agreed measures. We use both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Examples of impact measures:
- Leadership assessments, e.g. 360
- Agreed business KPIs, e.g. customer satisfaction (NPS)
- Other KPIs, e.g. a Leadership Index as part of an employee engagement measurement
- Value created by business projects
- Individual career progression
- Long-term impact survey for program participants
- Qualitative interviews
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