Social and Environmental Responsibility (5cr)
Code: BIP7021-3002
General information
- Enrollment
- 01.10.2020 - 31.10.2020
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 15.03.2021 - 30.04.2021
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Insinöörikoulutus / Energia- ja ympäristötekniikka (IE)
- Campus
- Wärtsilä Campus Karjalankatu 3
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 20 - 40
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Energy and Environmental Engineering
Evaluation scale
H-5
Objective
Student
Knows the main principles and guidelines of social and environmental responsibility.
Can identify socially and environmentally responsible business activities and practices.
Can design and perform environmental management activities as a team, and communicate and report the results for the wider audience
Content
Values of society
Environment and utilitarian thinking
Sustainability
International agreements on environment and sustainability
ISO 2600 standard, Global reporting initiative. Case forest certification, biodiversity and value addition in forestry.Socially and environmentally responsible business
Social enterprises and entrepreneurships
Communication and reporting of social and environmental responsibility
Corporate responsibility in practice: case examples from local medium-size enterprises