Esade-URL brings Sustainability Week to university

Together for a better world

Beginning with a conference by the leadership expert Chris Lowney, Esade Sustainability Week aims to transform attendees into agents for change in areas such as education, sustainability, equality, diversity, the environment and social impact. Speakers will include alumni such as Micha Schara, a business developer at Impact Consulting, with the talk “Impact Consulting”; the Esade-URL professors dean Josep Franch and Gerard Costa with “Curricular Change”; Eugenia Bieto and Anna Ginés with “Leading Gender Parity”; and Alfons Sauquet with “The value of external stakeholders as springboards for embedding sustainability in business schools”; plus the experts from the business world and the third sector Lua Grimalt, ex-member of Médicos sin Fronteras, Celina Tamagnini of Circoolar, and Elisalex Lowenstein of Mary’s Meals Spain.

Within the framework of this venture, we will also be holding “Health Day”, a one-day event on April 14 devoted to the third SDG, i.e. health and wellbeing, which will feature a series of events including a talk by Florian Schulz, PhD in organisational psychology and head of psychological counselling services at the University of St Gallen; a mindfulness workshop by the expert Brooke Latham, a former Esade MBA student; the experience of Txell Playà, a high-level athlete who graduated in Law from Esade-URL; and testimonies from the entrepreneurs and opinion leaders in the sphere of well-being, Beatriz Rakosnik and Sonia Ribas.

Education making a social impact

Esade-URL educates and inspires their students and alumni to engage in sustainable development by incorporating new subjects into their programmes and launching new academic qualifications focused on social impact, including the new Bachelor in Transformational Business and Social Impact and the ‘Sustainable Management and Agenda 2030’ programme in Esade Executive Education, plus alliances with institutions such as B Lab Spain to foster the impact economy, research into social impact, and social discussion about the major challenges facing society.