Global sustainability and Innovation

The course Global Sustainability and Innovation deepens critical debates on sustainable development introduced in 0SV00.

The course takes a global perspective, investigating the (inter)dependencies and (justice) impacts that arise due to our (un)sustainable production and consumption patterns and lifestyles that are embedded in broader governance and power structures.

It also introduces innovative approaches and frameworks that aim to address sustainability challenges, such as notions of circular economy, responsible innovation and debates on sufficiency and commons.

The course positions these theoretical insights in and relates them to real-life settings.

The aims of the course are:

• to deepen and strengthen students’ knowledge about critical debates on sustainability
• to enable students to appraise approaches aiming to address global challenges
• to show the relevance of considering theoretical notions/insights for real-life practice

Learning objectives

After this course, students are able to:

• Evaluate critical debates on sustainability and approaches aimed at addressing global sustainability challenges.
• Select relevant academic articles on a given topic.
• Illustrate the relevance and shortcomings of theoretical notions by applying them to real-life cases and settings.
• Formulate findings and recommendations for (business, NGO, governance) practice

You must meet the following requirements

• Registered for a degree programme other than
• HBO-TOP Applied Physics, Pre-Master

• The course will draw on academic articles accessible through TU/e. Due to the range and topicality of the course’s themes state-of-the-art academic articles will be used.