Welcome to the global platform for sustainability professionals and CSR managers! This platform is about you and your profession. What does it take to embed sustainability in business? Join this peer-to-peer learning environment, if you want to share your best practice or find out what your peer is doing.

Learn about the – science based – 7 roles and 8 competencies to be effective in your job, the 4 levels of job classification or broaden your network and knowledge at the yearly community event and survey  “state of the sustainability profession”.

Every year we organize the “State of the Sustainability profession”- event, the most experienced peer2peer learning summit, where we unveil results of the yearly survey on the state of the CSR/sustainability profession. The kick-off event of the 5th edition of “The State of the Sustainability Profession” (SOP) will be held on September 15^th. Due to COVID-19, this year’s event is now transformed into multiple online events and workshops spread across numerous dates.

Would you like to see the results of last year’s survey, get tickets for the workshops or participate in the survey of this year?

Learning and other activities of the Sustainability University Foundation are built upon a science based framework of 7 roles (in the organization) and 8 competencies (of the individual) to be effective in your job and the 4 levels of job classifications (of your profession)”.

Companies play an important role in the transition towards a circular economy. Embedding circular economy is relatively new for most companies and professionals. This transition requires the people working in companies to do things differently. Different from what they were used to and were trained for.

The Sustainability University started this project to study the specific competencies among sustainability professionals, to successfully realize the circular economy within their companies. Our research show that “system thinking”, “foresight thinking” and “entrepreneurship” is mentioned as the most important competencies for embedding circular economy.

The aim of the project is to further develop knowledge about competencies necessary for circular economy and to share it with the sustainability professionals. We collect data by sending out a yearly survey to sustainability professionals. You can participate in this years survey.

We organize peer to peer learning or “circular economy matching”. With a small group of about 5 CSR professionals you visit a company that is successful in implementing circular economy. You can share your case and be inspired. Are you interested? Let us know!

This project is supported by The Goldschmeding Foundation.