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”.
Join one of our trainings on systems thinking or invite us for an in-house workshop
Order the book 7 Roles to Create Sustainable Success by Carola Wijdoogen
Every year, we conduct a survey under Dutch sustainability and CSR professionals the map the state of the profession in the Netherlands. The input of several sustainability professionals exhibits a general image of the current sustainability workforce landscape. In 2022, you can participate in the 5th edition of this survey and share your input during the State of the Sustainability Profession event on 15 September 2022: the most experience peer2peer learning summit for sustainability professionals.
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.
This project is supported by The Goldschmeding Foundation.
Is your business or department interested in a young talent (trainee) with the right sustainability skills and mindset? Are you a young talent interested in a sustainable job and/or job-related experience? The impact talent program works together with talents and companies to accelerate the transition to sustainable business.
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!
On Tuesday 23 November, the Sustainability University and sustainability professionals and -experts from different sectors with different functions and backgrounds…
Participate in our training on Systems Thinking (in Dutch), live on location at the inspiring CIRCL in Amsterdam. We have a…
On 16 September 2021, the Sustainability University hosted the workshop “The utility and necessity of a sustainable sector strategy”. The…
Sustainability University’s annual survey among various sustainability managers in the Netherlands shows that no progress has been made on embedding…
