Projects/Events – Sustainable Business Management

Projects

Karume Innovation Hub (2023-2025)

The goal of the International Training Program (ITP) is to implement an innovation hub, which can act as the central point of a new business ecosystem. This ecosystem will enhance the collaboration between all innovative parties in Zanzibar, will create a multidisciplinary community for learning and research and will act as an incubator to facilitate start-ups and product development for new and sustainable (digital) products.

Inco Smart (2022-2024)

INCO_SMRT is a European funded project that will provide ICT and Business students with knowledge, competencies and skills enabling them to become the graduates the job market will more and more require. The project will focus on Transportation and Logistics (T&L) that, like most other industries, is currently confronted by an immense change concerning digitalisation and sustainability. Due to its multifaceted characteristics and problems, the solutions proposed will provide a useful toolkit for many other sectors.

Events

4/6/2023 – 8/6/2023 – Workshop on immersive storytelling @ Holon Institute of Technology in Tel Aviv

We organised a workshop of 5 days for a group of 24 students and asked them to create an immersive experience in VR to create awareness on sustainability for a Gen Alpha or Gen Z target group.

5/4/2023 – 7/4/2023 – Guest Lecturer @ Excelia Business School in La Rochelle

Guest lecture in the Global Network Week on the trends and Future of Sustainability.

8/11/2022 – 12/11/2022 – Chair Working Group Sustainability @ Businet Conference in Mainz

As Europe has launched the green competences for higher education and the CSR directive, and businesses are calling for sustainable skills in their workforce, the need for implementing sustainability in the curricula of higher education is clear. In the working group sustainability, we will address this need by bringing together experts and interested people from different institutes and find ways to collaborate so that the network can support the sustainable transition in higher education.

4/10/2022 – Key-note speaker @ InterUni2022 (online)

Key-note speech at the InterUni conference organised by WSB University in Poland: The need for teaching sustainability skills in higher education: best practices and challenges.

30/09/2022 – 8/5/2023 – Guest Lecture @ Haagse Hogeschool in The Hague

Guest lecture on the social dimension of sustainability and the trends and future of sustainability for the students of European Studies.

19/09/2022 – Lunch Talk @ Takeda Zaventem

Takeda is launching several sustainability initiatives in Belgium. One of these initiatives was the sustainable mobility week, for which I was asked to give an introduction in the value creation concept.

22/08/2022 – 30/8/2022 – Masterclass Sustainability @ Final Symposium ACTEA project in Dar Es Salaam

As a developing economy, the African countries are also looking for ways to incorporate sustainability in their daily life and business. Limited resources, experience and different other challenges arise in these countries, making it harder to think and act sustainable. On the other side, a huge opportunity lays in these countries as they have the advantage of being able to start the right way. In this masterclass, we will look into the possibilities to embed sustainability in education and business and identify the needs to make this happen.

25/04/2022 – 29/4/2022 – International week @ AP Antwerpen

The objective of the week is to develop and present innovative ideas to make the AP campus more sustainable. Interdisciplinary and multicultural teams of IT, Business and Electromechanics students are working on these ideas using the design thinking approach. Supported by teachers and experts on sustainability, the students will learn more about sustainability and ideation during this international experience.

14/03/2022 – 18/3/2022 – International week @ EPHEC Brussels

The objective of the week is to develop and present Decathlon innovative and creative concepts related to Circular Economy. For starters, you do not need to know what Circular Economy concepts are. Thanks to experts and visit of CE companies within Brussels area, you will be able to develop, innovate and co-create great ideas that could be implemented into Decathlon business.

10/03/2022 – Best Practice Workshop – Businet Conference – Vilamoura Portugal

Our world is changing fast. Global events are occurring more often and have a bigger impact on societies and economies than ever before. If we want future business leaders to be prepared for these changes and take proactive decisions to limit further impact on society and environment, we should teach them about sustainable business management and ask them to reflect critically on their own impact and the possible solutions for the future. In this workshop, we will share our approach of teaching sustainability to bachelor students, not only to business students but to students of all backgrounds. We will share some best practices on the different working methods that can be used and what topics are necessary to provide students with a full understanding of sustainability. We also invite you to share how you are dealing with this topic in your institution today so that we can take home some additional ideas to reach even more students and improve our methods as well.

17/11/2021 – Expert Talk – OSS Project Meeting – Granada Spain

The OSS (One Stop Shop) – project is building an ecosystem for young entrepreneurs across Europe. The different partners share good practices about finance, governance, coaching,… I was asked to give an introduction into sustainable business management as this is a best practice important to any entrepreneur but when it can be integrated from the start, it will also be part of the mission and vision of a new company.

9/11/2021 – Introduction Serge De Gheldere – Studium Generale – Antwerp Belgium

How placing sustainability at the core of your company’s business strategy will improve financial performance and risk management, foster innovation and corporate responsibility, strengthen your brand and build customer loyalty. I was asked to do an introduction for the speaker of the evening.

26/11/2020 – Webinar – Duurzaam Samenwerken

Duurzaam Samenwerken is a group of entrepreneurs who want to change the way we do business by creating as much societal value as they can in their interactions with customers, suppliers and competitors. When my book was launched, I was asked to address the network and give a talk about value creation in business.