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SDG Scan

Where do you start if you want to implement sustainability in organisations?

Organisations that wish to become more sustainable but do not know how to go about it can use the SDG Scan to gain insight into how they can implement sustainable changes. SBE students are on hand to provide advice and assistance. 

As part of our Sustainable spearhead, all study programmes at VU Amsterdam need to pay due consideration to the issue of sustainability. This goes for lessons, projects and research, and is already in evidence in the many activities taken up by different faculties and units. One such unit is the Sustainability Leadership Hub led by Dr Edina Doci. With her lectures, presentations and unstoppable energy and drive, Doci draws students’ attention to the opportunities and challenges of sustainability and helps them gain hands-on experience both within and beyond university walls. After all: students are the leaders of the future. 

Edina Doci is the founder of the SDG Scan, a tool that allows companies to chart sustainability within their organisation and identify opportunities and threats. The SDG Scan originated from a partnership between the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and the Sustainability Leadership Hub aiming to make both business education and companies more sustainable and socially responsible. Completing the SDG Scan requires close collaboration over a number of weeks between students and participating companies. This allows students to develop skills such as:

  • interpreting sustainability in the complex context in which companies operate
  • contributing to effective consensus-building processes in complex settings
  • building sustainable, trusting relationships with different stakeholders
  • developing a sustainability vision for an organisation
  • aligning organisational goals with societal goals
  • developing a business case for sustainability
  • mediating between potentially conflicting values and interests and facilitating stakeholder dialogue. 

All in all, students acquire a wide range of skills throughout this process that can greatly benefit them in their later careers.

The SDG Scan is an initiative of the VU Sustainability Leadership Hub and the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and is carried out by SBE students. 

This project is linked to the following SDG's:

  • SDG 3: Good health and wellbeing
  • SDG 4: Quality education
  • SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals. 

SDG Scan

Organisations that wish to become more sustainable but do not know how to go about it can use the SDG Scan to gain insight into how they can make sustainable changes. SBE students are on hand to provide advice and assistance. Read more about the SDG Scan in the extended stories of Dr Edina Doci, Vali Bernuzzi and Artemisz Severinghaus.

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Read the stories of Dr Edina Doci, Vali Beruzzi and Artemisz Severinghaus

Contact

Would you like to get in touch with the initiators?

e.doci@vu.nl

v.bernuzzi@student.vu.nl