Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship training
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Student course
Designing and managing sustainable business models
Training Programme for Students
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This training programme provides students with a comprehensive introduction to sustainable business models, green entrepreneurship, and sustainability-driven decision-making.
Through a combination of conceptual foundations, practical tools, regulatory perspectives, and marketing approaches, students gain a holistic understanding of how businesses can create economic value while addressing environmental and social challenges.
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Sustainable business models: conceptual foundations and strategic design (in 2 parts)
Delivered by: University of Alicante (Spain)
Trainer: Javier Martínez Falcó and Eduardo Sánchez Garcí
Date:
Part 1: 07/05/2026 – Time: 11:00 to 13:30 (link given upon registration)
Part 2: 08/05/2026 – Time: 11:00 to 13:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 5 contact hours and 7,5 self-study hours
This training offers university students a dynamic and accessible introduction to the world of sustainable business models. With a clear and engaging approach, participants will explore how businesses can generate economic value while addressing social and environmental challenges. The program introduces key sustainability concepts, such as the triple bottom line and circular economy, and explains how these ideas can shape modern business strategy.
From vision to value: building sustainable business models
Delivered by: Saarland University (Germany)
Trainer: Milena Valeva
Date: 27/04/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 14:00 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 5 contact hours and 7,5 self-study hours
This training explores general ideas behind sustainable and future oriented business models. Through a look at broad concepts for linking vision, strategy, and long term value creation, it touches on different sustainability approaches and how they can influence business thinking.
Steering sustainable behaviour: regulation and self-regulation approaches
Delivered by: University of Primorska (Slovenia)
Trainer: Emil Juvan
Date: 13/04/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 14:00 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 5 contact hours and 7,5 self-study hours
The course explores how sustainable behaviour can be steered through regulation and self-regulation, with services treated as a practical application context rather than an end in itself. It introduces students to the logic, scope, and limitations of different approaches used to influence the behaviour of service providers and consumers.
Marketing of green startups and sustainable business models (in 2 parts)
Delivered by: Mariupol State University (Ukraine)
Trainer: Inna Arakelova
Date:
Part 1: 15/04/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 11:30 (link given upon registration)
Part 2: 22/04/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 11:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 5 contact hours and 7,5 self-study hours
The course focuses on marketing strategies for green start-ups operating in the context of sustainability, circular economy, and environmental and social challenges. It combines start-up marketing tools with sustainable business model thinking and impact-oriented entrepreneurship.
Academic staff
Sustainable, innovative, and digital futures in academia
Training programme for academic staff
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This integrated training programme is designed for academic staff who wish to strengthen their capacities in sustainability, patents and trademarks, and innovation performance within higher education.
The programme combines strategic perspectives on sustainable business models, intellectual property, innovation measurement, and digital innovation for sustainability.
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Strategic design of sustainable business models: theory, research and pedagogical integration
Delivered by: University of Alicante (Spain)
Trainer: Javier Martínez Falcó
Date: 23/03/2026 – Time: 11:00 to 13:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 2,5 contact hours
This training program is tailored to academic staff who wish to deepen their understanding of sustainable business models from both a theoretical and applied perspective. The course will explore the main conceptual frameworks underlying sustainable value creation, including the triple bottom line, circular economy principles, and business model innovation in sustainability-oriented firms.
Protecting innovations: patents, trademarks and copyrights
Delivered by: Saarland University (Germany)
Trainer: Frank Döbrich
Date: 31/03/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 11:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 2,5 contact hours
This training provides a general introduction to why intellectual property matters in innovation. It will offer an overview of the main forms of protection such as patents, trademarks, and related rights. Morover, it will touch on the differences between protecting ideas, products, and brand elements.
Measuring innovation performance in the work of university academic staff
Delivered by: University of Primorska (Slovenia)
Trainer: Simona Kustec and Jana Hojnik
Date: 12/03/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 11:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 2,5 contact hours
This course aims to equip academic staff with conceptual frameworks, practical tools, and analytical skills to understand, assess, and communicate innovation performance at individual, departmental, and institutional levels.
Digital innovation for sustainable business models
Delivered by: Mariupol State University (Ukraine)
Trainer: Valeriia Podunai
Date: 24/03/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 11:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 2,5 contact hours
This course delves into the concept of “double transition”. By introducing the idea of digital support for circular business models, it touches topics such as the environmental sustainability of digital infrastructure (Green IT) and cybersecurity for sustainable business.
Institutional innovation and sustainability skills
Training programme for non-academic staff
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This integrated training programme is designed for non-academic university staff who play a key role in supporting innovation, sustainability, and institutional performance.
The programme provides practical knowledge and tools related to sustainable business models, innovation performance measurement, and digital innovation for sustainability. It focuses on how administrative, managerial, and support staff can actively contribute to institutional impact, operational efficiency, and strategic development.
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Sustainable business models: foundations and applications for institutional impact
Delivered by: University of Alicante (Spain)
Trainer: Javier Martínez Falcó
Date: 30/03/2026 – Time: 11:00 to 13:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 2,5 contact hours
This training program is designed to empower non-academic university staff with foundational knowledge and practical tools to contribute to the institution’s sustainability goals through their everyday work. It introduces the principles of sustainable business models in an accessible and practical manner, with special emphasis on how sustainability can be embedded into operational, administrative, and service-related processes.
Digital workflows at higher education institutions
Delivered by: Saarland University (Germany)
Trainer: Scheer School of Digital Sciences
Date: 24/03/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 11:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 2,5 contact hours
This course provides a general introduction to digital workflows and their role in modern higher education institutions. It offers an overview of typical academic and administrative areas where digitalization can improve processes. Moreover, it touches on common challenges in paper-based systems and the value of clearer, more streamlined procedures.
Measuring innovation performance in the work of university academic staff
Delivered by: University of Primorska (Slovenia)
Trainer: Simona Kustec and Jana Hojnik
Date: 19/03/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 11:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 2,5 contact hours
This course aims to equip non-academic staff with conceptual frameworks, practical tools, and analytical skills to understand why and how to carry out work related to measuring innovation performance at individual, departmental, and institutional levels.
Digital strategies for sustainable business
Delivered by: Mariupol State University (Ukraine)
Trainer: Valeriia Podunai
Date: 31/03/2026 – Time: 9:00 to 11:30 (link given upon registration)
Overall duration: 2,5 contact hours
In this training, participants will be able to comprehensively assess the role of digital transformation in achieving sustainable development goals, understanding the mechanisms for implementing circular models and the possibilities of AI optimization for business sustainability.