•   CHARLO – Change Agents for Regional and Local Organisations SER035AS2AE-3002 06.04.2025-12.04.2025  5   (BLENDED) +-
    Learning objectives
    You learn to use Circular Business Canva for community development purposes and needs. You will learn to use other tools and practices for developing sustainable actions in cooperation with the business community.
    Spring 2024, the developed community will be in Estonia.
    Starting level and linkage with other courses
    No prerequisites.

    This is a Nordplus funded project course. Haaga-Helia has 5 (five) student places on this course. Students are asked to send a motivation letter to liisa.wallenius@haaga-helia.fi as they enroll to the course. Then the intensive course participants will be selected.
    Contents
    • Sustainability and circular economy – perspectives, participant country examples, host country and commissioner insights
    • Digital Dasboard for KPI’s
    • Tools for human resources in circularity
    • Nature and circularity
    • Hands on development work with Circular Business Canva for business community development
    • Work in international teams and learning to work in multi-cultural and -disciplinary teams, documentation and sharing experiences (diary and
    social media posts).
    Further information
    Pre-course assignments: Circular economy related pre-task to get acquainted with the commissioner and to benchmark the industry.

    Continues assessment during the intensive week based on activity, team work and task completion
    Students' performance is graded on the following scale:
    Excellent (5), Very good (4), Good (3), Satisfactory (2), Fair (1), Fail (0).
    Teaching methods and instruction

    Pre-study of circular economy as instructed prior to the intensive week.

    Intensive project activities Sunday - Friday in Maarianhamina, Åland islands (6 - 12 April)
    This is an international Baltic-Nordic Nordplus course with participants from 14 universities.
    Students work in teams on a real business challenge for a commissioner using Circular Business Canva.

    Daily briefing lectures, team work, coaching sessions, company and industry visits in the business environment in question.
    Travel and accommodation will be arranged and paid by the project.

    Learning material and recommended literature

    Circular Business Canva
    Circular Economy related materials
    Project related material on the course teams environment

    Working life connections

    Developing sustainable actions in cooperation with the business community. Spring 2025, the developed community will be in Åland island, Finland.

    Campus

    Pasila Campus

    Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

    No exam.

    Teaching language

    English

    Internationality

    Developing sustainable actions in cooperation with the business community.
    Working in international setting in multi-cultural and -disciplinary teams.
    Spring 2025, the developed community will be in Åland islands, Finland.

    Timing

    06.04.2025 - 12.04.2025

    Learning assignments

    Pre-course assignment 1 Circular economy related pre-task to get acquainted with the commissioner and to benchmark the industry. Course Assignments 2 Intensive programme activities according to Circular Business Canvas process 3 Team learning diary blog 4 Scientific blog text or article as team work with the Haaga-Helia student group.

    Enrollment

    02.01.2025 - 04.04.2025

    Content scheduling

    Send a motivational letter to liisa.wallenius@haaga-helia.fi as you enrol and apply to participate in the intensive course. 3-5 students will be chosen from Haaga-Helia to participate. Last enrolment day 24 January 2025.

    Pre-assignment - March 2025

    Intensive programme
    6 - 12 April (Sunday - Saturday), a possiblity for the journey start on Saturday 5 April depending on the ferry schedules

    Groups
    • BLENDED
    Alternative learning methods

    no alternative completion for this project course

    Teachers

    Liisa Wallenius

    Seats

    1 - 5

    Further information

    Assessment of
    pre-assignment
    intensive week activity and project assignments
    learning blog/diary
    scientific blog or article

    Degree Programme

    TRALI Business Administration

    R&D proportion

    4.00 cr

    Virtual proportion

    0.00 cr

    Evaluation scale

    H-5