Course unit

Sustainable development and corporate social responsibility

Last updated: 26/02/2024

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Course Director(s):

MONGO Michelle

General Description:

The module aims to sensitize and mobilize students to sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. In-depth study enables them to touch on the concrete aspects of these issues. Through the variety of situations and fields, they will be led to ask themselves different questions related to the themes of "resilience and transition", "corporate social responsibility", "sustainable innovation", "engineering ethics (individual and collective)", "digital transition" and "renewable energies" in the South. These themes will be studied and put into perspective with regard to the issues related to climate change. Finally, training in the HandiManager label certified by AFNOR will also be offered.

Six thematic workshops make up the UP Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility. The student will have to choose a workshop among the 6 presented below plus a training course centered around the "Handimanager" Label

• Resilience and transition . Natacha Gondran, Eric Piatyszek Corporate
• Social Responsibility in SMEs and ETIs: Sandrine Berger-Douce
• Responsible innovation for SD: technology transfer issues: Michelle Mongo
• Ethics of the engineer : Nadine Dubruc
• Green IT and digital transition: Julien de Benedittis
• HandiManager label training : Hélène Pangot
• Green economy of energy projects in Southern countries Flavian TCHAPGA 
• Social economy Pierre Gilles Gayet

Key words:

Sustainable development Corporate social responsibility Ethics Ecological transition Climate change Territorial resilience Computer science and society Responsible innovation Eco-innovation Technology transfer Development topics.

Number of teaching hours

27

Fields of study

Economics, Management, Human and Social Sciences Urban planning, Environment

Teaching language

French

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the unit, the student will be capable of:	Classification level	Priority
The essential elements of the general problem of sustainable development	1. Knowledge	Essential
How social responsibility fits into different contexts in different ways	2. Understand	Essential
Complex questions according to a systemic approach that breaks with their practice of segmented approaches (from their preparatory class curriculum)	5. Summarise	Essential
To know notions on the application in each of the domains	4. Analyse	Essential

Learning assessment methods

Percentage ratio of individual assessment			Percentage ratio of group assessment
Written exam:		%	Project submission:		%
Individual oral exam:		%	Group presentation:	20	%
Individual presentation:		%	Group practical exercise:		%
Individual practical exercise:		%	Group report:	20	%
Individual report:	60	%
Other(s): %

Programme and content

Type of teaching activity	Content, sequencing and organisation
Workshop	The format of the courses is left to the discretion of the instructors. They can use all the pedagogical techniques that they deem most relevant (lectures, tutorials, serious games, MOOC, SPOC, etc.). Course of 7 modules in parallel + 1 training course (Label Handi manager)