Seminar on Strategies to foster an impactful sustainability transition - VTT, Finland & Maastricht University

Lectures & Seminars

VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and Maastricht University are jointly organising a seminar on Strategies to foster an impactful sustainability transition that will be held online. The seminar consists of three parts, first focusing on a sustainable business models (SBMs) framework application to forerunner companies, then presenting what the results of experiments tell us, and finally discussing the creation of impact through actions and the challenges the sustainable transition faces in terms of assessment.

Agenda

12.30 Opening of the seminar, Nancy Bocken

12.40 The anatomy of sustainable business models (SBMs), Annu Markkula

13.00 Consumer sustainability requirements towards companies (Vehmas & Bocken, 2023) and presentation of a case study, Nancy Bocken

• The action and impact in sustainability transition, Vafa Järnefelt and Ankita Das

• Under which conditions circularity makes sense? Learnings from two case companies in the forest industry and consumer electronics, Vafa Järnefelt
• How do companies measure impact of their sustainable business models?, And presentation of a tool on the assessment of rebound effects, Ankita Das

14.00 Closing of the seminar, Nancy Bocken

Register to join the seminar here!