Courses

This on-campus, short-intensive programme (March–May 2026, Ghent, Belgium) prepares you to become a sustainability coordinator or advisor within an organisation. You will develop solid expertise in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and immediately apply this knowledge to a real business case.

The programme offers a strong theoretical foundation combined with highly practical skills for implementing, managing and reporting on sustainability in organisations. It is internationally oriented, certified by UNITAR (the training centre of the United Nations), and fully aligned with the European Sustainability Competence Framework.

Master the essentials of crisis management. Learn to identify, prevent, and control crisis situations while understanding key phases, preparedness strategies, and risk evaluation. Gain the skills to advise organisations on contingency planning and damage control.

CRISIS is any situation, event or activity that can lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, community or entire society. It is mostly unpredictable; not always unexpected, but it always has a potentially negative result.

Students will gain knowledge about the basic concepts of waste management and discuss basic hierarchy (priority) in waste treatment. They are required to describe waste types generated in the various spheres of production and processing functions. Furthermore, they learn how to define chemical, physical and physico-chemical waste treatment processes and to describe wast processing technology, focusing on analytic methods.

This course offers an introduction to geoinformation technologies (GIT) and their application in the representation, analysis, and interpretation of the real world. It addresses core concepts shared across all GIT domains, including spatial and temporal data, positioning methods, geographic features, and data modelling. Emphasis is placed on understanding space and time, methods for determining position in both dimensions, and the descriptive components of geospatial features.

The course provides an in-depth overview of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and introduces students to key related technologies such as GIS, DPZ, GPS, DMR, MGIT, GeoWeb, Lidar. Additional topics include spatial modelling of real-world phenomena, the structure and use of geodata, metadata principles, and fundamental methods of geodata acquisition.

Resource efficiency, climate compatibility, and resilience are concepts that resonate with SDG 11, “Sustainable Cities and Communities,” SDG 6, “Clean Water and Sanitation,” and SDG 7, “Affordable and Clean Energy.”

The boundaries of traditional engineering disciplines must be overcome and integrated. Furthermore, interdisciplinary solutions must be developed to address social, ecological, and economic challenges of urban development.

Sustainability as a guiding principle is becoming increasingly important in business, technology, ecology, and society. Numerous criteria and guidelines provide companies and institutions with an initial point of reference on the path to designing sustainable processes.

But how can the transformation to a sustainable company/institution be achieved? What steps does my company need to take on the path to sustainable production? And how can I holistically integrate sustainability into my working environment?