Sustainability and Responsible Ownership

The course is tailor-made for business owners, professionals and practitioners, working in or with private businesses and family companies, as well as for next-generation business leaders and successors.

This course builds on the research excellence and practical relevance of the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership, bridging the core competences of JIBS faculty on sustainability and ownership. The participants will have a unique opportunity for applying the most relevant theoretical concepts to examples, cases and experiences from private businesses engaged in sustainable practices.

Through the learning platform you’ll get access to recorded lectures, case studies and other study material. Communication takes place largely through discussion forums and e-meetings. This flexible form means that within each course section you can, to a large extent, choose the time and place for your studies, while regular deadlines distribute the studies evenly over the course.

• The applicant has a Bachelor ́s degree and has an extensive leadership experience in a private business.
• Other applicant with a Bachelor ́s degree or an extensive business experience might be accepted to the course based on clear motivations for participating to a Sustainability and Responsible Ownership course.
• English proficiency is required (level 6/B or equivalent).

We request all candidates to provide us with an application letter (min 300, max 500 words) written in English. This letter clearly describes the motivations for taking a course on Sustainability and Responsible Ownership. In particular, the application letter contains:

• your personal and professional reasons for taking the Sustainability and Responsible Ownership course.
• description of your leadership experience in a private business (e.g. as owner, member of the board, manager, or member of a family business).
  

The application letter should be submitted as a PDF.

In order to apply, you need to upload the following documents:

1. Application letter
2. Education certificate: Bachelor's or Master's diploma and transcript
3. Work experience certificate: provided by the employer stating the title, role, employment start and end dates, details about years of leadership experience.
4. English proficiency: level 6/B or equivalent (can be assessed through a phone interview)
5. Curriculum vitae
   
6. Passport/id card

Please notice: the application letter (min 300, max 500 words) is written in English. This letter clearly describes the motivations for taking a family business course:

• your personal and professional reasons for taking the Sustainability and Responsible Ownership course.
• description of your leadership experience in a private business (e.g. as owner, member of the board, manager, or member of a family business).
  
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If you need any clarification regarding the content of the course, you can contact Massimo.Bau@ju.se. If you need support in the application process, please refer to Adam.Al-Azzawi@ju.se.

Thanks to the generous support of the Swedish Knowledge Foundation (KK-stiftelsen), the first edition of the course is FREE for all admitted participants.

An application fee of 900 SEK applies to citizens outside the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland. For more information regarding who is required to pay fees, please read here.

Online seminars and meetings are organized every second Friday. Times are expressed as CET (Stockholm time).

In addition to the registration of 15 ECTS credits at master’s level, you will receive a certificate in "Sustainability and Responsible Ownership", issued by Jönköping International Business School, after completion of the course.

Level of Education: Master
Course code/Ladok code: JSOR22
The course is conducted at: Jönköping International Business School