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The master programme WorkS - Lifelong Learning, Sustainability and Work, focuses on social sustainability perspectives and strategies for the shaping of a socially just and socially sustainable working life. The master programme addresses the shared responsibility among different parties involved in the relation between and within education and the world of work for the common creation of social sustainability, in an increasingly challenged and continuously changing society.

The working life of today is undergoing several transformations, provoked by an increasingly challenged, digitalized, and globalized society. Societal changes and various crises, new ways of organizing and working, shifting ways of communicating, practicing, and regulating the labour market and workplaces, challenges both people, leaders, managers, and different career supportive professions with the mission of managing and supporting people’s navigation in the world of work. Changes forces forward new forms of leadership, new governing strategies, and new ways of supporting people in their career navigation and continuous lifelong learning. The world of work is inhabited by different stakeholders, all playing important roles in the arrangement of education, and work, and the bridges in between them, and how the future development of a sustainable working life can be shaped.

The challenges in the working life sector, and how these influence the educational sector, peoples’ work and career paths, as well as the bridging professional practices in between these sectors, need to be scrutinized and studied from a sustainability aspect, with specific focus on social sustainability, to create future-oriented learning, socially sustainable and socially just and decent working life conditions, and shape sustainable leadership that matters for coming generations.

The WorkS programme responds to societal, organizational, institutional, and individual needs of critical and practical thinking, and awareness creation regarding the shared responsibilities among parties involved in education and the world of work. Involved parties and their specific roles and functions, are explored in relation to the shared challenges and responsibilities for how the creation of a sustainable working life can be designed.

The WorkS programme is designed to develop various professionals in various positions in the world of work, to deepen their understanding of challenges, possibilities and potential strategies to strengthen social sustainability in the world of work. The programme deepens their understanding of the role of learning in different contexts. In the programme, students will acquire the necessary critical thinking skills to inform policy, implement sustainable strategies into various professional contexts.