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University of Jyväskylä
School of Business and Economics

P.O. Box 35 (MaE)
Jyväskylä, Central Finland 40014
Finland

In the school's own words...

School of Business and Economics at the University of Jyväskylä creates and disseminates expertise based on scientific research for management, entrepreneurship and economic decision making needs, maintaining strong links to the surrounding community by actively promoting our latest research results and professional expertise. School of Business and Economics at the University of Jyväskylä was the first University in the whole of Scandinavia offering a full master's and doctoral programme in Corporate Environmental Management since 1995. Environmental and/or social issues are an important part integrated in the strategic focus areas of the School of Business and Economics. The focus areas of the disciplines include: corporate environmental management; renewable energy; ethics in accounting; social responsibility and family business in entrepreneurship; and labour and regional economics. The approaches for addressing three dimensions of sustainability in the curriculum of the School of Business and Economics have been diverse: 1) As the separate unit leading the way towards sustainable management, there is a specialized master's and doctoral programme, Corporate Environmental Management, which is training specialists for environmental management positions; 2) "Business, Society and the Environment" course, which is open to all business students, as well as to the students from other faculties, offers basic knowledge about sustainability issues to future business managers; and 3) Environmental and social issues have been integrated into several courses in all the disciplines of the school to ensure that sustainability issues are not just a specialty area of a small expert group. Since the launch of the Corporate Environmental Management programme there has been strong co-operation with the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University. This co-operation continues to find more profound ways. In January 2003, the University of Jyväskylä started a new interdisciplinary master's programme in the area of renewable energy. School of Business and Economics is one of the organizers of this new programme. Besides coursework, large part of faculty research is dedicated to environmental and/or social issues.

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