Sustainable Business for Societal Challenges University of Florence

Overview

The Degree employs innovative forms of teaching, with the adoption of interactive and experimental learning methods by involving students in a number of applications, laboratories and internships, and teaching the most recent technological tools of ICT.

The Degree has a strong European and international character, and is aimed at providing students with theoretical and managerial skills in order to successfully manage social innovation and spur social entrepreneurship, which is aimed at achieving a positive social impact in the external society, as well as a better inclusion of all agents with a particular attention to vulnerable groups (i.e., people with disabilities, migrants, individuals with gender identities, the elderly). The program is also aimed at helping students understand how manage the territory and the necessary resources to improve the well-being of the communities.

The Sustainable Business for Societal Challenges degree from University of Florence is characterized by high level of interdisciplinarity, ranging from business, management, chemistry and neuroscience. This allows offer to students a multifaceted overview of a complex phenomenon such as sustainability.  

The Degree has been designed with the involvement and support of the various social partners, including the most dynamic organizations in the field of research, innovation and social impact.

Career

In line with the professional profiles identified above, some potential employment opportunities involve the following:

• innovative start-ups with a social impact, with particular reference to those operating in the well-being sector;
• large companies aimed at improving sustainability and the social impact, capable of implementing social and environmental programs, as well as policies for inclusion;
• organizations of the Third Sector, as well as in national and international institutions. and supranational public Government Bodies.