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A responsible organization operates as sustainably as possible and considers its stakeholders and social role more broadly. The focus is on building long-term success and maintaining sustainable competitiveness, not on quick wins.
See programs Solutions for organizationsWhat does responsibility mean in practice in your work or your organization? Do you know the sustainability principles for different operations and how to develop processes according to them? Sustainability in business is the glue that holds the pieces of society and the business world together. Responsible business practices reflect positively on your company's reputation and success.
We help you to build socially, ecologically, and economically sustainable businesses. In our programs, you will learn how sustainable and responsible operations are integrated into the business strategy. You will open your eyes to new possibilities and learn to anticipate risks. Leading experts from Aalto University and other top universities in the discipline and some of the business world's key companies are at our disposal during your learning journey. Our first environmental training program was organized in 2004, and ever since, we have been developing our programs to meet the high demands of the changing business environment and to answer current issues of responsibility.
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In this webinar recording, our top speakers, Research Group Leader İdil Gaziulusoy and Futurist and Design Lead Duncan Brown will share their views on sustainability innovation and transformative journeys of exploration.
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April – May 2024
The program offers experts and managers responsible for environmental and quality issues a comprehensive introduction to corporate sustainability. You will get insights into sustainability opportunities, risks, and responsibilities, as well as tools to value and assess them. The program is organized by Aalto EE in Singapore.
April – May 2024
English
Live online
Live online
SGD 2,500 (approx. € 1,800)
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Climate, Health and Cities training program is a future-oriented, clear, factual, and optimistic program focusing on climate change and its relationship to human activities, the built environment, and health.
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English
Live online
Live Online
€ 2,150 (+ VAT)
May 10–18, 2024
In the program, you will seek views on digital responsibility and look at digitalization as a phenomenon from a sustainability perspective. The program is organized by Aalto EE in Singapore.
May 10–18, 2024
3 days
English
Live online
Live online
SGD 2,500 (approx. € 1,800)
August 26 – September 22, 2024
The program helps to understand what environmental and social sustainability means in the context of a supply chain, and how various approaches and tools can be applied in one’s own organization and supply chain. The program is organized by Aalto EE in Singapore.
August 26 – September 22, 2024
English
Live online
Live online
SGD 2,500 (approx. € 1,800)
October 28, November 22-24, 2024
This short program enables you to understand materiality in sustainability reporting, and you will become familiar with the common voluntary standards and frameworks in sustainability reporting. You will also learn the quality principles of sustainability reporting and the key elements to assurance of sustainability reports. The program is organized by Aalto EE in Singapore.
October 28, November 22-24, 2024
English
Live online
Live online
SGD 2,780 (approx. € 1,900)
March 13 – September 25, 2025
The program will enable you to turn responsible business into a strategic tool for improving your company's competitive edge Among other issues, you will learn about the economic, social and environmental responsibility of companies, risk management and insurance, and the measurement and reporting of corporate responsibility. The program is held in Finnish.
March 13 – September 25, 2025
Six modules (11 days) + online course
Finnish
Onsite
Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland and online
€ 9,200 (+ VAT) € 9,600 (+ VAT) € 9,600 (+ VAT)
Early Bird fee valid until November 30, 2024
March 13–14, 2025
This module presents the organizational aspects of responsible business and positions your own organization’s social responsibility on a global scale, while assessing the impact of sustainable development challenges on your firm. You will learn how to manage corporate responsibility on a methodical basis and use it as a strategic tool to increase competitiveness. The program is held in Finnish.
March 13–14, 2025
2 days
Finnish
Hybrid
Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland or Live online
€ 2,100 (+ VAT)
March 26–28, 2025
The program program provides corporate executives and investment and finance industry professionals with a comprehensive overview of what a person making investment decisions should know about sustainability.
March 26–28, 2025
Finnish
Onsite
Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
€ 3,590 (+ VAT) € 3,950 (+ VAT) € 3,950 (+ VAT)
Early Bird fee valid until December 31, 2024
April 14–15, 2025
The program helps you understand what environmental and social responsibility in the supply chain mean and how they can be applied in your organization. The program is held in Finnish.
April 14–15, 2025
2 days
Finnish
Hybrid
Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland or Live online
€ 2,100 (+VAT)
May, 26 - October, 30, 2025
Have you considered how environmental regulations impact your clean transition projects? This course provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental approval processes, national and EU regulations, and stakeholder responsibilities. Training is funded by SECLE and it’s free for participants.
May, 26 - October, 30, 2025
Finnish
Live online
live online
0 €
Program starts September 2, 2025
How do EU and national regulations shape business strategies in the clean transition? This course offers an in-depth understanding of regulatory frameworks, covering ESG reporting, emissions trading, taxation, and sustainability commitments. Through expert lectures and hands-on project work participants will learn to integrate regulatory changes into business operations. Training is funded by SECLE and it’s free for participants.
Program starts September 2, 2025
Finnish
Live online
live online
0 €
May 7 - June 12, 2025
Do you want to assure you are prepared to make informed investment decisions in the clean transition? This course covers energy future scenarios, technology cost structures, and regulatory frameworks, helping participants assess the financial and sustainability aspects of clean energy investments. Training is funded by SECLE and it’s free for participants.
May 7 - June 12, 2025
Finnish
Live online
live online
0 €
April, 23 - June 18, 2025
Do you want to learn more about how stakeholder engagement can drive success in clean transition projects? This course explores corporate responsibility, stakeholder mapping, and interaction methods to enhance collaboration and societal acceptance. Participants will gain hands-on experience with strategic communication tools and conflict management techniques. Training is funded by SECLE and it’s free for participants.
April, 23 - June 18, 2025
Finnish
Live online
live online
0 €
Dates will be announced soon
Do you know how to secure national or international funding for clean transition projects? This course provides a deep dive into different financing options, funding application processes, and collaboration with international financiers. Participants will learn to integrate ESG criteria into financing strategies and navigate funding opportunities at national and EU levels. Training is funded by SECLE and it’s free for participants.
Dates will be announced soon
Finnish
Live online
live online
0 €
May 5–6, 2024
In this program, you will learn about the opportunities that environmental accounting offers companies: corporate responsibility metrics, reporting, and calculation. The program is held in Finnish.
May 5–6, 2024
2 days
Finnish
Hybrid
Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland or Live online
€ 2,100 (+ VAT)
June 16–17, 2025
In this program, you will examine digitalization as a global and social phenomenon from the perspective of responsibility. The program is held in Finnish.
June 16–17, 2025
2 days
Finnish
Hybrid
Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland or Live online
€ 2,100 (+ VAT)
August 25–26, 2025
The program gives you versatile perspectives on communication as part of responsible business. You will learn to analyze the starting points of the credibility of responsibility communication and evaluate your organization and its activities as a builder of a sustainable society.
August 25–26, 2025
2 days
Finnish
Hybrid
Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland or Live online
€ 2,100(+ VAT)
September 2025 - May 2026
The program contributes to the design of a circular economy by developing new designs and methodologies, improving resource efficiency, re-covering critical raw materials from current levels, and enhancing process design methodologies towards Zero Liquid Discharge of effluents and solid wastes.
September 2025 - May 2026
6-12 ECTS
English
Live online, Hybrid
Live Online
€ 2,600 (+ VAT)
October 6–8, 2025
Designed for senior executives and managers either directly or indirectly responsible for strategic decisions, the program comprehensively introduces you to sustainability strategy development and implementation within the business. It focuses on strengthening the link between sustainability and business strategy within the business environment.
October 6–8, 2025
3 days
English
Onsite
Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
€ 4,350 (+ VAT) € 4,650 (+ VAT) € 4,650 (+ VAT)
Early Bird fee valid until April 30, 2025
November 17 – December 8, 2025
The program helps executives, business strategists, and risk managers to understand the new geoeconomic power politics, including the transforming relationship between state and market and between economics and security policy, and offer cutting-edge analytical tools, knowledge, and practical experience that will help companies with business development and risk management in the new geoeconomic world.
November 17 – December 8, 2025
3 days
English
Onsite
Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
€ 4,180 (+ VAT) € 4,650 (+ VAT) € 4,650 (+ VAT)
Early Bird fee valid until June 30, 2025
January – February 2026
This upskilling program concentrates on low-temperature thermodynamics, focusing on water solution chemistry and water footprint, as well as high-temperature thermodynamics in pyrometallurgy and inorganic process chemistry. Throughout the program, participants will be immersed in cutting-edge insights sourced from both academic research and industrial expertise.
January – February 2026
Estimated study time: 54 hours, equivalent to 2 ECTS
English
Live online
Live Online
€ 950 (+ VAT)
March 2026
The learning objectives are to reduce the overall life-cycle climate and environmental footprint of the products, to achieve longer product lifetimes via more durable and reparable products, to increase circular material use rate, to reduce waste, and to achieve higher recycling rates. Hence, consumers, the environment, and the climate will benefit from more durable, reusable, repairable, recyclable, and energy-efficient products.
March 2026
Estimated workload is 27 hours, equivalent to 1 ECTS
English
Live online
Live Online
€ 550 (+VAT) € 650 (+ VAT) € 650 (+ VAT)
Early Bird fee valid until December 31, 2024
By appointment, on selected date.
The APV ESG exam helps maintain up-to-date expertise in the investment services sector. The exam is available in Finnish. Please note that the exam web page is also in Finnish.
By appointment, on selected date.
Finnish
Onsite
Proctored exam on the DigiExam platform.
€ 85 (+VAT)
September - November/December 2025
The process industry covers energy-intensive sectors like chemicals, metallurgy, steel, minerals, cement, ceramics, engineering, pulp and paper, refining, and water. The process industry also has a key role in recycling because the same chemical and metallurgical processes and infrastructure, which have been developed for the primary ores and raw materials, may also be utilized to recycle waste materials from the consumption of the manufacturing industry products.
September - November/December 2025
Estimated study time: 81 hours, equivalent to 3 ECTS
English
Live online
Live Online
€ 1,350 (+ VAT)
Agreed together with the customer
This organization-specific Masterclass provides executive teams and boards with a common understanding of the significance of sustainability for the company's business, both from the perspectives of productivity and impact. After the training day, the company's top management will be better equipped to lead its sustainability initiatives and comprehend its importance for its short-term and long-term success.
Agreed together with the customer
1 day
Finnish, English
Onsite
Customer's premises / Agreed together with the customer
€ 13,500 (+ VAT)
The cornerstone of sustainable business is high-quality management and strong competence. At Aalto EE, we believe in lifewide learning and help you and your organization build socially, ecologically, and economically sustainable business with our impactful educational solutions. We offer top experts and faculty, an impressive network, and diverse methods to support your business and personal professional growth.
Aalto EE's coaching is an impactful way to renew organizations and competencies, ensure strategy implementation, and build a new competitive advantage. Together with our clients, we design and implement effective customized training solutions where all aspects of content, coaches, learning methods, and the customer experience are always tailored to the customer's needs.
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This course offers a comprehensive overview of battery technology, equipping you with the knowledge to contribute to sustainable energy solutions. By exploring various aspects of batteries, including raw materials and recycling technologies, you’ll gain valuable insights into the processes that power our world.
Fee: € 300 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 54 hours
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This self-paced online course covers basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable development, bioeconomy, and circular economy. Considering a value chain perspective, from the source of material all the way to the end-of-life management of the final product.
Fee: € 300 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
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During this self-paced online course, participants will learn about climate change and its impact on the built environment and human health. This forward-thinking course encourages learners to not only understand the challenges we are facing but also to reflect on how we can reduce negative climate impacts and support the well-being of all life on this planet. Course language: English
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
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This online course on information security data protection will present the events that took place in the Nordic countries at the end of 2023 and offer practical tips on how to operate in the online world. The course covers topics such as what to do in the event of a cyber-attack, how a large-scale phishing attack unfolds, and who in the company is ultimately responsible for cybersecurity issues.
Fee: € 100 (+ VAT)
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The field of foresight - our ability to predict or anticipate future events, trends, and developments - is changing. Traditional methods of observing industry and consumer behaviour patterns no longer work, as the mechanisms producing the patterns are becoming unpredictable due to climate heating. Course language: English
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
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Introduction to Wood Material is a set of two online courses, the first focusing on wood structure and anatomy, and the second focusing on wood properties.
Fee: € 250 (+ VAT)
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This course presents the structure of wood material, including macroscopic features such as earlywood, latewood, heartwood, sapwood, and knots. Additionally, wood formation and the basic cell types are presented, as well as the main structural constituents of wood: lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose.
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This course links the basic anatomical features of wood, such as grain orientation and knots, to its properties relevant in the built environment.
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Sustainability Toolbox for Building Designers equips you with the tools needed to analyze and reduce the carbon footprint throughout a building’s lifecycle. The program helps you lead the change towards carbon-neutral construction and navigate the changing regulatory requirements in the European Union.
Fee: € 500-800 (+VAT)
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This online course is a practical presentation on whistleblowing and the basics of the Whistleblower Protection Act. The course helps you understand which violations are involved in reporting abuses, which are internal, and which are centralized reporting channels. The course explains the prerequisites for whistleblower protection and the sanctions that may result from violating the regulations.
Fee: € 100 (+ VAT) / € 900 (+ VAT)
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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a strategic tool that enables companies to improve their competitiveness and develop their businesses. The key issue is understanding what CSR means and how to demonstrate it. Although compliance with laws and international standards is the starting point in this respect, stakeholders increasingly require that companies fulfill their responsibilities as extensively as possible.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is also essential from society's point of view. Companies play a key role in meeting global economic and social challenges and solving environmental problems. For example, investing in new, environmentally- friendly technologies is the best way to mitigate and adapt to climate change and scarcity of resources and promote the circular economy. In the best-case scenario, CSR is directly reflected in people's everyday lives and the state of the environment.
Responsible values make companies reliable and desirable partners. Making choices that build a sustainable future is vital to businesses and society. The earlier the stage at which a business is built sustainably, the more stable its future will appear.
CSR is integral to the business competencies of a successful company. A socially responsible company works in the most sustainable manner possible and reconciles its goals and expectations with its stakeholders. Regardless of its size and sector, any company can harness corporate social responsibility as a strategic competitive advantage by responding to the challenge of sustainable development. CSR is also part of good leadership.
CSR concerns the entire organization. It should also be considered regarding a company's performance and strategy and put into practice in business activities. That is why those managing CSR issues need a strong line of communication with all parts of the company, and senior management must understand the issue's importance.
Instead of corporate social responsibility, we often refer to sustainable development, a broader concept. CSR has traditionally been viewed as addressing social and economic issues and the environment.