SSE's Global Challenges courses are aimed at broadly educating students about urgent and large-scale problems of modern times, as climate change, accelerating environmental damages, or the risks related to global health, inequality or autonomous intelligence. 

Here at SSE, we acknowledge the profound importance of sustainability. Misum, PRME and the group ‘Sustainable SSE’ have initiated a series of pragmatic internal films to support the endeavor of making sustainability explicit in SSE course content. These videos are a tool for SSE staff and can be accessed on the internal portal here. Alongside the video series, we have also developed a module focused on training faculty in responsible business education, which can be found here.

This program brings hands-on action and real-world experiences to the classroom through cases, live projects, and the experiences of the participants. To find out more about the special pedagogy- MBALive® read here.

SSE participates in a number of international partnerships with universities around Europe and the world. Some notable examples include:

The Global Network for Advanced Management. 

The CIVICA Alliance. 

SSE works strategically with diversity, equal opportunities and inclusion in accordance with the Discrimination Act, Swedish working environment provisions, and our policies and action plans. At SSE, we actively work for increased diversity, equal opportunities and inclusion of everyone.

Contact: Karol Vieker, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Manager

SSE seeks to have sustainability as a stable feature of its operations. Over the last two years, the efforts to improve SSE’s operational practices have built upon existing solutions and created new ones. 

Contact: Karin Elg, Facilities Director

SSE Art Initiative embeds art in the academic environment of SSE to make the school even more knowledge intensive. The initiative has engaged in making visual arts and poetry central to the School’s overall educational mission. Aesthetics opens pathways to ethics and socially responsible decisions. 

Some interesting past exhibitions include:

A Place in Europe by Cecilia Parsberg and Erik Pauser

CO2 Lock-In sculptures by Bigert & Bergström (pictured above, photo by Jean-Baptist Béranger)

Contact: Tinni Ernsjöö Rappe, Director, Art Initiative and Literary Agenda

There are two major student groups dedicated explicitly to questions of sustainability at SSE.

One is the SASSE Sustainability Group (SSG), a multifaceted group with a broad range of responsibilities, such as:

• organizing various events and activities for students to raise awareness about sustainability.
• promoting more sustainable operations within the student association, and,
• representing students interests in sustainability internally and externally.
• Some initiatives include Effective Altruism, the Sustainable Finance Club, and Focus CSR. 

Student groups independent from SASSE also promote sustainability at SSE. The SSE Students for Climate Action (SSCA) is one such group. SSCA is a student-led initiative that connects and engages students, alumni, and faculty members at SSE to increase the focus on environmental and climate-related issues within academia and to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable economy.