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Creative Sustainability (CS)

The MDP in Creative Sustainability is a new cross-disciplinary Master’s degree programme of Aalto University School of Art and Design, School of Economics and School of Science and Technology. Teaching language is English.

The CS program is a joint teaching platform of the Aalto University on sustainable design & business. It is built on a number of disciplines: real estate, urban planning, landscape planning, building design and industrial design, as well as the discipline of management. Each student will gain thorough knowledge of his/her own discipline. In addition, the interdisciplinary structure of the program enhances the understanding of the work practices of sustainability experts from different fields as well the skills of communication about sustainability.

Masters students of AUSE gain knowledge on the management of organizations and work, and on the role of different actors of sustainability in promoting and bringing about more sustainable and fair societies. Sustainability concerns are introduced in this program as an increasingly relevant context of business and innovation. For an AUSE student, master’s degree in creative sustainability will enhance the problem-solving skills, contribute to reflexive work practice and increase capabilities to promote business renewal and innovation.

Teaching of the program is strongly connected to practical outcomes. Courses will take students to solve problems in developing world villages, to rethink urban sustainability with city planning offices, to boost and promote new sustainable entrepreneurship, to grass-roots level work with NGO’s as well to new high-tech businesses that are emerging around renewable energy sources.

Typical jobs

Creative sustainability studies prepare students to work as sustainability experts in organizations that have strategic view on social transformation. These include business development in private sector as well as management and communications of corporate responsibility. In public sector, typical tasks relate to technology policy and regulation. Skills on sustainability also prepare students to work for a wide range of NGO’s. Read more »

International Design Business Management (IDBM)

The International Design and Business Management (IDBM) programme is an alternative specialization area for students from all the six schools of the Aalto University; the School of Economics, the School of Art and Design, the School of Science, the School of Chemical Technology, the School of Electrical Engineering, and the School of Engineering.

The administrative faculties are the department of Management and International Business at the School of Economics, the department of Design at the School of Art and Design and the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the School of Science. The participating students are from various faculties in all Aalto Schools.

The first IDBM students began their studies in the autumn of 1995. Ten to fifteen students per year are selected from each participating school, making a total of thirty to forty-five participants annually. Read more »