W ramach projektu Concern for Tomorrow: Integrating the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education rozpoczęliśmy pierwsze zadanie PBL – Sustainable business organization (ESG in action).
Studenci pracują nad stworzeniem własnej firmy, analizują jej odpowiedzialność społeczną w obszarze ESG oraz przygotowują strategię komunikacji i promocji. Efektem końcowym będzie prezentacja koncepcji biznesowej wraz z analizą finansową i planem działań odpowiedzialnych społecznie.
Zapraszamy do zapoznania się z zadaniem:
PBL Project – Sustainable business organization (ESG in action)
Applicable to participants of problem-based learning (PBL) applied during workshop in Warsaw as a part of the project: Concern for Tomorrow: Integrating the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education
Warsaw, 19th-23rd of May
Method: Problem-Based Learning
Task Overview
Objective:
Establish a small business that is socially responsible.
Steps:
- Start your own company: plan which sectors your company will operate and what type of company it will be (Tuesday)
- Make your company socially responsible: analyze in which Environmental, Social and Governance aspects your company can make improvement (Wednesday)
- Check if ESG is a good investment (Thursday)
- Plan how to promote your company and how to communicate ESG (Thursday)
- Finish your project and present it (Friday)
Task Description:
You are tasked with creating and small business in today’s market conditions and plan its main areas of social responsibility in which company should be involved.
Deliverables
- A spreadsheet showing detailed calculations of costs, revenue, and profit/loss (Excel or similar).
- A second spreadsheet listing sources for the cost data used (Excel or similar).
- Financial analysis metrics such as ROA (Return on Assets), NPV (Net Present Value), and BEP (Break-even Point) calculations (Excel or similar).
- A visualization of your financial performance (Excel or similar).
- List of ESG aspects in which your company influence environment and society, and list of governance areas that needs addressing
- Selections of the most important aspects, that you will include into your companies’ operations
- Plan of how you address these aspects, in what ways you will make your company more socially responsible
- Channels of promotion with promotional materials
- An oral presentation summarizing your business concept and its results to the jury
Learning Outcomes
This project aims to help you:
- Apply concepts from Microeconomics and Business courses, gaining an understanding of how business can be more socially responsible.
- Present your business idea clearly, using relevant data and information to make your case convincingly.
- Use IT tools to achieve project objectives and effectively communicate findings.
- Develop teamwork skills.
- Understand key factors that contribute to the quality of a project.
Basic Requirements
- Work in teams of 5 students, with each team member contributing actively.
- Follow the project timeline and meet all deadlines.
- Incorporate knowledge from the courses taught during PBL-testing in Warsaw.
