Teaching sustainability in the Industrial Engineering and Digital Economics degree programs

With their positioning at the interface between business and technology, the degree programs at the KIT Faculty of Business Administration and Economics are ideally suited for teaching content on the sustainable development of society.

The teaching content of the KIT Faculty of Business Administration and Economics on economic, digital and social aspects of sustainability is ideally complemented by

Engineering courses in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in Industrial Engineering and Management
Computer science content in the Bachelor and Master of Business Informatics (offered together with the KIT Faculty of Computer Science)
economic and social science content in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in Digital Economics
Mathematical courses in the Master's program in Business Mathematics

What is ESD?

ESD is the abbreviation for Education for Sustainable Development. The aim of the initiative is education that enables people to think and act in a sustainable way. The aim is to enable each individual to understand the impact of their own actions on the world.

On June 20, 2017, the National Platform on Education for Sustainable Development adopted the National Action Plan for the Implementation of the UNESCO Global Action Program on Education for Sustainable Development (2015-2019).

There are also numerous national and global programs and initiatives.

Current ESD courses at the Wiwi-Faculty

	Business Administration (incl. Operations Research)	Computer Science and Business Informatics	ECONOMICS
Lectures and seminars with a focus on ESD	Efficient Energy Systems and Electric Mobility Introduction to the energy industry Energy Policy (Energy and) Power Systems Optimization Emissions into the environment Life Cycle Assessment and Forecasts of Global Development Production and Sustainability Renewable Energy - Resources, Technologies and Economics Sustainable Finance/Climate Finance Heat Economy	Sustainability Design Seminar: Digital Citizen Science	Organization and management of development projects Transportation Economics Environmental and resource policy Environmental economics and sustainability Welfare theory Social Choice Theory Ethics of AI
ESD topics that are addressed in other lectures and seminars	Decent work and gender equality: Human Resources and Organization module, HR Management & Digital Workplace module, Incentives, Interactivity and Decisions in Organizations module Sustainable investments: B2B sales management, financial management, FinTech, management accounting, Sustainable consumer behavior: Brand Management, Digital Marketing Optimization of the energy system: Advances in stochastic optimization Practical cases on the topic of sustainability: Advanced Management Accounting, Impact Workshop	Green AI: Artificial Intelligence in Service Systems II, Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Machine Learning Sustainable business process management: operational information systems Practical cases on the topic of sustainability: Business Intelligence Systems, Cognitive Automobiles and Robots, Data Science Challenge, Designing Interactive Systems, Engineering Interactive Systems, Foundations of Interactive Systems, Service Design Thinking	Sustainable Public Decisions: Public Revenue, Social Choice Theory Sustainable growth: Economics II (macroeconomics, compulsory), Economics of Innovation, Introduction to Economic Policy, Growth and Development Regional and intergenerational equity: Spatial Economics, Game Theory, Telecommunications and Internet Economics, Welfare Theory Practical cases on sustainability: Selected aspects of European transport planning and modeling, Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting Challenge (energy demand)
Team projects	Regular offer of team projects related to sustainability in the module "Team Project Business & Technology"

* No claim to completeness, based on feedback from 22 professors, plus a large number of courses in the engineering sciences