The B Academy programs reflect the rise in awareness on climate change in the academic world. Since their launch seven year ago, the interest in sustainability classes has skyrocketed to an all-time high in 2021. Increasingly, more institutions, professors and students move to take action to address society’s pressing social and environmental challenges.
B Academy offers different programs to teach strategic ESG management, impact measurement, and inclusive economic pathways in universities and higher education institutes. Our programs are dual, as they educate on the best sustainability practices and provide hands-on experiences to students by connecting the academic world with the business world. Our offering of programs is constantly growing and evolving to address the plurality of demands from academic institutions. As of today, it ranges from a simple class intervention - giving students a global vision of sustainable development challenges in the private sector - to full-fledged 12-weeks classes with business consulting opportunities. In the latter, we activate our community of B Corps so that students can deep dive both in strategic management and in concrete operationalisation. Applying student’s theoretical learnings to the complex sustainability challenges of companies make for passionate brainstorming sessions and positively surprising solutions.
Throughout its seven years of activity, B Academy partnered with prestigious institutions such as UNIGE, HEG-GE and HES-SO, EPFL, UNIL and HSG. We brought more than 20 companies onboard - Magic Tomato, Farmy, ecoRobotix and Luigia Restaurants, to name a few - and touched over 3’000 students throughout Switzerland. To keep the momentum growing, we’re now announcing the launch of the B Academics Circle Switzerland, and a new program “Train the Trainer - B Academy” is coming soon. And alongside new collaborations, we’re looking forward to the years ahead of us to keep having an impact on the academic world.