Communities of Practice: Greece
- Students expressed a desire for increased emphasis on sustainability and digital transformation in courses. Recognizes the need for heightened awareness and understanding of sustainability goals and ESG principles among students.
- Growing need for young professionals to engage with social media and digital products while also demonstrating expertise in addressing climate change concerns.
- The importance of envisioning and defining sustainable design skills for job positions related to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors.
- The shipping industry in Greece is being driven by market forces and legislation to prioritise ESG principles. They represent early adopters in the country and are working towards raising awareness and protecting the seas.
- Consensus on prioritizing ESG factors for a sustainable future, calling for active participation from governments and individuals in environmental stewardship and governance. Promotes integration and collaboration as central concepts.
- Educators advocate for new courses focused on legislation, regulation, and sustainability goals in management and engineering schools. Suggests alignment of local regulations with international legislation and integration of key topics about international sustainability into existing courses.
- Significant mismatch between the ambitions of sustainability-driven workers and current labor market demands. Business stakeholders recommend creating more jobs with a specific focus on sustainability and enhancing existing personnel skills through training. Acknowledges a lack of awareness about sustainability, suggesting the organization of seminars or workshops by universities to address this gap.
Thematic units of future-oriented curricula
Environmental Social Governance (ESG) factors for a sustainable future
Integration as a central concept in promoting sustainability
Legislation and regulation, focusing on sustainability goals
Mismatch between ambition of workers in sustainability and labour market demand
Sustainability and Climate Change: Address how the sector could look like 2040 after the transition and highlight the changes. The terms ESG and Sustainability are often used interchangeably because a relationship and intersection exists.
Sustainability is the broadest concept, encompassing public and private action.
ESGIs typically used by the private sector (incl financial institutions) to measure companies and screen.
Regulation is lagging behind global climate change requirements
Regulation is Lagging: Using regulation paradigms adopted by leading shipping communities/countries, which will, eventually and in one form or another, be brought into the local environment.
Mismatch between ambition of workers in sustainability and labour market demand
Sustainability and Climate Change: Address how the sector could look like 2040 after the transition and highlight the changes. The terms ESG and Sustainability are often used interchangeably because a relationship and intersection exists.
Sustainability is the broadest concept, encompassing public and private action.
ESGIs typically used by the private sector (incl financial institutions) to measure companies and screen.
Regulation is lagging behind global climate change requirements
Regulation is Lagging: Using regulation paradigms adopted by leading shipping communities/countries, which will, eventually and in one form or another, be brought into the local environment.
Mismatch between ambition of workers in sustainability and labour market demand
Sustainability and Climate Change: Address how the sector could look like 2040 after the transition and highlight the changes. The terms ESG and Sustainability are often used interchangeably because a relationship and intersection exists.
Sustainability is the broadest concept, encompassing public and private action.
ESGIs typically used by the private sector (incl financial institutions) to measure companies and screen.
Regulation is lagging behind global climate change requirements
Regulation is Lagging: Using regulation paradigms adopted by leading shipping communities/countries, which will, eventually and in one form or another, be brought into the local environment.
Mismatch between ambition of workers in sustainability and labour market demand
Sustainability and Climate Change: Address how the sector could look like 2040 after the transition and highlight the changes. The terms ESG and Sustainability are often used interchangeably because a relationship and intersection exists.
Sustainability is the broadest concept, encompassing public and private action.
ESGIs typically used by the private sector (incl financial institutions) to measure companies and screen.
Regulation is lagging behind global climate change requirements
Regulation is Lagging: Using regulation paradigms adopted by leading shipping communities/countries, which will, eventually and in one form or another, be brought into the local environment.