SCOM – Sustainable Company
| University | Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) |
|---|---|
| Center/Department/Research group | Civil Law Department |
| Research title | SCOM – Sustainable Company |
| Scientific area | Sustainability science, administrative law, corporate law, higher education |
| Related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) | 8, 12, 13, 17 |
| Target(s) to which it contributes | SDG 8 with targets 8.3 and 8.4: the second part of the project focused on private market actors aims at making a business case for resource efficiency as well as the transformation of business models towards sustainable forms.
SDG 12 with targets 12.2; 12.5; 12.6; 12.7 and 12.8: the first and second part of the project both aim at ensuring sustainable consumption and production, either through the public market, either to the private one, and aiming to ensure sustainable practices either in public procurement either through the whole value chain in the private market. SDG 13 with target 13.3: the third part of the project on embedding sustainability in the higher education curricula aims at improving education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning, amongst other sustainability challenges. SDG 17 with targets 17.13, 17.14, 17.16 and 17.17: the SCOM Project as a whole aims at ensuring a certain level of policy coherence for sustainability, facilitating public-private partnerships and furthering the sustainability agenda in higher education. |
| Further information (website, if any) | www.upf.edu/web/sustainable-company |
This project aims at providing new inter- and multidisciplinary solutions to the challenges of sustainable corporate behaviour through the analysis of ‘best practices’ of ‘highly sustainable companies’, by using the experience of ‘green public procurement’ in the EU and especially in Catalunya as an example of how to successfully implement ‘sustainable’ concerns.The implementation of the research findings into the university curricula shall contribute to solidifying the sustainable business model by internalizing such concerns by the future business officers and lawyers. It is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 789461 (SCOM Project – Sustainable Company). The target audience is the policy makers, academics as well as public authorities involved in public purchasing procedures. Several strategic partnerships have been formed during this project: with the ERC funded SMART Project from the University of Oslo; the Global Climate Change Week Organisation; the Sustainability Worldwide Center 2050; the in-house Planetary Wellbeing Programme as well as individual alliances in the field of sustainable business and fashion. The project has predominantly global focus with specific local ingredients.
