WELLBEING SCHEME PILOTED
COORDINATING INTERDISCIPLINARY CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH AND COLLABORATION COUNTRY: Denmark SCHOOL: Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School (CBS) has highlighted its commitment to research that seeks to alleviate the problems of climate change with the creation of a Vice Dean for Green Transition. A key facet of the position will be to coordinate research partnerships between the social sciences and other disciplines, particularly in the STEM area, and to ensure the School engages in national and international interdisciplinary initiatives in green transition. ‘This appointment shows the green transition area has a great managerial focus at CBS, and it is an important joint task which affects research as well as education here,’ said Søren Hvidkjær, Dean of Research at Copenhagen Business School. ‘The Vice Dean is to pioneer the effort of bringing our green focus areas together to develop them and build bridges to companies, politicians and other research institutions.’ The School’s first appointment to the role is Hanne Harmsen, a Green Transformation Officer at CBS, and a former Executive Vice President at Innovation Fund Denmark. She has also served as Vice Provost for Education at the University of Copenhagen, and Associate Dean of Strategic Management at Aarhus School of Business. ‘The green transition debate has tended to focus on technology, but we also need to focus on social sciences,’ she explained. ‘For instance, CBS delivers knowledge on consumer behaviour and economic models to measure the impact of new initiatives. And we have knowledge on how to lead an organisation facing green transition initiatives.’ The School believes it can play a significant part in reducing climate change. It also feels that new research, education programmes, innovation, and greater collaboration across sciences and sectors are required for Denmark to achieve its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. / TBD
AT IE BUSINESS SCHOOL
COUNTRY: Spain SCHOOL: IE Business School
A pilot wellbeing programme at IE Business School is proving so successful that it will now be replicated around the whole of IE University. The programme was introduced by the IE Centre for Health, Wellbeing and Happiness, and is delivered through workshops. Two sessions delivered over a three-week period have the aim of teaching students coping mechanisms, and giving them tools to invest in themselves continually. The students taking part in this workshop produce their own wellbeing plan, outlining where their existing strengths in personal wellbeing lie, and what strategies they could put in place to improve it. With the goal of helping students create positive emotions and applications to understand what is important in life, the programme draws on the PERMA-H model (Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment and Health) that was conceived by University of Pennsylvania’s Martin Seligman. Armed with this knowledge and awareness, the programme hopes to give its participants the ability to manage themselves better. ‘Wellbeing in Practice is a workshop to build awareness about student wellbeing, the interconnection of body-mind-soul, and to leverage the science of positive emotions to cultivate ownership and action around wellbeing,’ said Lisa Bevill, Academic Director of the Centre for Health, Wellbeing and Happiness. Students who have already taken part have been positive about their experiences. Global MBA student Saki Kozai said: ‘It was a great opportunity to learn about wellbeing at the beginning of my MBA programme because it would be challenging to balance MBA, work, and parenting for me. Learning the tips to stay healthy, physically and mentally, will definitely help me during the programme.’ IE Business School Dean Lee Newman commented: ‘This workshop is one example of the importance we place on how working well means not just delivering on results but fostering the wellbeing of the people we work with.’ / EB
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