Green Skills, Responsible Strategic Management and Innovation for Future Leaders

Case studies and challenge-based teamwork.

Virtual phase: 12 October – 7 December 2026.

Physical phase: 14–18 December 2026 (provisional).

Natacha Silva, Sofia Cardim, Larysa Savosh (IPB)

Compliance with national and EU accreditation standards and with the ECHE.

Business Administration students selected by the sending HEI

12 October – 7 December 2026.

14–18 December 2026 (provisional), Bragança Campus, Portugal.

The virtual component will run from 12 October to 7 December 2026. It provides the conceptual and collaborative foundation for the intensive on-site week and ensures sustained interaction among students and teachers from the partner institutions before the physical mobility. Scheduled online sessions are complemented by guided international teamwork using collaborative digital tools.

The virtual component includes:

• Introduction to green skills, responsible strategic management, sustainable business models, ESG principles, the SDGs, circular economy, green innovation and digital transformation for sustainability.
• International team formation, exchange of disciplinary and national perspectives, and collaborative analysis of selected organisational sustainability challenges.
• Case discussions, guided digital collaboration and progressive development of the teams' problem framing and proposed strategic approach.
• Online mentoring and feedback to prepare the teams for the intensive on-site workshops, company engagement and final challenge-based activities in Bragança.

The virtual phase is designed to promote active participation, peer learning, intercultural exchange and continuity between online and on-site learning. By its conclusion, participants will share a common conceptual framework and will have advanced their analysis of the challenge sufficiently to use the physical week for deeper investigation, stakeholder engagement, solution development and professional communication.

Visits to companies, intercultural evening.

To explore the knowledge and practical approaches required to manage organisations through the green and digital transitions.

• Case studies
• Challenge-based teamwork
• Multidisciplinary and international learning environment

Application of the concepts to real organisational problems in teams.

• Green skills and sustainability challenges
• Responsible strategic management, ethical leadership and decision-making
• Sustainable and circular business models and green innovation
• Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Digital transformation for sustainability
• Systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, organisational resilience and long-term sustainable value creation

By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Apply green skills, responsible strategic management and innovation concepts to real organisational problems
• Develop responsible, innovative and evidence-based solutions in a multidisciplinary and international team

The programme develops green skills and responsible strategic management competencies, namely sustainability and ESG awareness, ethical leadership and decision-making, systems thinking, green and digital innovation, and multidisciplinary, international teamwork, demonstrated through the analysis of real organisational problems and the development of responsible, evidence-based solutions in challenge-based teamwork.

• Participating in all mandatory components
• Submitted work

The programme awards 6 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). Pass/Fail.

Supervised without identity verification.

Nothing besides the online sessions.

Bachelor and Master students from Business, Management, Economics, International Business, Marketing, Tourism, Engineering, Circular Economy and Environmental Management at a partner institution. Students on an Erasmus+ exchange during the same period cannot take part with Erasmus+ funding.

Bachelor or Master students in the fields listed above; commitment to complete both the virtual and physical components.

Nomination by sending university

Students will be selected at the sending university

Registration deadline: 23 September 2026. Virtual component: 12 October – 7 December 2026. Physical component: 14–18 December 2026 (provisional).

Funding:

Apply as a student with fewer opportunities or special needs

Online and onsite support:

This is an inclusive and welcoming event. If you have questions about accessibility or would like to request an accommodation (for example: assistive technology support, assistive listening device, captioning, CART services, sign language interpreter, reserved front row seat, large print, advance copy of slides to be projected, wheelchair access to buildings/rooms, wheelchair access to working tables throughout the room, lactation room, dietary restrictions and/or other needs), please include your requirements with your registration form.

Yes, based on ECHE.

Mandatory.

Internal and external quality assurance.

ECHE alignment.

Feedback questionaire.

Mandatory under Erasmus+ programme guide.

Virtual component: 12 October – 7 December 2026. Physical component: five days at Bragança Campus, Bragança, Portugal.

Zoom.

Self-organised by the participants.

Self-organised.

Apply at the sending university. Student registration form: https://surveys.ipb.pt/index.php/468494?lang=en (deadline: 23 September 2026).