International Summer School

Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important focus of business operations. The reasons for this can be found in the negative consequences of the neoliberal development paradigm in the world and the calls for sustainable development by supranational and national institutions. The latter implies that countries, organisations and individuals not only focus on achieving economic prosperity, but also seek to have a positive impact on the natural environment and society.

International business involves interactions and business activities between many countries, companies and stakeholders. Such dimensions of action offer opportunities to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable development across large geographical spaces and among many audiences. At the same time, they offer a number of tests for companies on their real commitment to sustainability. Companies are responding to calls to implement sustainability in their business practices with varying degrees of commitment; some are integrating all sustainability aspects (economic, social, environmental) into their international business practices, others only a few. Companies have different approaches to measuring and reporting on the implementation of sustainability aspects in their business. Multinational companies offer many examples of good practice in this area.

The turbulent political and socio-economic situation in the world calls for much-needed transformations of business activities or entire business models of companies. The latter present opportunities to reverse harmful socio-economic trends and increase the innovation and global competitiveness of countries and companies.

The key objective of the International Summer School "Sustainability in International Business" is to raise students' awareness of the concept of sustainability in international business as a necessary orientation in the business models of companies with the aim of building long-term sustainable and resilient socio-economic environments for countries. The activities of the summer school focus on learning about good practices in implementing sustainability in international business operations. The summer school programme includes lectures by national/foreign lecturers and practitioners, learning workshops with active participation of students and a professional excursion to international companies.

We invite you all to take a look at the highlights of our last 2 International Summer Schools, which took place in 2022 and 2023. You can see the highlights in the tabs on the right side of the website.