BRI - Biodiversity and Business: from Research to Impact

II EDITION | ON SITE | APPLICATION

Deadline for registration

December 8^th, 2024

Period

January 27^th-31^st, 2025

Learning objectives

The protection of biodiversity presents a worldwide challenge, with the EU striving to take the lead in addressing its decline through its 2030 Biodiversity Strategy. Businesses are pivotal in crafting a framework that preserves and restores biodiversity along with the ecosystem services it offers. The Seasonal School is committed to addressing the global imperative of biodiversity conservation and advocating for a regenerative economic development approach.

The objectives of the Seasonal School are as follows: (1) examine and promote a development model capable of protecting and regenerating biodiversity and the services that ecosystems provide, from a perspective of regenerative economic development; (2) provide participants with stimuli and tools to understand and measure the impact of business on biodiversity, evaluate risks and opportunities; and (3) foster technological and organizational innovation, encouraging the development of new technological and organizational solutions that foster a regenerative economy that protects natural capital. The Seasonal School is affiliated with the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), an Italian project funded by the European Union's NextGenerationEU initiative.

Teaching methodologies

The Seasonal School includes lessons with active participation from students, case studies discussion, laboratory activity in-person testimonies from entrepreneurs, managers and experts in the field of biodiversity, company visits to parks/organizations that contribute to biodiversity protection, and guided group work aimed at promoting discussion among students from different disciplines on the contents learned during the Seasonal School.

Target participants

Undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students from different backgrounds (e.g. management, biology, law, political science, life sciences and engineering) who are interested in acquiring knowledge, skills, and experiences in the broad field of biodiversity and business.

Scholarships

Due to the funding allocated to the National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC) project as part of the activities of Spoke 7, activity line 5, involving the Insitute of Management at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan financed by the NextGenerationEU program, an amount of 5,000.00 euros is made available for covering registration fees for eligible participants - according to the criteria outlined in the announcement - for the Seasonal School "Biodiversity and Business: From Research to Impact - Academic Year 2024/25" with an indicator of ISEE/alternative income certification indicating lower income based on the documentation submitted during the applicantion phase.
Registration fees will be covered until the available funds are exhausted.
Students from partner universities of the EELISA network who have already benefited from additional grants are excluded from this assistance.
In case of income parity among beneficiaries, the criterion of the chronological order of submission of registration applications will be adopted.