Sustainable and Responsible Business 5 ECTS, Spring 2026

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Sustainable and responsible business 5 ECTS course can be taken individually or in a team (recommended). During the course, students will learn about sustainability and responsibility as a basis for business planning. The output of the module will be assessed through peer assessment and the students’ own competences will be demonstrated in the module exams.

The online course will be organized in English.

Key contents

  • business planning: need, solution, market, revenue model, pricing, financial and profitability analysis, channels of sales and marketing
  • responsibility, ethics and sustainable development in business planning

Additional information

Humak’s Open UAS studies are only available for students who have Finnish personal identity code.

Studies Open University of Applied Sciences
Method of instruction Online course
Study Period

 

 23.02.2026-17.05.2026
Schedule and mode of delivery

NB! Humak’s Open UAS studies are only available for
students who have Finnish personal identity code.

Independent/team work, self-directed work on the material, tutorials and exams.

Exams can be taken flexibly, without being tied to a time during the study period.

Total student workload hours: 135 hours (5 ECTS x 27 hours)

Grading scale: 0-5

Webinars: Schedules for webinars will be published 15 August 2025 at the latest.
Registration period 01.08.2025 at 12.00 (UTC+3) – 09.02.2026 at 23.59 (UTC+2)
Contact person Markus Suomi (firstname.lastname@humak.fi)
General information Contact Open UAS student administration for matters regarding registration, payment, certificates:
avoinamk@humak.fi
tel. +358 29 451 9230

Learning objectives

After successfully completing the course, the students

  • are familiar with the different phases of planning and setting up a business.
  • can plan customer-oriented, profitable and responsible business practices and ethically sustainable products and services for creative industries.
  • identify alternative pricing and revenue models for products and services within creative industries.

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