Global challenges series for the makers of the future
Global risks remain severe. Climate change, international wars, declining biodiversity, deteriorating mental health, increasing political polarization, and deadly pandemics are some prominent examples. The overall objective of the Global Challenges Series is to inspire and prepare SSE students to make a difference by addressing these risks, as leading professionals and as engaged citizens. The Global Challenges Series includes two mandatory courses, Global Challenges I: Understanding (BE801), Global Challenges II: Shifting (BE802). It also includes an elective course, Impactful Entrepreneurship for Global Challenges: Acting (BE906). In harmony with SSE's overall philosophy, we believe that these courses support the FREE mindset (facts- and research-based, reflective and self-aware, empathetic and culturally literate, and entrepreneurial and responsible) and that the FREE mindset will be helpful in approaching these courses.
The Global Challenges Series is enabled by a generous donation from the Global Challenges Foundation. Global Challenges Foundation works to raise awareness of global catastrophic risks and to strengthen global governance to handle them.
Please find enclosed the companion site for Professor Tore Ellingsen’s book Institutional and Organizational Economics which is relied upon in course Global Challenges 1: Understanding