City Centre Campus

Tampere

Sustainable business practices course covers responsibility in various business models, practices and contexts, for example limited companies, cooperatives, social enterprises, public organisations, and hybrid organisations.

Open University

There
will be two implementations of this course in the academic year 2025-2026: 1) Participating in teaching, spring 2026.  2) Independent study and exam, autumn 2025.

Faculty of Management and Business

English

The student is aware of how social, environmental and economic responsibility are linked to and contextualised in business practices. The student understands the diversity of business operations and key features of different business models. The student is aware of the opportunities and challenges provided by different business models in creating societal welfare and stakeholder value. The student is able search and evaluate research information, and verbalise the acquired knowledge in written text.

We strongly recommend that student complete the recommended prerequisites, especially the Business ethics course. Students can participate this course after taking Business ethics or if they have basic knowledge of business ethics, CSR and stakeholders from other studies.

<h3>Lectures</h3><h4>Lecture: </h4>05.02.2026 12.00 - 05.02.2026 15.00, TAU Pinni B1097 auditorio (100)

TUNI Moodle: KAT.VAST.208-2025-2026-2 Sustainable business practices (Lectures)

Participation in teaching and literary work, spring 2026

Participating in teaching and literary work, spring 2026. This
is the lecture option of the course, which comprises of taking part to
lectures and completing individual and group assignments. Lectures are held on Tampere University city campus. This course consists of 8 lectures. The lectures are held on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays at 13-16.The lecture times will be confirmed in the beginning of 2026 as soon as the schedules have been agreed upon with visiting lecturers.The grading of the course consists of a group presentation and a learning diary. Students are encouraged to write the learning diary in pairs but it is possible to write it alone. Lectures include case exercises and visiting lecturers. Due to the interactive nature of the lectures, participation on campus is mandatory. Lectures will not be streamed or recorded <a href="https://www.tuni.fi/en/study-with-us/open-higher-education-studies/open-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">More information about
studying at the Open University</a>

<h5>Lectures</h5>This course consists of 8 lectures. The lectures are held on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays at 13-16.The lecture times will be confirmed in the beginning of 2026 as soon as the schedules have been agreed upon with visiting lecturers.The grading of the course consists of a group presentation and a learning diary. Students are encouraged to write the learning diary in pairs but it is possible to write it alone. Lectures include case exercises and visiting lecturers. Due to the interactive nature of the lectures, participation on campus is mandatory. Lectures will not be streamed or recorded.

TUNI Moodle: KAT.VAST.208-2025-2026-1 Sustainable business practices (Online teaching)

Independent study and exam, autumn 2025

Independent study and exam, autumn 2025. This is an independent online option, which comprise of completing online assignments and an exam according to students&#39; own schedules. The grading is based on exam and other individual tasks completed in Moodle. The exam is done in the electronic exam rooms on campus and can be booked according to your own schedule within the course dates.The course includes an electronic Exam. The student takes the exam at the time of their choice in the EXAM room. The EXAM facilities of the University of Tampere are located on the Tampere campuses, in the University Consortium of Pori and in the University Consortium of Seinäjoki. <a href="https://sites.tuni.fi/exam-en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read the instructons for the EXAM exam.</a> It is also possible to take exams in the EXAM rooms of other Finnish Unversities in several different locations (co called exam-visit). You can check the higher education institutions where EXAM visits are currently possible on <a href="https://e-exam.fi/in-english/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the EXAM Visit website</a>.<a href="https://www.tuni.fi/en/study-with-us/open-higher-education-studies/open-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">More information about studying at the Open University</a>

Independent studies

<h5>Online teaching</h5>Sustainable business practices course covers responsibility in various business models, practices and contexts, for example limited companies, cooperatives, social enterprises, public organisations, and hybrid organisations. This is the independent online option of the course, which comprise of completing online assignments according to students&#39; own schedules.The grading is based on the individually written essay. Thus, there is no exam or group work. The deadline for the final essay is in the end of the course.

KAT.VAST.208 Sustainable Business Practices, 5 cr

On this page

Course completion at Open University

Required prior knowledge

Implementations and registration

Participation in teaching and literary work, spring 2026, 5 cr

Course objectives

Learning outcomes

Content

Study materials

More information about studying at the Open University

Terms of payment

Contact us

Give feedback on our website!