ABSTRACT
The importance of partnerships between business schools, local companies and other organisations has grown in recent years and is the basis of Principle 5 (Partnerships) of the United Nations’ (UN) Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). This chapter offers a replicable model that other business schools and universities could integrate into their core curriculum while also enriching their educational methods (PRME Principle 3). The focus of the described Greenhouse Gas Management project is on the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #13 (Climate Action), but the partnership model could also be used to address other SDGs. The model is based on the assumption that students can contribute to solving sustainable challenges. Instead of learning frameworks for later use in life, students directly apply the concepts they 202encounter in a real-life business. In this chapter, the deployment of such work-based learning in the core curriculum at Nottingham Business School is described, along with details of how this aids the development of employability skills of the participating students. Furthermore, the partnership, which won the Guardian University Award in Business Partnership 2015, is described, and recommendations are included on how to set up something similar in other colleges and universities.
