ProAction 2021 Edition: Climate Action

Our world is changing on an unprecedented scale, speed, and depth. You will use uncertainty to envision and enact change, and you will sink your teeth into the complexity of challenges that will frame the future. This is your place to build capacity and confidence for breaking routines and creating new visions. For 12 days you will work with academia, industry experts and NGOs in your Challenge team to identify solutions to societies most pressing issues.

• Day 1: Setting the Scene
  We will kick off with a public high-level welcome event and you will meet with an executive representative who owns the Challenge.
• Day 2: Exploring the Challenge
  You will understand the Challenge, identify new perspectives, and overcome to think business as usual.
• Day 3: Leveraging Knowledge
  Ask powerful questions to broaden your perspectives.
• Day 4: Exploring Opportunities
  You will explore many possible ideas and capture emerging ideas
• Day 5: Zoom Out
  Discover frameworks and future transformations
• Day 6: Experience transformation
  Witness a powerful example of a sustainable business creation
• Day 7: Cultural Immersion
  Learn about the transformation of Lisbon and get a hands-on experience
• Day 8: From Local to Global
  Get to know the role of Nova SBE & social businesses in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Day 9: Ideathon
  Generate forward looking ideas using innovative ideas
• Day 10: Pioneering Work in Progress
  Looking beyond your own area and explore synergies
• Day 11: Shaping the Future
  Narrowing down ideas and creating concrete roadmaps for implementation
• Day 12: Challenge Final
  Pathing the way forward with an official closing event.

The Summer School runs every day from 9.30 until 17.30 (with few exceptions). The language is English.

• A Summer School organized by Portugal’s leading and top-ranked business school Nova SBE: Experience first-class teaching by our faculty, staff, experts from across Europe and meet sustainable business solutions powered by Nova SBE Alumni.
• Work with top leaders from the corporate world: Business leaders will bring a daring Challenge to our Summer School. Join them and create innovative ideas to solve the Challenge.
• Be part of the ideas’ revolution to implement the Global Goals: As a participant of our Summer School you will work on a real-life Challenge being brought by a Challenge Owner and followed with a report at the Estoril Conferences in 2022.
• The future we need – develop a mindset for change: Unlock your potential and the potential of others to find solutions to the most pressing challenges our world is facing. You will look beyond and engage in trans-disciplinary conversations and turn uncertainty into a powerful resource.
• Going beyond the classic sight-seeing activities: Our free time activities are linked with the theme of the Summer School and will provide you with a unique learning experience from your arrival in Portugal until your departure.
• Broaden your horizon and network with a unique view: Two cocktail events with sea view where you will meet leading representatives of our Challenge Owners spiced up with a farewell dinner in a Portuguese traditional restaurant. Ready to discover your favourite Portuguese dish?

Finding solutions to the world’s challenges will require creative and innovative approaches. We invite Bachelor Students, Master Students, and recent graduates from all disciplines as well as young professionals with a passion and commitment for the Global Goals to apply for our program.

Furthermore, the following criteria are requested:

• Possess a good standard of English language and comprehension (C1) to participate. Participants do not need to provide a language test result.
• You are responsible to arrange your own entry visa, if applicable. Once you have been admitted to the program, you can ask for an admission letter for your visa application by sending a request to summer.school@novasbe.pt.
• To be able to fully participate in our program you are required to bring your own laptop/tablet.
• If you are studying at one of our partner Schools and would like to apply for a discount, we will also request a subscription confirmation from your School.

Your application will only be considered effective after paying a non-refundable application fee (50 €). Instructions for payment of the application fee are provided as part of the online application process and can be paid via credit card or PayPal. After submitting the application form, Nova SBE will notify you of its decisions to admission by email to the email address you gave in your application form. No tuition fee payment should be made to Nova SBE until you have received either our invoice or a confirmation of an available place on the Nova SBE Summer School. Incomplete applications will not be processed.

Apply now and enjoy our reduced early bird fee valid until 31 March 2021.

The program fees for 2021 are:

The fee includes the organisation of the event, transport upon arrival at Nova SBE on the first day until the final day of the Summer School, field trips and study visits. Meals during activities at Campus and program activities are included.

Our terms and conditions can be found here.

• Victoria Winter
  Summer School Director
• Vasco Santos
  Academic Director
• Carina Autengruber
  Summer School Manager

The main location of the Summer School will be at the Campus of Nova SBE (Nova School of Business & Economics, Carcavelos Campus, Rua da Holanda, no. 1, 2775-405 Carcavelos, Portugal).

Our campus right next to the beach benefits from the fantastic Portuguese weather and invites students to go outside as much as they want. The renewed space encourages new teaching approaches that focus on student interaction and collaborative learning.