Overview
Shaping Sustainable Futures
An overview of WUR's research and education on a sustainable future.
Education
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Master's Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics
Are you business-minded and eager to understand how to manage the complex flows of goods, money and information in a supply chain to achieve sustainable solutions? Then this programme is designed for you! You will learn quantitative methods and tools to deal with the complexity of modern business decision making in sustainable supply chains. As a graduate, you understand supply chain processes and their key trade-offs, you can envision how new developments can be applied in businesses to make an impact, and you are able to analyse and solve complex business and supply chain decision problems in practice using quantitative tools.
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Master's Resilient Farming and Food Systems
The Master Resilient Farming and Food Systems focusses on developing the food systems of the future, that balance human needs for food production and security with natural resource use and environmental protection. The programme has an interdisciplinary approach, combing knowledge on agroecology with the societal and sociological context of food production, from a local to a global scale. This makes the programme accessible and challenging for undergraduates from both natural and social science backgrounds.
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Master's Sustainable Business and Innovation
The world faces enormous sustainability challenges and must rely for an important part on innovative businesses to address these. To become a part of sustainable solutions, firms and markets need to transform, realising organisational renewal and sustainable value propositions, making effective use of data‐driven and smart innovations, and re‐aligning with partners in global and local value chains. In this Master programme, you will acquire knowledge, skills and competencies from both, business science and marketing, to become a manager, marketer or entrepreneur who can lead a sustainable business, contributing to a sustainable future.
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Nature-based Future Challenge
In 2023 Wageningen University & Research launches a new initiative, The Nature-based Future Challenge. Its goal is to visualize the potential of the nature-based solutions to respond to the biggest challenges of the 21st century: climate change and biodiversity loss.
