At the start of the course, students engage in the 21-day challenge. It is is a gamified module motivating students to review and improve their sustainability habits in a game format. Through daily thematic challenges and engaging content, course participants can gain practical insights into sustainable living and decision-making, aligned with the 17 SDGs. If you would like to access and use the 21-Day Challenge please send an email to LUT representatives.
PART 1 of TRUST Finance course consists consists of the next modules:
PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE module introducing engineering students to the fundamentals of finance, equipping them with the knowledge needed to understand financial decision-making and basics of financial management.
Lecture Recordings:
Risks, Opportunities, Time Value Money
Financing Decisions, Financing Investment
Financial Management and Value Creation
INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY module is developed for students with a background in finance and business. It explores how technology and innovation can be leveraged to address sustainability challenges, fostering a forward-thinking approach to sustainable development.
Lecture Recordings:
Sustainability and Sustainable Development
Technologies and Sustainability
Climate Change and Renewable Energy
Sustainability and Financial System
Responsible Innovation Series Innovation
Responsible Innovation definition
QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS module is designed for both students’ cohorts and aims to present and refresh quantitative analysis skills, applied to sustainable finance.
Lecture Recordings:
Quantitative Analysis – Part 1
Quantitative Analysis – Part 2
Quantitative Analysis – Part 3
Detailed Part 1 syllabus can be found below.
Part 2 In-depth Focus on Sustainable Finance covers the next topics:
- Carbon finance and pricing
- Green Finance products (ESG criteria, Green bonds, green loans…)
- Modeling and Forecasting Sustainability
- Purpose of companies and sustainable business models
- ESG reporting and valuation impact, Other (reporting) frameworks (TCFD, SASB,
- ISO, GRI, IIRC, IFRS, CDP, Rating agencies).
- Paris agreement and current trends (e.g., Covid-19)
- Biodiversity finance
- Corporate governance and stakeholder activism
- Fraud and ethics
- Alternative banking (changing divestment and investment paradigms)
- Fintech for sustainability
- Role of banks and insurances
- Regulations and legislations (e.g., European directives, EU Green Taxonomy)
- Impact investing, SRI, quantitative indicators.
Lecture Materials: Introduction to Sustainable Finance Regulation
Part 3 ESG Challenge.
For the purposes of the TRUST Finance course, the ESG database is available for use. A sample dataset can be downloaded found and downloaded below. To access the full database, click here. For further information about the database, please contact the IPAG Business School.