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Call for Proposals
Do you have a great idea for a sustainability-related initiative? Something that is by our community, for our community?
Please join our next Sustainability Board meeting on November 15, 14:00 - 15:30 to hear the latest proposals or to present your idea! Register HERE, add to calendar and access the Zoom link. Approved proposals will be funded up to 1.000€ (depending on evaluation, budget and feasibility). To submit a proposal, see HERE. Anyone from across the entire IE community is welcome to join for these quarterly meetings as well as to present sustainability proposals.
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Is this the World’s last chance to get climate change under control?
The Road to COP26. On Halloween day we will confront a terrifying reality and a global cause of concern; climate change. From the 31st of October until the 12th of November, the UK in partnership with Italy will host in Glasgow the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP). The COP26 Summit brings all the main parties together to act in order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. All countries will be joining forces in one of the best chances to tackle the climate emergency, together with civil society, companies and all actors on the frontline. More information: COP26. |
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| STEM TALENT GIRL 21/22. Apply now
If you have a daughter 3º, 4º ESO o Bachillerato, that would love to discover her talents as well as the wonderful world of #STEM , they are now launching the 6st Edition of the Stem Talent Girl in two formats:
STG on campus: Available in one of our venues in Madrid, Santander, Leon, Zamora, Salamanca, Valladolid, Palencia, Burgos, Soria, Segovia o Ávila.
STG Online: For highschool, secondary students, Bachillerato. Internationally. Online and available in Spanish. The application deadline is October 15th. For more info click here. Any questions please write to info@talent-girl.com. |
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SDG Think Tank
IE Sustainable Development Goals Club hosted its first event on September 22nd, the club created a platform to propose solutions through climate activism with Borja Santos, Executive Director of IE School of Public and Global Affairs and adjunct professor of International Development, Social Entrepreneurship and climate activist Rosa Castizo. If you would like to attend the next SDG THINK TANK, join the club or check their dates on the calendar. |
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ALUMNI TAKE THE LEAD.
Nicholas Saye. Founder of TUMBAO
Nicholas Saye is a designer and entrepreneur with a talent for producing eccentric ideas and making them a reality. His passions lie in sustainability and seeing a positive impact on the world. He is the Founder of TUMBAO, a brand of sustainable products made from nopal. If you would like to learn more about Nicholas and TUMBAO follow this link. |
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IE impact. Welcome to all participants in the IE challenge
The first edition of the IE Challenge as part of the IE Impact multi-school program, launched this September with around 620 students coming from different undergraduate programs and working in 105 teams. Through design-thinking workshops and mentoring, in this new program the students will work as innovation consultants helping their startup clients to maximize their impact on achieving some of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Students earn credits in courses in the fields of Humanities, Entrepreneurship, Technology and for participating in the IE Challenge . |
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What kind of green talent does Spain and Europe need?
Professor Borja Rojas wonders and answers this and other questions in his article for ESGLOBAL. He states that Europe’s commitment to reply to the climate change challenges grows in different spheres of society yet in order for this commitment to take place, it is necessary to count on people with the right set of skills and knowledge. A collective of human resources appropriate to transform our economy, our industry and our consuming habits. What he calls “Green Talent”. What is Green Talent? How can we connect education with the new needs of the new work market? How much Green work can be generated? If you would like to know the answers to these questions and more, read his article (in Spanish) here. |
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THE 1312 PROJECT
A fleet of more than 200 ships set sail to explore the limits of the Atlantic Ocean.
And so began in April 2021 Project 1312, with a remarkable Letter from Felicia Appenteng: Chair, IE Africa & Managing Director of the IE Fund and Lilian Lopez: Regional Director, IE North America. Such a promising prologue served to introduce the Project 1312, an initiative from IE University that celebrates the positive impact of connections between Africa and the rest of the world. It is a series of four digital journals highlighting the communities, stories, and collaborative work of IE Africa Center & IE North America. It is a human-centered medium. In October the third journal is coming to life, if you are interested in reading this last journal as well as the previous two, sign up for the newsletter here. |
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| Finance. Alternative investing
“Sustainable investment for “additional” profitability”
An article written by Laura Nuñez (Professor of Finance and Director for the Center for Insurance Research at IE Business School) and Marta Olba, published in the financial newspaper Cinco Dias. In this article the authors write about the numerous economic benefits of investing in ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance). ESG Investing is an evolution of SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) and it is an investing strategy that seeks not only financial returns but also a positive social and environmental impact. Read the full article here. |
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Women in Sports
Imagine if one of the all-time best tennis players, Serena Williams, quit playing after highschool
During adolescence around 86% of girls that play a sport end up quitting around this time. More so if it is a sport considered “masculine”. Knowing the physical and psychological benefits derived from sports practice, IE WOMEN brought closer all the sports clubs from Segovia to the girls in the community, firstly to prevent them from dropping their sports practice, but also to promote sports to more girls so they start playing. A much needed and great initiative from our colleagues at IE WOMEN.
More info
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IE Architecture
Our students from the IE School of Architecture of Design presented projects that intend to improve our daily life in topics as relevant as global warming or Social Media addiction.
Read the article in El Pais national newspaper. |
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Profiling Spanish Prospective Buyers of Electric Vehicles Based on Demographics
Consumer behaviour of potential buyers of electric vehicles based on gender among other demographics according to research by Professor José Manuel Esteves (MBA Dean)
Click HERE for more information |
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- Increase the threshold of your influence: SPREAD KINDNESS. There is greatness in small gestures, from lending a helping hand, holding the door, listening and showing concern to random acts of kindness that might change someone’s day. This is by far the easiest way of having an impact on the people around you. In kindness lies great power. This is why our tip is for you to go ahead and increase the threshold of your influence, impact your surroundings by being kind.
- Be proactive: GET INVOLVED. “How can I help?” is an ice breaker that will take you far. Once you overcome shyness, reticence and awkwardness if any you will see that the personal gains of you getting involved in activities for the improvement of the community are endless.
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- Cycle to class. Cycle to work. It’s fun, it’s clean and it’s good for your health. Make sure you wear a helmet and you follow thoroughly all road rules.
- Go Paperless. Go Techie. Take notes in your phone or on your computer. Use apps to make your notes, presentations or comments easier. And as a rule of thumb if you would like to be more sustainable always go through the 4 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rethink.
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- Vitamin D. Follow the Sun. With an estimated average of 2769 hours of sun in Madrid, you have no excuse to take your daily dose of vitamin D. Vitamin D is fundamental for strengthen your bones and muscles, focus in class, supports the immune system to fight inflammation and helps battling depression among other benefits.
- Be grateful. Be happy. McCraty and colleagues (cited in McCraty & Childre, 2004), in one of their studies on gratitude and appreciation, found that participants who felt grateful showed a marked reduction in the level of cortisol, the stress hormone. Aside from reducing cortisol, gratitude increases oxytocin the glue hormone that is responsible for us having meaningful relationships with each other.
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