Free online course - Business model innovation for Sustainable Landscape Restoration

The European Network for the Advancement of Business and Landscape Education (ENABLE) has created its second MOOC: Business Model Innovation for Sustainable Landscape Restoration. In this course, you are encouraged to take your skills and insights to the next level by going through the business model innovation process. The MOOC starts TODAY on Valentines Day, February 14th (because we love the earth).

Our planet is under threat of large-scale land degradation. However,  there is huge potential for restoring the planet's landscapes: around two billion hectares of land, about two times the size of China, can be restored. To do so, partnerships of public, private and civic parties are key and development and implementation of sustainable business models is crucial. 

Our new MOOC aims to equip learners from environmental, business or other backgrounds with practical tools to advance sustainable and business-driven landscape restoration. The MOOC moves the participants from ideation towards the successful implementation of a new business model for sustainable landscape restoration with four returns: return of inspiration, return of natural and social capital and return of financial capital. Each step of the process is illustrated with three real-life cases of landscape restoration in Spain, Iceland and Portugal. 

This course builds upon our first MOOC and zooms in on the potential for a positive role of business model innovation for landscape restoration, highlighting the following elements: vision formulation, systems analysis, stakeholder analysis, opportunity analysis, business model design, solution validation, assessment and monitoring, and reflection and iteration.

As of today, you can start working, individually or in groups, on designing your sustainable business model for landscape restoration – one of the biggest challenges of our time.

Have a look at our teaser video: https://youtu.be/wSZrNkXrGuE
Subscribe to the course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/bmi-sustainable-landscape-restoration
And join our Business4Landscapes LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13523244/

ENABLE

ENABLE is a strategic partnership, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. Its consortium partners are Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Spanish National Research Council Soil and Water Conservation Research Group, Commonland, United Nations University Land Restoration Training Programme, and Nova School of Business and Economics.