Sustainability

Sustainability goals

BI Norwegian Business School’s goal is to shape the labour market of the future through our research and teaching, both in our capacity as the main supplier of economic and administrative education in Norway, and as one of Europe’s leading business schools.

The key factor has always been to offer educational programmes that are up to date and relevant for the actual needs in business. This implies a responsibility to push agendas and spearhead important changes in society.

Research plays a pivotal role in providing us with the knowledge needed to change practices and bring both the private and public sectors forward. In terms of sustainability, our research should contribute to everything from greater value creation and reduced waste, better healthcare management, reduction of white-collar crime and corruption, to macroeconomic modelling and forecasting to predict and prevent crises.

One of BIs core values is to act with responsibility. In relation to sustainability, this means that:

• We contribute to sustainable development and corporate responsibility by working in alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), and integrating them into our research, teaching, operations and collaboration with stakeholders.
• UN Sustainability Goals (SDG) and the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) will be the framework for our research, teaching as well as in-house operations.

BI’s two most recent PRME SIP reports have received awards for excellence:

• The BI PRME SIP 2020–2022 report was recognised by PRME for Excellence in Reporting in 2023.
• In June 2021, BI received an award from PRME for its 2018–2020 SIP report (PDF).

All five of BI’s PRME SIP reports, published since 2016, are available on the PRME portal.

BI is committed to realising UN sustainability goals (SDGs) through offering quality education to our students. This entails focus on all the 17 UN SDGs into research and programmes, where relevant.

In our operations, including employment, running facilities, supply chain management and consumption, special focus will be on Goal 5: Gender equality and Goal 13: Climate Action, where we can make significant impact. In addition, BI supports many more of the 17 SDGs in our operations.