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Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare​


The Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare​ aims to provide you with a strong foundation in sustainability management, in addition to understanding of the benefits of circular bioeconomy. Obtain the tools needed to lead and transform existing businesses, the creation of sustainable products, and the implementation of sustainable development goals.

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Formula Executive
Method On campus e Online
Language Italian
Start Date October 2024
Enrollment 82%
Available seats 6
Scholarship valid until October 11th
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Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare​ Overview

In the first module of the Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare you will acquire a core knowledge of general management, leading to an in-depth focus of  sustainability and circular bioeconomy management.  You will learn how to rethink businesses, create value, understand the principles and benefits of sustainability and circular bioeconomy management. In addition to the physical dimensions of sustainability, the scope of smart cities, renewable energy, as well as an understand of financing requests.

The Master is taught entirely in Italian.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Acquire fundamental skills in efficient resource management within an integrated cycle perspective, with a particular focus on waste, water, energy, and ecosystem services sectors.
  2. Define effective strategies for challenges posed by circular bioeconomy, adopting a managerial approach oriented towards circular and efficient resource management.
  3. Identify key concepts of ongoing economic transitions: circularity, energy transition, decarbonization, and their geopolitical, social, and environmental implications.
  4. Critically analyze current scenarios of the green economy, energy, and resource geopolitics, with special attention to eco-sustainability and responsible land use.

Shape your professional path through 4 pillars:

True link with companies

An international network of partner companies that will directly impact the students academic experience through the Business Practice LAB, Company visits, in class exercises and exclusive lecturers that will approach the theoretical contents of the master to the current professional reality.

Internationality

Rome Business School is proudly the most international business school in Italy. Everyday we are capable to immerse our students in a stimulating environment, thanks to our international faculty. our class with mixed ethnicity and our exclusive experience: Bootcamps. Students will have the opportunity to participate in bootcamps in Silicon Valley, Barcelona, Paris, Qatar, Lagos, Rome and Tuscany.

Professional Impact

Our goal is to have a true impact on our students professional career, both through the academic and through our Career Services. In addition to the lectures, our Masters provide different services to build our students profile through a structured Career Services, company meetings from top international companies, Company Shadowing or Individual Coaching sessions and a soft skills programs.

Higher Purpose

Following our motto, Better Managers for a Better World, we believe in managers that build businesses with a higher purpose. For that, we will train leaders to be responsible and innovative, and to drive change in society starting within their own companies.

5 reasons why to choose our Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare​

Career Impact

36% salary increase, one year after completing the Master in Sustainability and Circular Bioeconomy.

Under the patronage of CNR & RES4Africa​

  • The Master is under the patronage of CNR and RES4AFRICA, which are active partners in the implementation of the Master through:
  • Content design​
  • Guest lectures and teaching​
  • Business practice labs​
  • Company visits​
  • Internship and job opportunities

Gain international experience.

10 international bootcamps on 4 continents. International bootcamps in Rome, Silicon Valley, Paris, Tuscany, Barcelona, Qatar, and Lagos (Nigeria), London, China, Grand Tour Italy: you will have an immersive and stimulating experience, focused on business topics.

Includes an Elective Course as an introduction to the preparation for E.G.E.

Students can choose the introduction to exam preparation as an elective course, following the established criteria to obtain the E.G.E. Energy Management Expert certification.

Business in Action

  • 2 experiential visits - among the possible destinations: ​
  • Centro Sviluppo Materiali (CSM) by RINA​
  • CASACCIA Research Center of ENEA​
  • Kyoto Club​
  • CREA - Council for Agricultural Research and Economics

Among our partners

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Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare:

In this program, students gain insight into the management aspects of the sustainability and circular bio-economy industry, with valuable exposure to industry professionals and companies. They participate in experiential visits, such as trips to research centers and organizations focused on sustainability and renewable energy. Additionally, students learn to develop environmental projects, access EU funds, and create value-driven business models through the Business Canvas Model.

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During the first module of the Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare​, students will learn how to:

  • Managerial Economics
    This module aims to prepare students by providing them with the essentials of entrepreneurship and business planning.
  • Entrepreneurship and Business Planning
    With this module, the managerial skills required to understand a Business Plan and its structure will be developed.
  • Business Strategy
    Through this module, students will know how to understand the long-term direction and strategy of a company, and will be able to identify the strategic business units of organizations.
  • Accounting & Budgeting
    This module is aimed at students understanding the importance of financial management and control principles, with key indicators such as ROI, EBIT, GAAP.
  • Project & Operations Management
    With this module, students can manage projects, examine data and information, and have a diagnostic approach to solving problems.
  • Marketing: Traditional and Digital
    Students will learn the application of marketing principles in organizational decision-making.
  • Human Resource Management
    This subject area focuses on strategic human resource issues such as workforce acquisition, development, motivation, and retention.
  • Data Analytics ​for Managers
    This course is designed to equip students with the basic knowledge needed to analyze and interpret large sets of data, to make effective business decisions and strategies.

During the second module of the Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare, students will learn how to:

1) Integrated Sustainability Management:

  • Historical overview of climate change science: towards ecological transition and future scenarios 2030-2050
  • Geopolitics of energy conflicts
  • Building a sustainable organization and Business Model Canvas
  • Sustainable mobility and related sector: new trends

2) Circular Bio-Economy:

  • Circular Bio-Economy, Energy Production, and Biodiversity Management
  • EU Fundraising and Financing within the European Circular Economy Strategy

3) Physical Dimensions of Sustainability (Environmental Management and Law):

  • Urban ecology and sustainable management of green areas and water resources.
  • Rural transformation and agriculture
  • International environmental law, policies, and regulations.

4) Climate Change Scenarios and Energy Transition:

  • Energy management (fundamental principles and systems) and energy lifecycle management.
  • Economics of renewable energy and energy-saving technologies.
  • Action plan for a joint UA-EU partnership funded by the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy (CCSE) initiative

During the third module of the Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare, students will learn how to:

5) Renewable Energy (RE) Integration: Technologies and Business Models:

  • Renewable energy technologies: towards a carbon-free society.
  • Sustainability and innovation in renewable energy technologies.
  • Renewable energy and energy transition in Africa and developing countries.
  • The water-food-energy nexus: from integrated approaches to innovative business models

6) Exploring the Future of Circular Bio-Economy:

  • Towards a bio-based economy in a sustainable society (case studies and best practices).
  • Innovation and sustainability in biomass energy production.
  • Corporate ethics and corporate social responsibility
5 Interactive courses to improve your soft skills

Future managers, business owners, and professionals who are prepared to take advantage of the advantages of digitalization, go global, and make a positive contribution to society are what Rome Business School seeks to develop.

  • By focusing on in-demand skills, electives are the perfect tools for students to increase their employability. ​
  • Students can become more competitive and carve out a niche for themselves with the help of electives.
  • Students are exposed to courses in electives that they might not have otherwise experienced.
  • A unique curriculum that promotes life and career skills is offered by electives. Five main areas of interest make up the organization of elective courses:
  1. ​Innovation & Growth
  2. Tech & Digitalization
  3. Industry Business Excellence
  4. International Business
  5. Preparation for Professional Certifications 
Skills to be competitive
  1. Individual Coaching
  2. Executive Mentoring production review of curricular material
  3. Company meetings with leading companies
  4. Executive Mentoring for preliminary orientation towards entrepreneurship
An educational experience

At the end of your educational experience, you will have the chance to prove your abilities by tackling a real business challenge. Use your talent to identify opportunities and create a truly innovative strategy.

Tackle a real company challenge. You can choose to be part of a small team and design an innovative plan or functional operational plan based on theoretical research.

Work on one of two real Business Challenges of a specific company.

Rome Business School International Bootcamps experiences

You will engage in a rigorous and comprehensively immersive business experience for the entire week, overcoming obstacles, interacting with managers, students, and lecturers, and developing your own project that will be presented at the conclusion of the Bootcamp Experience.

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Rome Business School International Bootcamps experiences

Change your life forever: discover where the World Technology was born and grown. From microprocessors to computers, from browser to social media, from sharing economy to crypto currencies.

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The challenge is how to combine creation and management in a luxury house as in all types of companies.

Sup de Luxe welcomes every year more than 500 students from all over the world. Since its creation, the school has enjoyed an undeniable success with its network of 3.500 graduates.

Develop a completely new business idea through the Google Ventures Methodology: The Design Sprint. How innovation and entrepreneurship are leading the change of the global market.

The aim is to mix together contents and network to become leaders in the strategy of your current or future company.

Experience Italy through a native person’s perspective by a cultural exploration and understanding of not only the process of winemaking, but mostly the convivial importance of food and wine.

Don’t miss the opportunity to learn how to do business, generate growth as a socially responsible leader and discover the giant of Africa.

Discover and develop unique opportunities to grow in a dynamic environment with a traditional yet modern approach to business.

Participating in a Bootcamp in London is an extraordinary experience that combines intensive and immersive learning in a urban environment rich in opportunities. The city itself is a melting pot of cultures and innovation, offering a vast network of professionals and leading companies. A Bootcamp in London allows you to gain cutting-edge skills in a cosmopolitan and stimulating atmosphere, preparing you for global work challenges and creating valuable connections for your professional future.

A Bootcamp in China is an extraordinary adventure that immerses you in a country rich in history, culture, and innovation. This intensive journey allows you to acquire top-notch skills, discover new professional perspectives, and create global connections in a setting where the ancient and the modern blend in a unique harmony. Participating in a Bootcamp in China is an extraordinary opportunity for personal and professional growth that will open up new horizons for you.

Faculty 

Rome Business School’s Executive Master in Art and Culture Management is taught by highly selected international university professors, trainers, and business managers drawn from a variety of operational and professional fields, from advertising to sales, from entrepreneurship to digital marketing. The teaching approach is oriented toward the acquisition of know-how in order to transfer skills that are truly useful for participants’ professional development. 

Eros Manzo

Program Director

Researcher/Technologist - International Cooperation and EU External Relations at National Research Council (CNR)

Eros Manzo has over 10 years of experience in managing International Development Projects, acquiring extensive knowledge of financing tools such as IPA, EDF, and ENPI. He has worked with international donors, including the World Bank and the United Nations, and has expertise in program/project cycle management. He has held key roles in various organizations, including IOM and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Currently, he works as a Project Director and Senior Project Manager at AGROTEC, managing projects in Turkey and the Middle East in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, rural development, environment, and migration. He is also a researcher/technologist at CNR-IIA, involved in scientific research and technical development in the areas of air quality and energy transition. His research interests include the impact of environmental pollution on ecosystems at a geographic level.

MASSIMO MARCIANI (2)
Massimo Marciani Founder & Chairman at FIT Consulting and Freight Leaders Council World Road Association National Road Freight chair

Massimo started as Researcher at TMT Pragma, where he then became Technical Director. Later he worked as Managing Director at Scheidt & Bachmann, one of the world market leaders in innovative system solutions for mobile living. In 2014 he became Co-Director of the Master in Sustainable Mobility at the Link Campus University. Currently he is President Freight Transport WG B4 at World Road Association of Toll Motorways. He is also Member of the Scientific Committee at SOS-LOGistica and at OITA Italia. For 26 years he has been Chairman at FIT Consulting, working as a transport expert for the European Commission, the Italian Ministry and other authorities. He has also been Chairman & Founder at Freight Leaders Council for 4 years. Plus, he is General Secretary and Scientific Technical Committee Coordinator at Observatory T.C.R.

FABIO SLAVIERO (1)
Fabio Slaviero President and CEO at BIZVY

Fabio has over 30 years of experience. He started as a Technical Support Manager and Product Manager at AISoftware Spa (now Exprivia). He was then Co-Founder and General Manager of Questar. He was also Country Manager at HAHT Commerce Inc (now OpenText), International Business Expert for AVEPA and for AGEA, and Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Archimede srl. In 2000 he Co-Founded Cooperativa Scripta Scrl. Just as well he was Co-Founder and CEO of RedLake Srl and of eSolutions Group Srl. Furthermore, he was International Business Developer and Product Manager at ABACO and International Business Professional at UNDP. Nowadays he is Co-Founder and Deputy President of LSStudio, Independent Business Professional and President and CEO at BIZVY, a consulting company supporting the growth of public and private companies by selecting the financing opportunities that best suit their strategies and policies.

ALESSIO D'AMATO
Alessio D'Amato Associate Professor of Economic Policy

Alessio is Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome Tor Vergata. He is a Member of the SEEDS inter-university research center, as well as President (for the two-year period 2022-23) of the Italian Association of Economists of the Environment and Natural Resources (IAERE). His main areas of interest are determinants of environmental behavior, eco-innovation, economics and environmental policy.

Francesco Petraccl
Francesco Petracchini CNR –IIA - Director

Director of the CNR –IIA is an environmental engineer with a PhD in environmental sciences, he is an expert in air pollution and the management of national and international research projects. He has recently organized an electric zero-emission trip in Italy to discover excellence in the field of renewable energy sources and sustainable mobility. In 2014, he organized the CleanWeb Hackathon Rome for the development of apps related to energy environment and mobility.

VALERIO PAOLINI
Valerio Paolini Researcher at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

With a PhD in Chemistry, Valerio has been working as a Researcher at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) for over 10 years, working on research projects and scientific consultancy for the environmental sustainability of biofuels and the recovery of resources in the circular economy. His research field includes the impact of bioenergy and renewable fuels on the atmosphere, with particular attention to biomethane. Other areas of interest include sustainable mobility and recovery of resources from by-products.

ROBERTA MONTESANO
Roberta Montesano Climate Change and Sustainability Engineer at RINA

With a Master in Energetic Engineering, Roberta started as a HVAC Project Engineer at Gnosis Progetti. Later she worked in Energy Efficiency Industry & Decarbonization at ENGIE Italia, and then in Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy at a2a. Currently she is Climate Change and Sustainability Engineer at RINA, a multinational company committed to simplifying complexities with a focus on energy transition, ESG and digitalization. There, she deals with energy audit and assessment for industrial plants and O&G onshore and off-shore sites.

ANDREA MICANGELI
Andrea Micangeli Regional Director at the National Academy of Engineering

With a PhD in Energy and Environment, Andrea is Regional Director at the National Academy of Engineering. He is adj Associate Professor at the State University of New York (from 2016) and University of Rome-Sapienza (from 2001). His research, didactic and development works are based on Energy Community and Renewable EnergyMini Grid, within the Grand Challeges Scholars Program, through the “Field Study Abroad”, and “Micro Grid Academy” experiences. He is the European Director of the "Grand Challenges for Engineering (GCSP)" launched by the US National Academy of Engineering. In 30 years of Renewable Energy activities, he realized more than 80 PPP programs and involved >600 students in Rural Mini Grids. He Co-founded the FS4MGO "Field Study for Mini Grid Optimization" Research-Group, dealing with models and optimization of renewable energy mini-grids.

STEFANO SIMONCINI
Stefano Simoncini Research Fellow in Territorial Planning at the University of Molise

Stefano Simoncini is a Research Fellow in Territorial Planning at the University of Molise. After a Specialization in Modern History at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, he obtained a PhD in Urban Studies at La Sapienza. He dealt with the history of the city and culture in the modern era, later turning to the study of contemporary urban and social transformations, in particular the relationship between ICT, society and the territory. With a collective of activists and researchers he is developing a collaborative mapping project on Rome.

Your Mentors

Corporate Advisory Board

By becoming a key player in the Quality Assurance Process, the process of continuous improvement of the Rome Business School’s range of Management Training programs, the Corporate Advisory Board embodies the spirit of collaboration between the academic world and the real management sphere.

Composed of 103 Leaders, Managers, and Professionals from key areas of National and International Businesses, Rome Business School activates a process of continuously updating its training programmes through the Corporate Advisory Board, relying on numerous business interactions and inputs provided by the committee members in the annual meetings and discussions with the school.

CAB

103 Members
14 CEO and General Management
16 Operations

Career and Entrepreneurship Services

Throughout your Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolareyou will be accompanied and supported by our Career Services team. With over 10 years’ experience in education, we help young talents and managers to build their future, guiding them along the path that best suits their capabilities, desires and professional goals.  

To give our students the best support achieving their professional objectives, we’ve structured our Career Service into two core areas: 

The master is particularly suitable for those who want to pursue a career in the following roles:

  • Head of Sustainability, Energy, and Innovation at leading companies in both the public and private sectors
  • Consulting agencies
  • International organizations and NGOs​
  • Circular economy manager​
  • Entrepreneur in the green business sector​
  • Sustainable business consultant

Admission process

Rome Business School works hard to maintain the highest standard of quality in the programs we offer. That’s why, in order to ensure the eligibility of the candidates, all applicants must undergo and successfully pass a selection process structured as follows:

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Evaluation of credentials
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Application Confirmation
3
Selection Interview
4
Admission
Enrollment

The admission process is aimed to verify the candidate’s eligibility to attend the Executive Master Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare​. The candidate’s academic history, previous experiences in the topics covered in the Master and motivation will be matters of the evaluation. Once it’s sent, the application will be evaluated by the Rome Business School’s academic committee. In order to ensure the application’s suitability, it is important to deliver all of the required documentation.

Executive Master in Sostenibilità ed Economia Circolare​: Financial Aid and Tuition

Fee

Payment of the participation fee of € 8,900 can be made in the following ways:

  • Installments from moments of enrollment (earlier enrollment for more installments)
  • Full Payment with an additional discount of -10%

Scholarships

Based on their personal profile, experience and proven motivation, the candidate may be awarded a scholarship to partially cover the participation fee. In fact, Rome Business School offers the most deserving candidates the opportunity to benefit from 7 different types of scholarships. These partial economic hedges can consist of 6 months of interest-free financing.

  • Early Bird Enrollment Scholarship.
  • Lifelong Learning Scholarship.
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship.
  • Academic Excellence Scholarship.
  • Entrepreneurial Grant.
  • Better Managers for a Better World Scholarship.
  • Student Loan Assistance Grant.

Competition for scholarships increases as the starting date approaches and funds are limited, so it is advisable to apply as soon as possible. 

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