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Why SCF? The objective of the Sustainability Challenge Foundation (SCF) is to provide training and assistance to the various parties involved in sustainable development worldwide. These include senior representatives from the public, private and non-profit sectors. SCF Programmes focus on conflict management, and demonstrate ways to discover common interests behind the apparently contrasting demands of economic development and environmental protection. News
17TH INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME ON THE MANAGEMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY THE NETHERLANDS, 13 - 20 JUNE 2010 Background The Sustainability Challenge Foundation (SCF) is an international Non-Governmental Organisation registered in the Netherlands. It was established in 1994 by a number of prominent individuals who had been closely involved with the organisation of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro. UNCED demonstrated that important cultural changes are taking place in the public perception of sustainability. In order to implement the concept of sustainability major challenges have to be faced. New skills and new institutional structures are required. It is with this goal in mind that the Foundation decided to create an annual executive programme, the International Programme on the Management of Sustainability (IPMS), designed to attract individuals from around the world working at a senior executive level on problems of sustainability. The results of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg have shown that after more than 10 years there is still an enormous need for training and capacity building in consensus building for sustainable development. SCF is the only organisation in the world dedicated exclusively to this purpose. International Programme on the Management of Sustainability The International Programme on the Management of Sustainability (IPMS) is a 7-day executive seminar for senior officials from the public, private and non-profit sectors about strategies to meet the challenges of sustainability. The Programme is held each year in June in the Netherlands. The objective of the IPMS is to train participants in the techniques of multilateral dialogue to resolve the conflicts that arise in the context of implementing sustainable development. The IPMS teaches a mutual gains approach to negotiation. On the basis of role-playing exercises, lectures and discussion groups an integration of theory and practice is achieved that enables a dynamic, interactive learning process. The Programme fee for the 2010 class is set on € 6.300. |