Duration: 18 hours

The programme will be delivered entirely online in three days in one week. It will include 18 lecture hours (45 minutes) – 6 hours per day, delivered between 13:00 and 18:00. There will be 4 hours of lectures and 2 hours of practical exercises per day.

27-28-29.05.2026 г. 6 hours a day (from 13:00 to 18:00) 

Form of delivery: online via

Course price: 115.00 EUR

BCCI members get a 25% discount on the price

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Abstract

The course is part of the ENGAGE.EU initiative and is offered by the IPS at the UNWE with the participation of lecturers from UNWE, Tilburg University, Ramon Llull University – Barcelona and includes online educational materials of Vienna University of Economics and Business. The goal of the course is to introduce entrepreneurs from different stages of their business development, as well as managers and management consultants, to the opportunities for starting and growing an environmentally friendly business, on the one hand, and to the role and importance of impact reporting tools for the success of such a business, on the other.

The focus of the training will be on justifying the need to implementation of the impact reporting in entrepreneurial practice and its role as a tool for achieving long-term competitive advantage.

The training will cover the known foundations on which frameworks, regulations, approaches and tools for impact reporting are built, all of which is considered in the context of sustainable entrepreneurship.

The last day focuses on translating impact reporting into concrete strategic action. Participants move from understanding reporting frameworks to designing actionable impact plans and developing a Theory of Change that links actions to measurable outcomes when operating in a European context.

The program is aimed primarily at entrepreneurs and managers of start-ups and growing ventures who are aware of the importance of the environmental sustainability of their products and technological processes as a competitive advantage and would like to prove to their clients and partners their real concern for the environment. In addition to them, the course will be suitable for management consultants, whose services will be used by entrepreneurs and managers striving to work according to high environmental sustainability standards.

Proficiency in English language is required.

 

Curriculum

Module 1: Understanding entrepreneurship: seminal concepts and evolution

Module 2: Entrepreneurship and sustainable development: challenges, opportunities and regulations

Module 3: Pathways to sustainable entrepreneurship

Module 4: System thinking, product design and eco-innovation

Module 5: Triple bottom line accounting

Module 6: UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Module 7: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

Module 8: Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)

Module 9: From Impact Business Model to Impact Action Plan

Module 10: Building a Theory of Change

Main learning outcomes

• To know, plan and manage the process of creating and growing sustainable enterprises;
• To present the latest achievements in entrepreneurial management and consulting in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship;
• To form knowledge and skills among programme participants about the role of impact reporting in creating and managing an environmentally sustainable business;
• To understand and use different approaches and tools for the impact reporting by the green entrepreneur's relationships with key stakeholders: customers, partners and key collaborators;
• To understand and implement the processes of the impact reporting of the activities of a newly established and growing sustainable enterprise in an environment with growing environmental challenges;
• To know how to develop a concrete Impact Action Plan including:
  • Selected impact topic
  • Strategic objective
  • Key actions to be implemented
  • Expected short- and mid-term results
• To learn a structured Theory of Change including:
  • Defined activities (from the Impact Action Plan)
  • Concrete outputs
  • Measurable outcomes
  • Long-term impact ambition
  • Linked indicators for measurement
  • First outlines of Impact Report

Certification

Participants will receive a certificate of participation.

For further information and registration:  Diliyana Ivanova , phone: 088 433 8813,
е-mail: d.ivanova@ips.bg

Lecturers

Day 1 – Sustainable Entrepreneurship (4 modules)

Dr. Cristina Alonso Alija & Dr. Kostadin Kolarov

Day 2 – Impact Reporting (4 modules)

Dr. Kostadin Kolarov, Dr. Daniela Tsvetkova & Ivan Dimitrov

Day 3 – From Impact Reporting to Impact Strategy (2 modules)

Kerry Forrester, MSc & Dirk van den Berg


Teachers BIOs

Cristina Alonso Alija (Day 1)

Cristina’s career has been guided by her passion to translate science into a benefit for society. She believes that transparency, innovation and science are essential for progress, and progress can only be achieved in collaboration.
She is a Chemical Engineer and a Chemist by training and holds a PhD at IQS in organic chemistry, followed by a postdoc in the United States.
An executive leader with more than 25 years of experience in the private sector, she has worked and lived in several countries in Europe and the Americas. She was Global SVP for Sustainability, Safety, Health and Environment of the Bayer group and the first ever Human Rights Officer of the company. Today she is the Director of the UNIJES
(the five Jesuit Universities in Spain) Reference Research Center for
Environment and Ecology, seeking to amplify the impact of the Universities in Sustainability. She is a Business Angel commmitted to startups in the climate tech and sustainability sector. She acts as senior advisor for sustainability and ESG and is a TÜV-certified Human Rights Officer.

Kostadin Kolarov (Day 1 and Day 2)

Kostadin Kolarov, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Management at the University of National and World Economy (UNWE), Sofia, Bulgaria, Director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship of the UNWE, and Head of Department of Entrepreneurship at the UNWE. He is also member of the Managing Board of the Bulgarian Association for Management Development and Entrepreneurship, with prominent interest in the current problems of management and entrepreneurship and their multicultural aspects; specialized in the UK, Spain and the Netherlands. He has significant experience in the field of entrepreneurial management and culture (incl. the topic of his PhD thesis), in developing business plans and projects as well as in training of entrepreneurs and managers in the frames of national and international projects. He participated in several EU funded research and educational projects covering different aspects of entrepreneurship.

In recent years, he coordinated couple of Summer Schools in Entrepreneurship specially designed for students from India.

Daniela Tzvetkova (Day 2)

Chief Ass. Prof. Daniela Tzvetkova, Ph.D., is lecturer at the Department of Entrepreneurship at the UNWE. Her fields of Research Interest are Intrapreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Social Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Tsvetkova has made scientific and applied contributions in the development of an methodology for studying the impact of intrapreneurship on motivation, as well as in the development of an original system of activities for increasing motivation through intrapreneurship, which has been tested within IBM Bulgaria.

Ivan Dimitrov (Day 2)

Ivan Dimitrov is currently the Chief Compliance Officer for a leading Scandinavian manufacturer of cargo handling solutions. With fifteen years of experience in the compliance field, he has led global teams and programs across Europe, Asia and the Americas, focusing on anti-corruption, third-party risk management, and human rights. His career includes key leadership roles in multinational corporations operating in the area of telecommunications and manufacturing, where he was responsible for developing and enforcing global compliance frameworks, conducting investigations, and managing whistleblowing systems. Ivan holds degrees in Law and Political Management, along

with several international certifications in compliance and ethics. He actively lectures on compliance-related topics at the University of National and World Economy.

Kerry Forrester (Day 3)

Kerry Forrester is a lecturer in the Department of Organization Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She holds an MSc in Global Management of Social Issues from Tilburg University (2021). Her teaching focuses on social entrepreneurship, hybrid organizations, and cross-sectoral partnerships.

Kerry’s research interests include social innovation, social entrepreneurship, and interorganizational relationships and networks for addressing social issues. In addition, she acts as a knowledge broker between Tilburg University and Startups for Society, supporting social entrepreneurship by connecting academic insights with practice.

Dirk van den Berg (Day 3)

Dirk van den Berg, MSc is a Business Developer Academic Entrepreneurship at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His drive for sustainable society is forward-looking and future-oriented. He believes that the people of tomorrow should still be able to enjoy the environment as we do. He finds ways to connect all the key players to solve the great challenges of the society by working together.

Institute for postgraduated studies bank account in euros:

UniCredit Bulbank

Banks BIC  - UNCRBGSF 

IBAN BG23UNCR76303100117207

Recipient: Institute for postgraduated studies at UNWE

Reason: Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Impact Reporting