Project Course in Corporate Social Responsibility and Humanitarian Logistics

Course aim: The aim of the 10 ECTS course is to immerse students in questions related to social and environmental responsibility by using, analysing, and solving real-world problems provided by case organisations.  

During the course students work in groups of 3-4 persons with a project for an organisation involving 200h of work per student (100h for delivering the project to the organisation, 100h for the academic part, including contact hours, presentations, and the final report). Organised annually by CCR, this course offers students valuable work experience and insights into CSR and humanitarian logistics.

The course has been running for eleven years now and many companies and NGOs have participated over the years. The collaboration has proved to be quite fruitful for both students and the organisations based on the feedback we receive, and we are sure that it will continue to be so.

You can see our past news about the project course here.

The project course is aimed at master’s level and Corporate Responsibility (CR) Module students who already have knowledge of CSR and belong to a mixed cohort ensuring diversity in background, knowledge, and education. The CR Module is a 2-year study module offered to a group of 40 external participants including students and working professionals.

The next course takes place from 21 January- 7 May, 2025. For organisations, participating in the course would entail: 

• Developing a project brief that would give value to your organisation and that is in line with the course aim and intended workload for students (we can have a call about this and help you develop the brief if you want). The project brief will be checked by the course examinator to make sure that the scoping fits with the course workload.  
• Presenting your organisation and the project at the kickoff session for the course in January (takes 30 min) 
• Being present and giving feedback to students at the final presentation session in May, where they present their findings (takes 30 min).  
• Providing the student group with access to necessary resources (depending on the nature of the project) and giving guidance on their work. This is where the time demanded can vary depending on the project in question. Students usually work very independently throughout the course, but we encourage that the contact(s) from the organisation should have 4 meetings (at a minimum) with the student group throughout the project between January and May. 
• Filling out a feedback form at the end of the course (takes about 5-10min). 

At the end of the course, organisations will be provided with the final report for the project. More information about the course and important timelines:

If you have a case or project related to social and/or environmental responsibility or humanitarian logistics and would like our students to assist with it, please let us know at prme@hanken.fi latest by 25.10.2024.