Educating sustainable change experts

Abstract

In September 2023, there were many excited UAS Lapland teachers looking forward to meeting the first-ever Master of Managing Sustainability and Systems Change (MaSS) –students in Rovaniemi (Fig. 1). After carefully designing of new Master’s program combining transformative learning with the themes of sustainable development, responsibility and circular economy (Circular Economy Centre, 2023), this was the day we all had waited for. Now, after a couple of months have passed by and MaSS studies are ongoing, we wanted to pull together our thoughts and experiences about the start of the MaSS learning journey.