SEE Academy
Practical sustainability, taught by people who have built it.
Programmes for professionals, corporations and graduates, online and blended. The teaching draws on the engineers and specialists who built sustainable communities in this region, so the material survives contact with a real project.
The gap we are trying to close
Four problems come up in almost every conversation with a client.
- The understanding gap
- A fundamental lack of urgency about sustainability, which no amount of reporting fixes on its own.
- Theory against practice
- The distance between what academic work concludes and what an operation can implement next quarter.
- Partial mastery
- Teams who know their own domain well and have no map of the others they depend on.
- The net-zero problem
- Setting, pursuing and hitting a net-zero target while the business carries on running.
Food, energy, water, products, mobility, waste.
The six domains that decide whether an urban development is sustainable. Courses cover each one specifically instead of treating sustainability as a single subject, because in practice a water problem and a mobility problem need different people in the room.
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Five routes, depending on whether you are one person, a team, or an institution.
- Certification
- CPD accredited pathways, from a single Certificate of Achievement through to Certified Sustainability Expert.
- Bespoke corporate programmes
- Built for one organisation around its own sector, constraints and targets. Three vertical curricula are already written.
- International immersive
- Cohorts who come to Dubai and learn inside the net-zero building and the district around it.
- Mentorship
- One-to-one work with practitioners, for people carrying a sustainability mandate without a team behind them.
- Workshops, games and activities
- Short formats for schools, away days and delegations, including the immersive hall.
- Advanced and postgraduate study
- For people who already hold a higher degree. Supervision, joint research and advanced certification, handled directly by the relevant department.
Cohorts small enough to argue in.
Sessions are sized so the room can push back on the material. That matters more in sustainability than in most subjects, because the right answer usually depends on constraints only the people in the room know about.
Something missing?
The catalogue exists because people asked for the courses in it. If the training you need is not here, tell us and it goes into the queue for what we build next.
Suggest a courseStart with the target you have to hit.
Tell us the target and the deadline. We will point you at the shortest path, including the ones that are not ours.
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