Open Online Course
PRECIUS — the Procurement Educational Consortium for Innovation Sourcing Using Sustainability — is a free, Massive Open Online Course that helps professionals turn green intentions into measurable impact. The programme begins with a 1-ECTS Green Levers core module that grounds every learner in key sustainability principles, metrics, and regulations while showing how environmental and cost objectives can reinforce one another.
After this foundation, you craft your own “cafeteria-style” journey by choosing one or more 1-ECTS specialised tracks:
- Procurement – creative sourcing tools, performance-based contracting and supplier-engagement tactics for sustainable supply chains;
- Environmental Engineering – life-cycle assessment, technical risk analysis and design levers for scalable green solutions;
- Entrepreneurship for SMEs – co-creation, market-entry strategy and tender writing to bring sustainable innovations to public buyers.
Across the 4 ECTS course you will explore micro-lectures, expert interviews, quizzes, case studies and an always-open Canvas forum where procurement officers, engineers and entrepreneurs collaborate on real problems. By the end you will be able to align cost savings with environmental value, communicate across disciplines and steer systemic change inside your organisation.
Enrol and learn at your own pace, on any device.
MOOC is available on the Canvas platform here
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