Manuel Fischer
Profile
Manuel Fischer Leiter Nachhaltige Entwicklung
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Contact hours
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday morning
Thursday
Friday morning -
Address
Berner Fachhochschule
Champ thématiques stratégiques
Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Falkenplatz 16
3012 Bern
Activities
Responsibilities
Head Sustainable Development
Chair of the Comission on Sustainable Development
Lecturer and Research Associate at Institute Sustainable Business
Teaching
Degree programmes
BSc Business Administration
BSc International Business Administration
BFH diagonal
MSc Circular Innovation and Sustainability
CAS Hochschuldidaktik
CAS Nachhaltige Ernährung
Subjects
Sustainable Development
Social Innovation
Bildung für Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Campus Climate Action
Sustainability Reporting
Service Learning
Research
Specialisations
Sustainable Development
Education for Sustainable Development
Social Innovation
Focus areas
Service Learning
Transformative Learning
Societal Transformation
Sustainability Management
Social Entrepreneurship
CV
Professional experience
- 08/2022 - ongoing Head Sustainable Development University of Applied Sciences BFH
- 04/2014 - 07/2022 Lecturer and Research Associate Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH
- 4/2013 - 09/2013 Research Assistant Department of Human Geography Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- 01/2010 - 09/2013 Teaching Assistant Micro- and Macro Economics Department of Economics Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- 08/2006 - 08/2007 Head of Teaching Staff and Class Teacher Stegehus Therapeutic Boarding School, Vikbolandet, Sweden
- 08/2004 - 07/2006 Social Pedagogue and Teacher Läkepedagogiska Institut Mikaelgarden, Järna, Sweden
- 08/2003 - 07/2004 Class Teacher Primarschule Laupen, Zürich, Switzerland
Education
- 08/2010 - 10/2012 Interdisciplinary Master’s Programme in Globalization, Environment and Social Change; M. Sc. in Geography Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- 08/2007 - 06/2010 B.Sc in Urban and Regional Planning Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- 08/2007 - 01/2010 B.Sc. in Economics Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- 08/1998 - 06/2003 Elementary School Teacher Certification Kant. Lehrer- und Lehrerinnenseminar, Rorschach, Switzerland
Other
- 2011: Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India: Summer course ‘Approaching the Environment in India: New Theories and Methods in the Study of the Nature-Society-Economy Interface’ (10 ECTS)
- 2011 - 2014: Board member of Föreningen SOFIA (Swedish organization for international initiatives for sustainable development)
- 2012: Geographical and Sociological Fieldwork in the Kerio Valley (Rift Valley Province) and Nairobi, Kenya
Projects
Memberships
Internal memberships
Comission on Sustainable Development
Institute Sustainable Business - Fachgruppe Social Innovation
Language skills and intercultural knowledge
Language skills
- German - Native or bilingual proficiency
- Swedish - Native or bilingual proficiency
- English - Professional working proficiency
- French - Limited working proficiency
Intercultural knowledge
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- Kenya