IATA, Swiss University Launch Enviro Training

Together with the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched an environmental sustainability training program.

The six-module course (including Sustainable Aviation Fuels and Carbon Markets topics) is designed to address both individual actions and overall company policies affecting sustainability. Participants will learn to identify a set of measures which can be implemented to improve sustainability in the short, medium, and long-term. The program also blends the environmental-specific courses with corporate social responsibility, organizational ethics and responsible leadership, with the aim of allowing participants to find their own answers to what ‘leading responsibly’ means at their workplace and how to engage in responsible decision making and avoid ethical blindness.

Courses are delivered through live virtual classrooms, providing real-time interactive instructor-led online learning.

In a recent IATA ‘Aviation Workforce Skills & Training Report’ survey of more than 800 industry training professionals, sustainability was identified as a top training need. Other key findings in the report show 50% of learning and development decision-makers consider an assessment of their organizations’ skills and competence requirements as of high importance to business continuity. Additionally, 85% of organizations indicate that online learning, including virtual classrooms, will play an important role in recovery plans.