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Beyond the Bottle: Creating Impact Through Customer Partnership

Beyond the Bottle: Creating Impact Through Customer Partnership

How might we turn everyday business relationships into powerful forces for environmental and social good?
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Our Challenge

According to Euromonitor’s 2024 Voice of the Consumer: Sustainability survey, 45% of global consumers actively try to make a positive environmental impact through everyday actions. They increasingly expect companies to enable their sustainable lifestyles. Yet, sustainability alone isn’t enough. Today’s consumers demand products and partnerships that blend environmental and social benefits with quality, transparency, and everyday value. This challenge invites you to respond to that call by designing a customer partnership project between Coca-Cola HBC Lithuania and a Lithuanian business client that creates real, measurable value for society or the environment, without involving NGOs. You are expected to propose a creative and actionable idea that reflects modern consumer expectations and corporate responsibility trends. Developed partnership concept should be focused on positive societal impact, define the measurable outcomes of your idea, and explain how success will be evaluated. This is your chance to work at the intersection of business strategy, sustainability, and social change and contribute to reimagining what responsible collaboration looks like in 2025.

The Team

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Benas Gabrielis Urbonavičius
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Inga Stasiulaitienė
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Study format
Online
Application period
15 June – 23 September 2025
Study period
9 October – 18 December 2025
Credits
6 ECTS
Hosting university
Kaunas University of Technology
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Learning outcomes

Pinpoint research direction

Self-sufficiently pinpoint a unique and impactful research direction, utilizing existing knowledge and acquired competencies.

ESCO SKILLS

Tackle real-world issues

Innovatively tackle complex real-world issues using the core tenets of challenge-based learning methodology.

ESCO SKILLS

Utilise teamwork and leadership principles

Utilise effective teamwork and leadership principles while collaborating within diverse, interdisciplinary teams.

ESCO SKILLS

Create and present ideas and prototypes

Create and effectively present innovative ideas and developed prototypes tailored to the requirements of unique audience.

ESCO SKILLS

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Information

At Coca-Cola HBC, sustainability is a key pillar of long-term success, which is why minimising our impact on the environment is part of our business strategy. Being a global beverage leader, we’ve already taken steps toward more sustainable operations, but we know that true progress requires collaboration beyond our own walls. That’s why we’re launching this challenge—to inspire fresh thinking and build meaningful partnerships with our customers that can drive real social or environmental impact. 

This challenge invites students to create a practical, socially responsible partnership between Coca-Cola HBC Lithuania and a Lithuanian-based customer, with no NGOs involved. The aim is to design a project that delivers tangible value to society or the environment while aligning with core business goals. Through this experience, students will gain valuable skills in sustainability strategy, project planning, budgeting, communications, and impact measurement.

Hosting university

Kaunas University of Technology

Kaunas University of Technology

Challenge provider

Coca-Cola HBC Lithuania