“Your world, your business”
From the DG Enterprise and Industry website:
YOUR WORLD, YOUR BUSINESS is a collaborative partnership between the European Commission and Junior Achievement-Young Enterprise. It promotes European policy objectives in the areas of corporate social responsibility and entrepreneurship education.
YOUR WORLD, YOUR BUSINESS initiative aims to inspire young people “to become the kind of entrepreneurs our society increasingly [...]
Grants for CSR research
1. EASY ECO Conference 2009
“Stakeholder Perspectives in Evaluating Sustainable Development”, Budapest, 16-18 October, 2009.
EU-Grants are available for young researchers (with less than ten years research experience) to cover all costs (travel expenses, participation [...]
The Justmeans CSR and Social Media Summer Internship
Justmeans is recruiting a cohort of CSR and Social Media Summer Interns for the summer of 2009. Applicants should be enrolled in, or have just completed an MBA program and have an interest in sustainability, social enterprise, corporate social responsibility and responsible investing.
Applicants will answer one of the following two questions reflecting their philosophy [...]
CSR-pedia
CSR-pedia is a website that categorizes, catalogs, and describes corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs developed by companies to help solve social and environmental problems around the world.
The two main features of this website are a CSR Program Directory, and a Socially Responsible Business List.
In the CSR Program Directory, each socially responsible and/or environmentally sustainable activity [...]
Read:)
Do you want to know more about CSR?
I can give you some suggestions:)
1. Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility edited by Idowu Samuel O. and Leal Filho, Walter and published by Springer.
In the 21 chapters of the book, the authors try to answer questions like: Which issues fall under the umbrella of CSR in each [...]
CSR TUBE
I came across a new initiative aimed at sharing information on CSR issues.
CSR TUBE is an initiative of the Dutch MVO Platform (CSR Platform) and lokaalmondiaal. CSRtube is inspired by The Hub, created by Witness, which reports on human rights abuses worldwide.
“The aim of CSRtube is to increase the impact of the work of civil [...]
The European Commission is investigating the relationship between CSR and competitiveness
I have presented in a previous post the recent initiatives co-financed by the European Commission aimed at investigating the relationship between CSR and competitiveness. On November, 28, the European Commission has published a Communication on the European Competitiveness Report 2008.
The European Commission analyses in chapter 4.2. the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on firms’ competitiveness. [...]
I have enjoyed reading:)
1. “Can We Agree on What Really Matters?” by Jeffrey Hollender.
2. Issues arising for Corporate Responsibility due to International Developments by Jem Bendell.
3. “Can CSR Make Us Happy?” by Wayne Visser.
4.“Global Compact companies embroiled in OECD Guidelines complaints” by “Global Compact Critics”.
5.“Just doing my job” by Seth Godin.
The European Union finances CSR initiatives
In November 2008, the European Commission announced co-financing for initiatives to support CSR in three industries: textiles, chemicals and construction. The aim of the initiative is to provide evidence of to whether and how CSR can be a driver for competitiveness in various industries .SMEs are the main target group.
The aim of the “PRISME2 project” [...]
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