CSR Europe News
CSR Europe launches call for best practices: promote your CSR best practices; learn from your peers!
Sharing best practices is an essential part of Enterprise 2020 and CSR Europe as a network of companies and national partners.In November, CSR Europe will be re-launching the best practice solutions database to the network and wider audiences. Your best practices will be profiled on the CSR Europe website, which receives over 20,000 visitors a month. Additionally, your submissions will also be used to inform collaborative projects and key stakeholders to demonstrate business’ approach to CSR challenges and opportunities… Read more
17 October 2011
CSR Europe attends European Commission Expert Group on CSR Reporting
The latest European Commission Expert group meeting on CSR reporting was held on 30 September 2011. During this meeting participants discussed the nature, content and scope of the potential legislation. Most experts agreed that the “comply or explain” approach would be more appropriate than a general reporting obligation. Group-based reporting for all large companies and all listed companies was agreed by most experts, but is still under debate. In order to avoid additional administrative burdens and ensure a sufficient degree of flexibility, some experts argued that a list of principles or issues would not be suitable… Read more
06 October 2011
CSR Europe seeks your input on ethical corporate governance
CSR Europe invites you to respond to a questionnaire to help us, as a business network, build knowledge on how you and your peers from across sectors are implementing and monitoring ethical corporate governance. Based on a member request by BNP Parisbas Fortis, we are seeking your qualitative feedback to 10 questions in order to draw on your insights regarding the main characteristics of ethical governance, the relationships to reputational risk and best practices in the application of codes of conduct… Read more
28 September 2011
Enterprise 2020 update: Collaborative Venture on Using Potential - Jointly Tackling Demographic Change in Europe
Concluding the series of interactive workshops, the final collaborative venture workshop will take place on the morning of Wednesday 19th October in London, hosted by Vodafone and Hitachi Europe. The workshop will focus on the situation in the UK and discussions will focus on how to better engage women, young people and older employees in the workforce. If you would like to attend please contact Abi Price, CSR Specialist, Hitachi Europe: abi.price@hitachi-eu.com.Download invitationThe outcomes of the workshops, company best practices and research by the collaborative venture working group will be included in a publication due to come out in early 2012… Read more
20 September 2011
CSR Europe welcomes UniCredit to the membership network
CSR Europe has the pleasure of welcoming UniCredit to our membership network. UniCredit is a leading European bank with an international network operating in 22 countries and spanning in 50 markets worldwide, with more than 160,000 employees and over 9,500 branches. UniCredit benefits from a strong European identity, extensive international presence and broad customer base. UniCredit has one of the largest banking networks in each of its three core Western European countries, Austria, Germany and Italy, and it is a market leader also in Central and Eastern Europe with a direct presence in 19 countries together with a broad network of over 3,800 branches… Read more
16 September 2011
Business for Society, Czech Republic, joins the CSR Europe National Partner Network
CSR Europe is pleased to welcome Business for Society, Czech Republic (Byznys pro společnost) to the National Partner Network of CSR Europe. Business for Society is a national business-led membership organization promoting sustainable and responsible business in the Czech Republic. It started its work as informal group of companies in 2009 and was formally registered in 2010. It associates multinational and Czech owned companies and its mission is to mobilise businesses for the better society and environment, improve the responsible business performance… Read more
06 September 2011
CSR Europe welcomes HUAWEI to the membership network
CSR Europe is delighted to announce that Huawei has joined the CSR Europe membership network. Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our key strength encompasses wireline, wireless and IP technologies, where we have gained a leading position in the All-IP convergence age. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 140 countries and serve 45 of the world's top 50 telecom operators, as well as one third of the world's population… Read more
03 August 2011
European Commission’s Expert Group on CSR Reporting and next meetings
On the 11th of July, CSR Europe was invited to participate in the Expert Group of the European Commission in view of preparing possible proposals for new initiatives and/or revised legislative measures on disclosure of non-financial information (CSR Reporting). Other Participating representatives included: BusinessEurope, UEAPME, Novo Nordisk (CSR Europe Board member), ICGN, Aviva Investor, ECCJ, PWC, VIGEO, IIRC, Eabis, GRI). CSR Europe had the opportunity to provide our members questions, inputs, concerns and proposals based on our EU update conference call (27 June with over 40 members), follow up e-mails from Titan, BASF, HP, Hitachi, as well as from CSR Europe’s response to the EC Public Consultation in January… Read more
28 July 2011
CSR Europe and members host Disruptive Innovation Seminar at the European Parliament
On 21 June 2011, Novartis together with CSR Europe, Vodafone and Rollback Malaria organised a seminar on “Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare Delivery” hosted by MEP Nirj Deva in the European Parliament in Brussels. This event took place in a context where for too long the Development Community has been overly reluctant in working with the private sector to help foster nation states and local communities that are both self-developing and self-sustainable. Jan Noterdaeme (CSR Europe) highlighted how businesses try to create value at the Base of the Pyramid (BOP)… Read more
27 July 2011
TTNET becomes first Turkish member to join the CSR Europe membership network
CSR Europe is delighted to welcome our first Turkish member, TTNET, to the membership network. Founded in 2006, TTNET was established with the ambition to connect the world to Turkey through the Internet. Today, TTNET is a leading company in both the communications and entertainment industries due to its wide range of corporate and individual services, which continue to offer customers current and future communication technologies. Incorporating the three basic components of communication technologies – voice, Internet, and TV - TTNET meets the complete range of communication requirements across Turkey with exclusive corporate, public, and individual solutions for education, entertainment, communication, and security industries… Read more
27 July 2011
