Member News
Panasonic employees work with Pump Aid in Malawi
Talent for Tomorrow (TfT) is a two year development programme for Panasonic employees below management level based in Europe. As part of this programme, participants complete a six month corporate social responsibility (CSR) project working with a charity or social enterprise. Since July 2009, Nicole Monleon of PME and Greg Clark of PMUK have been working with Pump Aid, a leading water and sanitation charity which operates in rural Zimbabwe and Malawi. Pump Aid developed a simple and effective water pump at very low cost, called the Elephant Pump which has been built in response to and in co-operation with local communities in Africa… Read more
26 October 2009
Forética participates in the EU, Latin America and Caribbean Summit
The Second Summit of EU, Latin America and Caribbean under the title "Responsibility and Competitiveness" will be held on 28 and 29 October and is organized by the German CSR organization Went Capacity Building International in cooperation with the Economic Cooperation and Development Ministry of Germany and the Labor Ministry of Argentina. Foretica will participate in a roundtable about distinct CSR actors and their roles. Read more (Foretica, in Spanish)
23 October 2009
Alcatel-Lucent University-accredited Turkish knowledge center provides customer and employee learning in the region
Alcatel-Lucent has designated its Istanbul training center as an official location of Alcatel-Lucent University, one of 20 independently accredited learning centers around the globe. With the mission of making learning a competitive advantage, Alcatel-Lucent University enables customers, partners and employees to achieve their strategic business objectives. Alcatel-Lucent University's mission is to create a culture of innovation, providing learning interventions to initiate, drive and support change necessary for competing in today's evolving markets. Read more (Alcatel-Lucent)
22 October 2009
New IBM consulting service helps save environment and money
A new IBM consulting service can help clients develop methods to collect, manage and analyze supplier information for energy use, environmental impact, quality, safety, cost, efficiency, and labor practices. This offering draws on IBM's own experience running one of the largest, most complex supply chains in the world, including development of an expansive database covering 30,000 supplier locations in 60 countries to help collect and analyze data on a wide range of sustainability issues. This will allow clients to improve supply chain efficiency, lower costs, and reduce waste and environmental impact, and reporting sustainability information to business partners, regulators and other key stakeholders… Read more
22 October 2009
Volkswagen awards internal Environment prize for the sixth time
Volkswagen awarded the internal Environment prize for the sixth time following a Europe-wide tendering. The jury received 62 applications. Proactive innovations in the area of gear manufacturing, varnishing as well as refrigerant additives were among others awarded with prizes in the categories ‘production' and ‘product'. Günter Damme, Head of Environmental Affairs at Volkswagen, praised the extraordinary personal engagement of all participants. (Source: Volkswagen)
22 October 2009
Volkswagen presents latest Sustainability Report in Brussels
On 8 October 2009 Volkswagen presented its latest Sustainability Report 2009/2010 in the Representation of Lower Saxony in Brussels. Dr. Gerhard Prätorius, Volkswagen AG, Head of CSR and Sustainability, introduced the report and highlighted achievements like the certification of the report along the AccountAbility AA 1000 AS (2008) standard. Afterwards Dr. Thorsten Christen, EU Commission DG Employment, gave valuable insights in the Commission's perspective on CSR and on reporting activities… Read more
22 October 2009
The Dow Live Earth Run for Water 2010
The Dow Chemical Company has announced the Dow Live Earth Run for Water, a series of 6km run/walks, concerts and water education activities taking place around the world on April 18, 2010. It is the largest global initiative in history aimed at helping solve the water crisis and empowering everyone to be a part of the solution. The distance of the run/walks is meaningful - it's the average distance women and children in many impacted countries walk everyday to secure water. Jessica Biel, Alexandra Cousteau, Pete Wentz, Angelique Kidjo and Jenny Fletcher will lend their names and their time in support of this important cause… Read more
22 October 2009
Panasonic take top place in Car Free Challenge
Panasonic has won this year's Car Free Challenge at its first attempt. A quarter of its 355 staff, based in Willoughby Road, Bracknell, took up the challenge and shared lifts or left their cars at home on Friday, September 25. More than 2,000 local employees took part in the challenge.The council lays down the challenge each year to see which organisation can get the highest percentage of staff to travel to work using more sustainable modes of transport. The aim is to raise awareness and potential benefits of the travel options for people working in Bracknell Forest… Read more
21 October 2009
More than 100,000 young people benefit from HP´s GET-IT training courses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
HP EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) has unveiled some of the success stories so far that have underpinned the GET-IT graduate entrepreneurship programme in 2009. HP also announced that the programme will have involved 100 training centres and aims to reach approx. 100.000 graduates in 30 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa by the end of this year. The GET-IT programme launched in 2007 provides IT training to unemployed youth and graduates between the ages of 16 and 25, and helps potential entrepreneurs acquire IT skills with the aim of enabling them to become better placed to create and run their own businesses… Read more
21 October 2009
Focus on a partner: Slovak Business Leaders' Forum
Beata Hlavčáková, CSR Program Director of Slovak Business Leaders' Forum, discusses in this month's interview CSR trends, topics and awareness in Slovakia, and further talks about the role of education in promoting CSR. Read interview
21 October 2009
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