Engage in CSR Laboratories

CSR Laboratories are business-driven and action-oriented projects which aim to address CSR challenges in and around the priority areas of the European Alliance for CSR. The objective of the CSR Laboratories is to bring together business practitioners, stakeholders and representatives of the European Union to share experience and explore joint operational projects.

See the CSR Laboratories Quick Guide for an overview of all Laboratories.

Innovation (includes B2B cooperation and alliances)

• Base of the pyramid
• Financial inclusion: Sustainable services for underserved potential customers
• R&D innovation networks with universities and SMEs
• Business' involvement to enhance social inclusion at local level
• Local engagement of commerce companies

Supporting entrepreneurship and SMEs

• Stimulating an entrepreneurial mindset and promoting entrepreneurship education

CSR in supply chain

• Responsible supply chain management

Employability

• Skills for employability
• Enhancing science teaching in schools
• Skills for employability enhanced through community engagement
• Recruitment and ethical management of foreign workers
• Demographic change

Diversity and equal opportunities

• Mainstreaming diversity in the company
• Equality for men and women
• Employment of people with disabilities

Working conditions, health and safety

• Wellbeing in the workplace

Climate change

• Eco-efficiency
• Environment and Financial Institutions
• Climate change

Proactive stakeholder engagement

• Proactive stakeholder engagement

Transparency and Communication

• Sectoral CSR Reporting
• Corporate responsibility and market valuation of financial and non-financial performance