United Nations publishes EADA's sustainability actions on its website
EADA’s 2013-15 sustainability report has been published on the United Nations Global Compact website and can be accessed by any person or body that wishes to consult it. The publication of the report not only ratifies the business school’s commitment to transparency and socially responsible initiatives but also its compliance with the Ten Principles of the Global Compact. These are ten universally accepted principles aimed to promote Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the areas of human rights, labour regulations, the environment, the fight against corruption and business strategy in the company. With over 12,000 signatory bodies from over 145 countries, it constitutes the largest voluntary CSR initiative in the world.
Commitment through education and as a foundation
EADA’s sustainability report features its CSR strategy in education initiatives as well as its CSR actions as a university foundation. As regards the first aspect –the educational part–, the report outlines the subjects, courses and specific modules that include CSR on all the training programmes –both the Executive programmes as well as the MBA’s–. “EADA believes in comprehensive and holistic training of professionally competent people and holistic training of professionally competent and socially responsible people”, states Giorgia Miotto, EADA’s External Relations and Communication Manager and a member of the executive committee of the United Nations Global Compact since 2012. She explains that “on each of our training programmes we teach contents, use cases and generate debate with the objective of training our participants around social responsibility and sustainability issues”.
Furthermore, as a foundation, EADA is involved in numerous CSR initiatives which have a great impact on society. These collaborations fall into three categories: dissemination –the spreading and sharing knowledge produced by faculty–, building social awareness –collaborating on solidarity projects and acting as a sounding board to make society aware about relevant social and environmental issues– and social action –EADA wants to set an example for other organisations through its commitments with CSR initiatives.