Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Central Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Central Europe

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Environment and climate change; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

Given the cultural differences, economic situations and National legislations among the different EU countries, CSR implementation has reached different level of development, influencing greatly the provision of trainings in the companies and the provision of professional support by business consultant. One of the reasons for the increased level of interest is the participation of many western EU companies on CEE territories and the growing relations and economic interests, as observed by the partners.

The present proposal is aimed at finding the best education solution to formulate a curriculum for the production of a training in CSR, that can satisfy the needs of future participants especially the ones coming from Central and East Europe,. The proposed curriculum can offer them a better prospective on how sustainable and ethical organizations operate and to learn how to get enterprises interested in improve their CSR activities.
Such care for employees and customers by a company has a direct impact on employees’ productivity, company’s image and with a huge benefit on company’s competitiveness. By actively promoting social responsibility at all organizational levels, enterprises can significantly contribute to the European Union’s objectives of sustainable development and creation of the highly competitive social market economy.

The partners analysed different aspects and situations related to sustainable and socially responsible organization, ethical behaviours, and sustainable management of resources. Their aims has been to investigate the most appropriate learning approach to be applied for delivering training to managers, business consultants, government officials and other professionals responsible for implementing CSR activities or monitoring them.
During the project lifetime, both participants and stakeholders have been invited in taking part in different workshops to discuss the selected topics and assess the products as prepared by the partners.

Those are the results that that be sustained after the project conclusion
+Curriculum and Training Structure for Business Consultants and Managers
+Curriculum of Train the Trainer training: Leading CSR, Certified Program
+Engagement strategy to involve participants in the local workshops
For this reason, the project is expected to have a positive impact on the partners and on the participants as:
– Increase awareness on the importance of CSR method
– Improved quality of the work developed in the procedures of evaluation of the learning of the participants and their certification;
– Enlarged ability to use of simpler terminology, more interesting and engaging for target groups and stakeholders
-New and more engaging methodology and tools to implement the CSR oriented tasks and activities

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64886,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sustainable Development Management Institute & Country: FR

Project Partners

• MEDNARODNI CENTER ZA PRENOS ZNANJA DOO
• SZKOLA GLOWNA HANDLOWA W WARSZAWIE
• INSTITUT ZA DRUSTVENO ODGOVORNO POSLOVANJE
• PROSPEKTIKER INSTITUTO EUROPEO DE PROSPECTIVA Y ESTRATEGIA SA
• AREGAI Terre di benessere Associazione Culturale
• MEDNARODNA PODIPLOMSKA SOLA JOZEFA STEFANA