Mission-Related Activities

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1. Promoting good CG practices

with the main cooperating partner, the Corporate Governance Committee of AmCham.

Among the activities will be organizing the annual workshop (No.5) in 2010. Prof Hardi is also in the process of finalizing the second edition of the Corporate Governance Glossary that is aimed at unifying the terminology, and beyond translations will also include definitions and explanations.

Furthermore, the Center will be responsible for a new activity, a call for study writing on CG best practice case studies.

 

2. Sustainable campus at CEU

The Center’s three experts plan to launch a new movement within the CEU joining a newly emerged and rapidly spreading initiative for major universities, to promote sustainability within the university. Its different aspects include environmental issues, energy efficiency of the buildings, consolidation of everyday university life and infrastructure, promotion works triggering student participation, student clubs in setting benchmarks and improving indicators.

Our cooperating partner from CEU main will be Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, director, and her Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policies (3CSEP) at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at CEU.

Prof Hardi would also like to broaden the perspectives of this new movement in the field of sustainability, and go beyond the usual aspects by including social issues and CSR in the preliminary concept, highlighting what CSR activities universities could take on as operational units and also through their corporate contacts.

 

3. Outreach

The most important outreach function of the Center is promoting a multi-stakeholder dialogue about key and timely issues of business-society relationship.

 

The Center offers a forum for consultation, organizes and participates in workshops and conferences, creates speaking opportunities and media events to promote its research outcomes. We put special emphasis on constructive criticism and balancing perspectives. It is the aim of our activities to help Hungarian and international business leaders conduct socially responsible business in a supportive moral and legal environment.

 

Output

Keynotes in CSR events and conferences in Hungary; consulting business organizations on CSR and corporate governance topics, including the Hungarian Business Leaders Forum and the Joint Venture Association; articles on the topic of business in society in different business publications and in electronic and printed media.