Overview of the CSR School

The CSR-School provides advanced training regarding the identification of sustainability-related business opportunities and the inclusion of responsibility in the core of one’s business strategy, in order to achieve sustainable value and formulate a more resilient organization.

The training program is envisioned as a journey that will cover all major identified areas that relate to the responsible management of sustainability. CSR-School 2023 will take place between 13 November and 11 December on a weekly basis, during which a minimum of 40 hours of sustainability-related knowledge and management experience will be shared, trainees will gain an up-to-date overview of major developments around the largest environmental, social and governance challenges affecting businesses nowadays. This year, the CSR-School will take place in hybrid form, giving attendees – and speakers – the choice to either attend in person (location: The American College of Greece, Athens) or virtually (via Zoom).

During the 5 Hybrid Sessions, the participants will attend lectures by distinguished academic faculty members, discuss relevant case studies, learn about best practices that have been implemented by experienced senior professionals and exchange views and thoughts around the incorporation of relevant theory into the CSR initiatives of their own organization.

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WHY ATTEND THE CSR SCHOOL

Learn from world-class experts

Work on real-case scenarios

Earn a professional certificate

Accelerate your career

Discover “how-to” through best practices

Join a broad network of professionals

Earn 10 ECTS

Learn from world-class experts

Work on real-case scenarios

Earn a professional certificate

Accelerate your career

Discover “how-to” through best practices

Join a broad network of professionals

Earn 10 ECTS

THEMATIC AREAS OF THE CSR-SCHOOL

Day 1 (13/11/23):

  •  Kick-Off Session 
  • Intro & Sustainability Strategy

Day 2 (20/11/23):

  • Stakeholder Management & Materiality Analysis 
  • Governance & Accountability 

Day 3 (27/11/23):

  • Responsible Human Capital Management
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Day 4 (04/12/23):

  • Climate Risks & Environmental Management
  • Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing

Day 5 (11/12/23):

  • Responsibility-driven Marketing & Communication
  • Wrap up

SCHEDULE

This event, which is open to the public, signals the beginning of the 5th CSR-School. The aim of the event is to highlight different models of leadership and management emerging within the new business environment, with responsibility and sustainability taking an even more central position in the principles and practices of companies. Additionally, the event aims to showcase the skills and knowledge needed across all sectors, hierarchical levels, and departments of companies to foster compliance with – and beyond – the new legislative sustainability framework. Join the event to: Learn about recent innovative research studies conducted in Greece, Cyprus and America regarding leadership models and perceptions of sustainability within and outside companies Hear fruitful discussions between Greek ESG Heroes regarding corporate culture, leadership and skills development promoted within their own organizations Discover the skills gaps and needs presented by human resources departments and what educational institutions are doing to address them Meet and reconnect with fellow sustainability professionals

Detailed agenda

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Location: Hall 1, Building A , Golden Street , Southafrica

Learning objectives / outcomes:

  • Highlight the cornerstones of the mainstream business models.
  • Highlight the global impacts and risks induced by the mainstream business models.
  • Introduce stakeholders’ interests within corporate purpose.
  • Present corporate transformations rising from the “Stakeholder capitalism” business context.
  • Present the cornerstones for creating and providing sustainable shared value.
  • Demonstrate how business responsibility enhances corporate competitiveness.
  • Present the roadmap and the steps towards the development of a CSR action plan.
  • Contents:

  • The “Business as usual” context.
  • The impacts of the “Business as usual” context.
  • Mainstreaming stakeholders.
  • Materializing opportunities in the “Stakeholder capitalism” context.
  • Introducing Sustainability and Responsibility in the corporate DNA.
  • An Action Plan towards Sustainable Shared Value.
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    Location: Hybrid

    Learning objectives / outcomes:

  • Understand the materiality principle and its most recent developments.
  • Understand the difference between materiality (principle), materiality assessment, stakeholder engagement.
  • Analyze and evaluate the quality, reliability, and informational value of materiality assessments.
  • Learn the practical steps to conduct a materiality assessment.
  • Learn how to read and use a materiality assessment.
  • Understand the elements that characterize a good materiality assessment.
  • Contents:

  • How materiality has been transplanted from accounting and auditing to sustainability and what this means.
  • Materiality definitions across standards. Focus on financial materiality, dynamic materiality, double materiality.
  • Materiality in practice: key steps to conduct a materiality assessment, evidence and data to be used, making sense of the analysis.
  • Assessing the quality of a materiality assessment: key elements.
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    Location: Hybrid

    Contents:

  • Exploring the significance in assessing, prioritizing, and managing sustainability-related impacts within the business framework
  • Showcasing successful alignment and its positive effects on business sustainability and performance
  • Presenting effective methodologies and tools for conducting impact materiality assessments
  • Emphasizing the importance of involving stakeholders in impact materiality assessment and reporting
  • Identifying potential opportunities for the company to leverage impact materiality to drive innovation and competitive advantage
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    Location: Hybrid

    Contents:

  • Stakeholder engagement
  • TITAN’s approach for Materiality Assessment
  • BUs Validation Materiality 2022
  • Blueprint for stakeholder engagement project, key info and highlights about stakeholders' responses, main conclusions
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    Location: Hybrid

    Learning objectives / outcomes:

  • Explain the relationship between Corporate Ethics, Corporate Governance and Sustainability.
  • Understand the importance of dealing with Sustainability and ESG criteria at the Board level.
  • Be aware of the recent Sustainable Corporate Governance initiatives at European level.
  • Learn how to build a sustainable board.
  • Be familiar with good practices and trends in Sustainable Corporate Governance.
  • Contents:

  • Corporate Governance at a Glance
  • Board of Directors and Sustainability / ESG
  • Sustainable Corporate Governance and the Due Diligence on the Supply Chain
  • Fighting corruption and the role of the Boards
  • Building a Culture of Accountability
  • Roadmap to Build Sustainable Corporate Governance
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    Location: Hybrid

    Contents:

  • Foundations of Sustainability in Business: The case of TITAN Group
  • Governance & Accountability: Elements and role of an effective Compliance Program
  • Compliance Assurance Systems: Third-party Due Diligence System
  • Fighting Corruption through an Anti-Fraud Program
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    Location: Hybrid

    Scope:

  • To highlight the role of inclusive working environments and responsible human capital management as key drivers towards CSR.
  • Learning objectives / outcomes

  • Introduce key issues related to responsible human capital management for sustainable organization-building.
  • Discuss how responsible human capital management can support the CSR strategy by leveraging internal competencies and contributing to a positive, healthy and fair work environment.
  • Outline the key elements of a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) strategy for inclusive and respectful work environments.
  • Introduce the Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework.
  • Contents

  • Socially responsible human capital management: The interface between CSR and HRM
  • Key HRM practices (e.g., recruitment, performance management, talent management) that support the CSR strategy and contribute to improving the work and quality of life of employees.
  • Diversity and Inclusion frameworks and key pillars of a DEI strategy.
  • Aligning organizational systems and policies and implementation challenges.
  • The Inner Development Goals (IDG) framework.
  • Best practices and organizational examples.
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    Location: Online

    Learning objectives/ outcomes: Through this session participants will:

  • Gain an understanding of how the EU Due Diligence legislation relates to supply chain management and procurement
  • Establish the relationship between EU Due Diligence legislation and socio-ecological challenges facing organisations
  • Advance their knowledge of relevant regulatory and voluntary approaches towards sustainability in supply chains and procurement
  • Explore how they can proactively embed Due Diligence in the ways of working of their organisations through examples and games
  • Surface the key issues and debates related to sustainable supply chain management and procurement
  • Develop a better sense of their own assumptions and position towards relation between business and sustainability
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    Contents:

  • Due diligence in a sustainability context: the urgency of addressing ecological and social challenges and
  • Due diligence implications: what it has to do with procurement and supply chains
  • Defining sustainable supply chain management and sustainable procurement
  • Sustainable SCM and procurement: how to become pro-active
  • The future of sustainable SCM and procurement: global trends
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    Location: Online

    Contents:

  • Social sustainability at the farm
  • Create consensus in the global specialty coffee industry
  • Minimize energy consumption and waste strategy
  • Transform the coffee supply chain from linear to circular
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    Location: Hybrid

    Contents:

  • Policies and codes for managing responsible supplier relationships
  • Supplier monitoring and evaluation with ESG criteria: tools, methodology and results of Mytilineos' case
  • Requirements of investors for a sustainable supply chain management
  • Supplier adaptation and risk mitigation plans for continuous improvement
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    Location: Hybrid

    Learning objectives / outcomes:
    By the end of this module participants should be able to:

  • Determine the risks, challenges and opportunities emerging from climate change for your organisation.
  • Understand how command and control regulation, market based instruments and voluntary regulation affect corporate strategies towards climate change.
  • Present Climate Change Risks and Opportunities Reporting versus Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting.
  • Assess the task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TFCD).
  • Present how much exposed and vulnerable is a business towards climate change.
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    Location: Hybrid

    Contents:

  • VIOLANTA & Environmental Innovation

  • 1. VIOLANTA's vision for sustainability
    2. World's first chimneyless biscuit factory with "Violanta steam free" technology


  • Technology

  • 1. Vertically integrated electrically powered tunnel oven.
    2. Renewable energy sources (photovoltaics etc.).
    3. Special geothermal water exchangers.

  • Environmental Benefits

  • 1. No emission of carbon dioxide (CO2).
    2. Elimination of water vapor and hot gas discharge chimneys.

  • Economic Benefits

  • 1. Energy saving by reducing energy costs.
    2. Production of hot water for the needs of the factory.

  • Sustainable Future

  • 1. Innovative technology for environmentally responsible industry.
    2. Step towards reducing the greenhouse effect.

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    Location: Hybrid

    Learning objectives / outcomes:

  • Demonstrate understanding of why and how to choose sustainable finance solutions over traditional investments.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the impact of environmental, social and governance factors on valuation and pricing for investment and lending decisions.
  • Ability to analyze the characteristics of the main sustainable finance products.
  • Understand the characteristics of social/environmental impact measurement systems and the main challenges associated with the development of a system measuring the impact of ESG investments.
  • Contents:

  • The core concepts of sustainable finance and investing explained through theory and empirical data
  • The relevance of sustainability to finance sector decision-makers
  • Regulations and framework of sustainable finance and investing
  • Presentation of the main sustainable finance products, as green bonds and green loans
  • Τools and practices for social/environmental impact measurement
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    Location: Online

    Contents

  • Sustainability, ESG, and Impact in the capital markets universe
  • The Biopharma Investor ESG Communications Initiative, a brief overview
  • Investor objectives and expectations from business
  • Business and investor ESG communications: The role of other capital markets stakeholders (i.e. raters, standard-setters)
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    Location: Hybrid

    Scope: 
    To identify the links between CSR (or ESG) communications, marketing, and analytics.

    Learning objectives/ outcomes:
    At the end of this session students should be able to:

  • Define CSR performance as a key stakeholder satisfaction metric.
  • Measure CSR performance.
  • Reflect on the Greenwashing phenomenon.
  • Offer research-based advice on how to communicate ESG.
  • Review and experience survey-based instruments to measure ESG performance.
  • Understand and analyze the role of Marketing Analytics tools like Segmentation and Sentiment Analytics in helping firms understand their stakeholders and “compete” on ESG performance.
  • Review and experience how AI and Big Data disrupts CSR (ESG) scoring with implications for greenwashing and marketing ethics (including for example selling practices & product labeling)

  • Contents:

  • Marketing Reframed: Stakeholder Satisfaction & CSR Performance.
  • CSR meets Marketing Analytics
  • Truvalue Platform™ Demonstration (Artificial Intelligence, CSR/ESG Firm Scoring, and Marketing Ethics scoring). Truvalue Labs™ an awarded Fintech, applies Artificial Intelligence to massive volumes of unstructured data and scores firms on ESG behavior that has a material impact on company value. We will also focus on how AI allows firms to be monitored 24/7 on marketing ethics including customer privacy, access & affordability, product quality & safety, customer welfare, and selling practices & product labeling)
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    Location: Online

    Contents:

  • B Corp Certification, How it works & deliverables
  • 1% for the Planet Commitment
  • PUIG ESG Agenda 2030, how we align, what we do
  • Billion Bees Program
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    Location: Hybrid

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    Location: Hall 1, Building A , Golden Street , Southafrica

    Who's Teaching

    Expert Professors

    Dr. Constantine Manasakis

    Dr. Constantine Manasakis

    Associate Professor, Political Science Dpt., University of Crete

    Dr. Anne Touboulic

    Dr. Anne Touboulic

    Associate Professor in Operations Management, Deputy Chair, Social Environmental Responsibility Group, PRME Lead, Nottingham University Business School

    Dr. Pavlos A. Vlachos

    Dr. Pavlos A. Vlachos

    Associate Professor of Marketing, ALBA Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece

    Dr. Olga Epitropaki

    Dr. Olga Epitropaki

    Professor and Director of Research of the Management & Marketing Department, Durham University Business School

    Dr. Alexandros Antonaras

    Dr. Alexandros Antonaras

    Associate Professor of Management and Vice President of Student Services, University of Nicosia

    Dr. Donato Calace

    Dr. Donato Calace

    Senior Vice President, Accounts & Innovation, Datamaran, Member, Expert Working Group on EU Sustainability Reporting Standards, EFRAG

    Dr. Konstantinos Evaggelinos

    Dr. Konstantinos Evaggelinos

    Senior University Researcher, Lecturer and Consultant, University of the Aegean

    Dr. Giannis Vikas

    Dr. Giannis Vikas

    University Lecturer - Researcher and Freelance Consultant in the fields of Sustainability, Social Economy and Entrepreneurship

    Expert Professionals

    Ms. Maria Alexiou

    Ms. Maria Alexiou

    Chair BoD, CSRHELLAS; BoD member, CSR Europe; ESG Senior Advisor, TITAN Cement Group; Member, PTF ESRS Secretariat, EFRAG

    Ms. Marina Spyridaki

    Ms. Marina Spyridaki

    Corporate Affairs Manager, AEGEAN

    Mr. Nikos Koumaniotis

    Mr. Nikos Koumaniotis

    Senior Production Operations Manager, COFFEE ISLAND

    Ms. Myrto Kontaxi

    Ms. Myrto Kontaxi

    Sustainability and ESG Advisor, Partner of the Biopharma Sustainability Roundtable

    Mr. Alexandros Kostopoulos

    Mr. Alexandros Kostopoulos

    Sustainable Development Manager, MYTILINEOS

    Mr. Anagnosti John Choukalas

    Mr. Anagnosti John Choukalas

    Head of Sustainability of APIVITA & URIAGE, Derma Division, PUIG Group

    Mr. Sotiris Pastras

    Mr. Sotiris Pastras

    Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility Manager, APIVITA

    Ms. Angelika Tzemou

    Ms. Angelika Tzemou

    BoD Member & Head of HR, Bayer Greece

    Mr. Konstantinos Giamalidis

    Mr. Konstantinos Giamalidis

    Group Compliance & Anti-Fraud Director TITAN Cement Group, MA, CIA, CFE, CRMA

    Mr. Ioannis Mastoris

    Mr. Ioannis Mastoris

    Sustainability Integration Manager, TITAN

    Mr. Athanasios Tzortzinis

    Mr. Athanasios Tzortzinis

    ESG Officer, MYTILINEOS

    Mr. Stefanos Tziortziotis

    Mr. Stefanos Tziortziotis

    Marketing Director, Violanta S.A.

    Mr. Stefanos Komninos

    Mr. Stefanos Komninos

    Executive Partner, Netrino, Ex-Secretary General of Commerce, Hellenic Ministry of Development

    Guests

    Dr. Djordjija Petkoski

    Dr. Djordjija Petkoski

    Lecturer and Senior Fellow, Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research, The Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania

    Ms. Stavroula Aggelopoulou

    Ms. Stavroula Aggelopoulou

    Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility Director, OTE Group

    Ms. Rania Assariotaki

    Ms. Rania Assariotaki

    Director, Office of Sustainability, The American College of Greece

    Mr. Nikos Politis

    Mr. Nikos Politis

    Senior Construction Development Dpt. Manager, COFFEE ISLAND

    Moderation & Administration

    Ms. Ariadne Stagkou-Bell

    Ms. Ariadne Stagkou-Bell

    Business Development Manager, CSR HELLAS

    Ms. Marina Kyvelou

    Ms. Marina Kyvelou

    CSR Network Assistant, CSR HELLAS

    Quick Talks with Academics – Podcast Series

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