*NEW * Working Group Tour Sustainable Finance Friday 7 March 2025
1.00pm -2.15pm GMT
Working Group leads Megan Kashner (Northwestern University), Jaap Bos (Maastricht University), and Meeta Kothare (University of Texas at Austin) are all Steering Committee members of the Impact & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium which serves as the Working Group on Sustainable Finance for UNPRME.
These three professors will share information and insights about the membership-based group whose 400+ members represent over 235 universities across more than 40 countries. This group of colleagues is a sharing community of mutuality and collaboration. The group convenes annually at the end of June and in virtual meetings and sessions all year long with the goal of learning from and with one another so that each can improve and expand on instruction, pedagogy, research, and preparation of the next generations of leaders in sustainable finance. https://www.impactandsustainablefinance.org/
Please register in advance via the ZOOM REGISTRATION LINK
*Update* 2025 PRME UK & Ireland Chapter Annual Conference
Call for Submissions Now Open: PRME Chapter UK & Ireland Doctoral Colloquium
Are you a doctoral student or do you supervise one? The call for submissions for the 2025 PRME Chapter UK & Ireland Doctoral Colloquium (DC) is now open!
The DC aims to support doctoral researchers working to inform the knowledge base on the impact of the Seven Principles of PRME and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We invite contributions from doctoral students involved in all areas of research around responsible management and advancement of the UN SDGs.
The DC is a single-day event (invitation-only and limited places, following successful submission of an abstract). It takes place on Tuesday 17th June 2025, the day before the two-day PRME Chapter UK & Ireland Conference, hosted by Queen's Business School, Belfast, on 18th & 19th June 2025
.For more information, including details of the submission requirements, visit: www.unprme.org.uk/2025doctoralcolloquium. The deadline for abstract submissions is Monday 24th March 2025 at 5pm.
For any questions, please email Rachel Welton, the Doctoral Colloquium Chair at rachel.welton@ntu.ac.uk.
PRME Chapter UK & Ireland Conference 2025: Call for Submissions Open
With just two weeks to go, the countdown is on to the closing date for submissions for the 2025 PRME UK & Ireland Chapter Annual Conference!
Hosted by Queen's Business School, Belfast, the conference theme for 2025 is 'Partnering for Progress: Enhancing Collaboration, Building Communities, and Navigating Conflict to Accelerate Agenda 2030'.
The pre-conference programme on Tuesday 17 June 2025 will include a doctoral colloquium (see above) and RME focused writing retreat, followed by an optional social dinner. The main conference on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 June will showcase best practice in responsible management education.The closing date for submissions is Friday 28 February 2025 at 5pm.
For more information, including in relation to the various submission formats available, please visit: www.unprme.org.uk/2025-annual-conference.
*Reminder* PRME UK & Ireland Chapter Faculty Research Seed Funding Competition 2025
We are delighted to announce the launch of the next PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Faculty Research Seed Funding Competition. The purpose of the competition is to incentivise and support research that delivers on the key aims of the Chapter, centred on delivering impact relating to the principles of PRME and/or the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The competition features a prize fund of £6,000. We invite fully-costed entries for awards of up to £1,500. There is no set number of awards across the Seed Funding Competition, but rather a total funding pot of £6,000 has been established.
Further information is available on our website.
Access the application form here.
Queries and applications should be directed via email to Dr Georgina Gough on Georgina.Gough@uwe.ac.uk.
The closing date for applications is 28 February 2025.
We look forward to your submissions, and thank you to all Members for their Chapter annual financial contributions that make these awards possible.
*NEW * United Nations Global Compact LEAP Programme
To register for LEAP click here. For further information please reach out to leap@oikos-international.org.
*New* 12th Responsible Management Education Research Conference
21 – 23 October 2025, Belgrade, Serbia
Faculty of Organizational Sciences,
University of Belgrade
CALL FOR TRACK PROPOSALS
Rethinking Growth and Exploring New Possibilities for a Regenerative World:
Unexplored Management Research and Education Areas that Reconnect Purpose to Responsible Business and Leadership
We are thrilled to invite you to the 12th Responsible Management Education Research Conference organized by the PRME Anti-Poverty Working Group, hosted by the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Organizational Sciences. The 12th RMER Conference will bring together educators, experts, innovators, government representatives, and other stakeholders to explore critical issues in responsible management education, with a special focus on addressing global challenges through innovative and sustainable practices.
We kindly invite fellow educators and researchers from the PRME and responsible management education community in general, and their respective stakeholders to respond to this call and submit track proposals that correspond to and/or complement to the conference theme of Rethinking Growth and Exploring New Possibilities for a Regenerative World: Unexplored Management Research and Education Areas that Reconnect Purpose to Responsible Business and Leadership.
For more information about the Conference, please check the Conference Home Page which will be regularly updated.
In 1987, the Brundtland Commission defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” In 2015, the United Nations accelerated organizational and institutional commitment to sustainable development by establishing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and advocating for their achievement by 2030. Since then, the SDGs have become benchmarks used by governments, businesses, nonprofit, civic and multilateral organizations, as well as educational institutions, including universities and colleges, and society-at-large, to measure progress towards a more just, prosperous, and flourishing world. Yet with only five years left for their achievement, practitioners and academic scholars are proposing concepts that, while still embodying a common sustainable development agenda, move beyond the SDGs. One of these emerging, sustainable development concepts is regeneration.
Regeneration takes as its starting point that human beings are a constitutive and active part of the ecosystem rather than a controlling recipient of its ‘resources.’ As its name implies, regenerative systems renew themselves not once, but over and over again – often getting stronger and more robust in the process. Regeneration goes beyond sustainability and other emerging sustainability concepts, such as thriving, by offering the most holistic perspective to date to address complex and interdependent socio-ecological systems. Pioneer, regenerative businesses, such as Unilever, Danone, Nestle, Mars, and Interface, place planetary health and societal well-being at their core. These firms are moving beyond the idea of “doing less harm” to an ethos of co-evolution within their own social-ecological system. This, in turn, drives not only substantive business model and business system reinvention but also a re-examination of business purpose and leadership skills needed to effect this transformation. Regeneration also raises interesting research questions for management scholars and creates opportunities to refine/redefine understandings of responsible management education and learning. These are the themes of the 12th Responsible Management Education Research Conference.
Call for Track Proposals
We invite individuals to submit Conference Track Proposals that are associated with the general theme of the RMER Conference – Rethinking Growth and Exploring New Possibilities for a Regenerative World: Unexplored Management Research and Education Areas that Reconnect Purpose to Responsible Business and Leadership. Track proposals could be related, but are not limited, to:
· Approaches and Strategies that Empower Learners to Become Responsible Managers: Exploring frameworks that foster regenerative, purpose-driven leadership.
· Moving from Content to Competencies: Identifying core skills that shape responsible, sustainable managers and leaders.
· Beyond the SDGs: Pushing beyond global targets to reconnect purpose with business and leadership.
· Historical and Cultural Contexts: Learning from different eras and societies to inform regenerative strategies.
· Artificial Intelligence (AI) in RME: Leveraging AI ethically for greater impact in responsible management education.
· Student-Focused Research: Using student insights to shape the next generation of responsible leaders
· Cultivating a Sustainable Mindset: Encouraging holistic thinking and long-term, regenerative approaches.
· Forward Thinking for Sustainable Futures: Overcoming challenges and seizing opportunities for purpose-aligned growth.
· Learning from Failure: Transforming setbacks into pathways for stronger responsible management.
· Innovations in Internal Dialogue: Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration to reconnect organizational purpose.
· Innovations in External Dialogue: Engaging communities and corporate partners in solutions for responsible leadership.
· Education for Sustainable Development: Empowering youth and communities through transformative learning experiences.
· Governance and Policy for Sustainable Development: Mobilizing multi-stakeholder partnerships and coherent policy frameworks.
· Innovative Pedagogy in Teaching Responsible Management Education: Integrating advanced methods and technologies to cultivate regenerative leadership.
· Faculty Development Needs, Challenges, and Responses
Responsibilities of the track proponents include:
· Attending the 12th RMER Conference
· Coordinating with the conference committee on all conference-related matters
· Disseminating the Call for Contributions (Papers/Abstracts/Extended Abstracts/Work in Progress)
· Organizing the contribution review process and provide recommendations for acceptance
· Chairing their tracks during the Conference
The track review process will be run by the conference Program Committee, who will also suggest the format and schedule for the accepted tracks/sessions.
The deadline for the conference track proposal submission is 1 March 2025.
To submit a track proposal please follow the link below and complete the form entering a track title, short track description.
IMPORTANT DATES* Call for Track Proposals - 1st February 2025
Deadline for submitting Track Proposal - 1st March 2025
Notification of acceptance - 12th March 2025
Call for Contributions (Abstracts/Papers) - 15th March 2025
Deadline for Contributions (Abstracts/Papers) - 15th March 2025
Notification of Acceptance of Contributions - 18th July 2025
*Please note that we will not be able to consider proposals submitted after the due date.
*Reminder* PRME UK & Ireland Competition:
Responsible Business and Management Student Writing Competition 2024-25
Closing date: 28th February 2025
The 9th round of the PRME UK & Ireland's annual Student Writing Competion is now live.
Whether you are assessing student work currently and have found submissions that deserve further recognition, or perhaps you have just completed this task, the Responsible Business and Management and Student Writing Competition presents a great opportunity for student's work to be spotlighted.
Competition details:
The competition has three categories - undergraduate essays and reports, postgraduate taught Master's level essays and reports, and an Alternative Media category open to both PG Taught and UG students.
The competition is open to a wide variety of disciplines - marketing, economics, accounting, leadership and management etc. In all cases there needs to be a clear link to the Sustainable Development Goals and/or responsible business, management and leadership themes.
Entries will normally be work already written and submitted by students at their home institution i.e. the competition does not require specially written essays or other artefacts. Students can also choose to develop work on a topic of their choice related to the SDGs/responsible business and management.
There are three prizes in every category, jointly sponsored by the Chapter and Oxford Brookes University: first prize (£500), second prize (£250) and third prize (£100). Finalists in all categories also receive a certificate of achievement.
Entrants can be from PRME and non PRME signatory business schools - this competition is part of the Chapter's outreach to the wider sector.
We explicitly permit work that has utilised AI tools. But we require all entrants to declare whether (and, if so, how) AI tools have been used in their work.
Please share the relevant details with your students.
Students can enter their work directly or you can do it on their behalf.
If you have any questions about the competition, direct them via email to the organiser, Jonathan Louw on prme@brookes.ac.uk.
We look forward to your entries !
The deadline for entries (via email to prme@brookes.ac.uk) is 28th February 2025.
*Reminder* PRME Global Students Sustainability Awards
🚀 Call for Submissions: The 2025 PRME Global Students (PGS) Sustainability Awards are now open!
We’re celebrating exceptional sustainability-focused student organizations from PRME Signatory Members that champion responsible management education and advance the SDGs. All finalists are sponsored to attend the 2025 PRME Global in NYC, and the winner will receive USD 2000 for their local initiative.
📅 Submission Deadline: 23 February 2025 (11:59 pm EST)
🔍 Learn more and apply here: PRME Global Students Sustainability Awards: Call for… | UNPRME.
Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your impact!
*Reminder* PRME Island of Ireland Local Network Event
‘Developing Responsible Management Education Focused Case Studies: A Masterclass with Dr Anupam Mehta’
Where: Online via Zoom
Join the PRME Island of Ireland (IoI) Local Network on Friday 28 March from 10am for a ‘Masterclass on Developing Responsible Management Education Focused Case Studies’ with Dr Anupam Mehta.
Dr Anupam Mehta is an Associate Professor in the Accounting Department at Birmingham Business School. Dr Mehta is an author of best-selling cases on Harvard Business Publishing. In addition, her case study writing work has been recognized with prestigious awards, including the Best Emerging Paper at the BAFA Accounting Education Special Interest Group Conference and selection as a winner of the 2022 Seed Funding Competition for Developing Innovative Pedagogies and Teaching Practices in PRME.
The masterclass aims to provide a comprehensive guide to crafting engaging teaching case studies.The session will cover the essential elements of case writing, with a particular emphasis on developing engaging, high-quality outputs addressing ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability within business.
In addition, it will draw attention to the PRME ‘Impactful Five’ (i5). By targeting five key characteristics of learning to integrate sustainability skills into business schools, the i5 pedagogy aims to train the next generation of leaders to shape a workforce of lifelong learners equipped with contemporary skills needed to address today’s sustainable development challenges.
To register, please click here.
For any questions, please email Laura Steele (laura.steele@qub.ac.uk) & Karen Neville (KarenNeville@ucc.ie), the PRME Island of Ireland Local Network Co-Leads.
*Reminder* Webinar: Billionaires and Business Education
When: 17 February 2025, 8pm - 9:30pm GMT
Where: Zoom.
Moderator: Carl Rhodes, Dean at UTS Business School and author of Stinking Rich.
As the wealth gap continues to widen, it's essential to interrogate the narratives that surround the ultra-wealthy. Are billionaires truly heroes, or do they perpetuate harmful myths that obscure systemic issues of economic injustice?
This conversation will challenge participants to consider critical questions, such as:
· How can business schools equip future leaders to engage with the narratives surrounding wealth and power?
· In what ways can the curriculum be designed to foster an understanding of the ethical implications of extreme wealth?
· What role can business education play in promoting economic justice and democratic equality?
Register here to attend.
*Reminder * Webinar: Climate Coaching for Shaping Tomorrow by The Climate Coaching Alliance
When: 11th March 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
The PRME Working Group on Climate Change and Environment will host the Climate Coaching Alliance for a webinar on 'Climate Coaching for Shaping Tomorrow'.
The Climate Coaching Alliance is a global network of individuals committed to embedding sustainable practices into the coaching profession.
During this session, attendees will hear from experienced coaches including:
Key topics will include:
Connecting with personal feelings
Helping students to become effective change-makers (knowing how to use their power)
Learning how to influence leaders
Helping policy-makers to create environmentally conscious policies
This webinar will equip educators with practical tools and approaches that can be embedded into their future work.
Register here to secure your spot.
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