[voew-listserver] CSR Conference: Rhetoric and Realities - CSR in Europe, Brussels, 27 June 2007
- From: "Franziska Wolff" <f.wolff@xxxxxxx>
- To: "listserver, voew" <voew-listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:15:49 +0200
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Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to invite you to attend an important all day conference on
Corporate Social Responsibility to take place on 27 June 2007 in Brussels.
The conference will present and debate the results of a three year research
study funded by the European Union that has examined whether Corporate
Social Responsibility can lead to genuine impacts on society and the
environment or whether CSR is merely rhetorical presentation.
The conference is entitled:
?Rhetoric and Realities - Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe
Discussion of cutting edge results of a recent EU project on the
sustainability impacts of CSR?
and will take place between 10am and 6pm at the Fondation Universitaire, rue
d?Egmont 11, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Participation is free.
The research project ?Rhetoric and Realities: Analysing Corporate Social
Responsibility in Europe? (RARE) has been carried out by a consortium of
research institutes which has examined four CSR issues across three business
sectors. The findings of the RARE project will be presented at the
conference by researchers and will be discussed by acknowledged experts and
practitioners of CSR.
The main themes of the conference are:
? What CSR sustainability impacts can be found in the selected
business sectors: banking, oil and fisheries?
? To what extent does CSR contribute to achieving current EU
sustainability goals, especially with regard to the mitigation of climate
change, chemicals policy, sustainable fisheries, gender equality and
countering bribery?
? What are the limits of the contribution of CSR to sustainability?
? What factors foster or hamper the creation of CSR impacts?
? What are the consequences and recommendations for further
development of the EU?s CSR policy and research?
Keynote speakers include:
? Jan Noterdaeme, Stakeholder Relations, CSR Europe
? Professor David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley, Haas
School of Business
We very much hope you will be able to attend. Full details are given in the
conference flyer at
http://www.rare-eu.net/fileadmin/user_upload/internal/RARE_Conference_Flyer_
0705014.pdf. If you wish to attend then please register early, if possible
by 15 June 2007. Please send an email or fax or post the registration form
provided in the conference flyer to Ms. Heike Unruh, h.unruh@xxxxxxx; fax:
+49 (0) 6151 8191-33; c/o Öko-Institut e.V., Rheinstr. 95, 64295 Darmstadt,
Germany.
We hope to see you in Brussels!
Kind regards,
Regine Barth and Franziska Wolff
for the RARE project
Background
The RARE project was carried out by seven leading research institutions with
funding from the EU?s Sixth Framework Programme (CIT2-CT-2004-506043). The
consortium includes Öko-Institut e.V. (coordinator), Fridtjof Nansen
Institute, Stockholm Environment Institute, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the Institute for
social-ecological research and Peter Wilkinson, Project Adviser to
Transparency International for the ?Business Principles for Countering
Bribery?.
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