Attendees of the 4th Annual Responsible Leadership Day Event, Digital Future: Ethics, Integrity & Values
The Sobey School of Business is pleased to announce that we have been selected as a PRME Champion for the 2023 cycle. PRME, or the Principles for Responsible Management Education, is a United Nations supported initiative that provides a framework to advance the broader cause of corporate social responsibility and incorporate universal values into curricula and research. As a voluntary initiative with over 800 signatories worldwide, PRME has become the largest organized relationship between the United Nations and management-related higher education institutions.
The Sobey School of Business, along with 46 other PRME Champions, was chosen from a pool of strong and diverse PRME Signatory Members, based on our track record of impactful contributions in thought and action leadership. The Sobey School of Business has been a Signatory to PRME since 2014, and became a Champion in 2020. PRME Champions represent a group of dedicated business and management schools from across the PRME membership, committed to working collaboratively to develop and promote activities that address shared barriers for the PRME community, and which deliver value for business and society at large. Previous collaborations of the PRME Champions include the Climate Literacy Training for Business Schools, the Blueprint for SDG Integration, the SDG Library, and more.
The focus of the 2023 Champions cycle will be on action leadership to inspire our global community, specifically through the Inspirational Guide on SDG Integration on Research, Curriculum, and Partnerships, which serves as a repository of inspiring examples that will build on the work of the existing Blueprint for SDG Integration. A unique feature of the 2023 cycle is engagement in the Impactful Five (i5) Project, a project in collaboration with the LEGO Foundation that is applying the Foundation’s longstanding work on playful learning to business education. The Sobey School of Business will participate in a series of workshops throughout the year to source, develop, and implement innovative pedagogies, inspired by the five characteristics of playful learning: joyful, socially interactive, actively engaging, meaningful, and iterative, and the development of the five skills: cognitive, emotional, creative, social, and physical.
Dr Chantal Hervieux and Dr Margaret McKee will be piloting the i5 program. The School has also committed to contributing to the Inspirational Guides and participating in the Global Forum in June.
As a flagship PRME programme, the PRME Champions Programme provides faculty members, students and industry leaders with a space for developing and sharing collaborative educational methods and a ‘living lab’ for ambitious new ideas for developing the next generation of sustainability-driven business schools and management-related higher education institutions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
To learn more about the Sobey School of Business’s commitment to PRME and our PRME-based initiatives, we invite you to read our 2022 Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) Report.