Award Repository

The 2024 Faculty Teaching Awards honor impactful pedagogical innovations that accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across a variety of business school disciplines: management; accounting and finance; marketing; and operations and analytics. Submissions were received from over 800 institutions in more than 90 countries from PRME’s extensive community of business and management schools. Many of the submissions showcased an array of classroom interventions demonstrating creativity, thoughtfulness, pedagogical excellence, and a profound commitment to equipping students with the skills needed to drive sustainable development forward.

A select group of disciplinary experts from PRME schools formed the judging committee and chose five winners based on classroom interventions that demonstrated impactful pedagogical work, which contributed to advancing the SDGs, promoted student skill development, and established relevance across disciplines. The committee also looked for submissions that demonstrated alignment with the goals of PRME’s Impactful Five (i5) pedagogical framework.

2023 PRME Faculty Recognition Award for Excellence in SDG Integration

The intention of this award is to recognize faculty achievements within the PRME Community in integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into business school activities in the period of January 2022 to April 2023 that exemplifies one or more of the Six PRME Principles.

The Secretariat received 43 submissions of inspiring and impactful work in creating innovative teaching programs that are integrating the SDGs, encouraging more SDG focused research, working collaboratively to advocate for PRME and the SDGs, and serving the broader PRME community and society. The submissions went through an evaluation by the PRME Secretariat based on the following selection criteria.

A project, programme, initiative, activity, function, or event that either:

• demonstrates the integration of the SDGs by delivering outcomes that have collective benefit; and

• supports one or more of the six PRME principles; and

• has received internal recognition within the business school or its affiliated university for its contribution to the SDGs;

OR

• demonstrates the integration of the SDGs by delivering outcomes; and

• supports one or more of the six PRME principles; and

• has received external recognition for its contribution to the SDGs.

Evidence

• Evidence of internal recognition may include one or more sources such as student feedback, approval as core curriculum, or an internal research award.

• Evidence of external recognition may include external business school or university surveys.

• Evidence need not include the words SDGs but must clearly focus on the one or more of the SDGs or ESG or sustainability or sustainable development or ethical leadership or responsible leadership.

• Evidence does not include the rankings from accreditation bodies.

From the list of 43 candidates, the PRME Secretariat selected 10 for the final shortlist that was sent to the Faculty Award Review Committee. This committee is composed of community members presented below, to whom we express our sincere thanks.

Krista Finstad-Milion, ICN Business School, France

Lisa Fröhlich, CBS International Business School, Germany

Louise Whittaker, Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa

Divya Singhal, Goa Institute of Management, India

Emma Avetisyan, Audencia Business School, France

In 2023, three winners were selected for the PRME Faculty Recognition Award for Excellence in SDG Integration, and they were presented during a ceremony at the PRME Global Forum.

The 2024 PRME Global Students Sustainability Awards honors and recognizes the excellence of impactful sustainability-oriented student organizations from PRME Signatory Members that align their work with the Seven Principles for Responsible Management Education and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). PRME Global Students (PGS) received 119 submissions from 46 countries.

Submissions were divided into eight different regions (Latin America, North America, Africa, Europe, Eurasia, the Middle East, South and Central Asia, and East and Southeast Asia + Oceania) and evaluated by specific regional Judging Committees composed of PGS Regional Leaders (students) and PRME Chapter members (faculty) from PRME Signatory Members in the regions. To ensure a fair and transparent evaluation process, submissions were judged based on a rubric with five elements of evaluation criteria:

1. Advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Seven Principles for Responsible Management Education

2. Build on Creative Approaches,

3. Broad impact on the university ecosystem and local/regional communities

4. Promote Student Development

5. Global Cooperation

All eight Regional Winners moved to the Global Finals in which they appointed student representatives from their organizations to comprise a competition team and compete virtually in the Conscious Capitalism Competition organized by MarketPlace Simulations.

The purpose of the 2023 PRME Student Awards is to honor outstanding student-led initiatives within the PRME Community that demonstrate exceptional levels of innovation and impact in their actions toward the advancement of Responsible Management Education and the Sustainable Development Goals at local, national, and global levels.

The three-stage awarding process was led by the PRME Global Students (PGS) with the support of the PRME Secretariat. Beginning with the Nomination Stage, each of the nine PGS Regional Leaders nominated three outstanding sustainability-oriented student-led organizations in their respective continents and global sub-regions. Subsequently, in the Scoring Stage, a quantitative approach was used to narrow down the 27 nominations in nine top-listed candidates. Finally, during the Deliberation Stage, the PGS Regional Leaders met to discuss the shortlisted candidates and reached first a consensus on the three finalists, and subsequently, picked up the final winner.

In 2023, one winner and two runner-ups were selected for the PRME Student Award, and they were presented during a ceremony at the 2023 PRME Global Forum.

This year, we are celebrating 10 years of the Recognition of Excellence in SIP Reporting. Reports considered for the recognition in 2024 were those submitted between 1 May 2023 and 2 May 2024.

Continuing with the annual recognitions, we are pleased to publish the outstanding SIP Reports for 2023. Recipient institutions were recognized at the 2023 PRME Global Forum, during the reception on 14 June in the Delegates Dining Room at the UN Headquarters, with Global Forum attendees and special guest, Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.

All reports submitted between 1 May 2022 - 1 May 2023 were considered.

As per tradition, the 2022 edition of the Recognition Awards for SIP Excellence were presented at the 2022 Virtual PRME Global Forum on 3 June. There were 256 SIP Reports submitted since the last recognitions were given out in June 2021, in the period between 1 May 2021 - 1 May 2022. These were the reports taken into consideration for this year's awards.

All qualifying reports were read during the months of April and May, by a Peer Review Committee consisting of 22 members of the community from 13 countries, to determine eligibility. To be considered, reports needed to have fulfilled SIP policy requirements including:

1. A letter signed by the highest executive of the organisation expressing continued commitment to PRME. Note that SIPs with letters that were unsigned were still considered.
2. A description of practical actions (i.e., disclosure of any relevant policies, procedures, activities) that the institution has taken to implement one or more Principles during the past 24 months (since signing up to PRME or since last submission of SIP)
3. An assessment of outcomes (i.e., the degree to which previously outlined goals were met, or other qualitative or quantitative evaluation of results)
4. Key, specific objectives for the next 24-month period with regard to the implementation of the Principle(s). Concrete strategies and timelines are encouraged.

There are two important considerations in relation to identifying qualifying reports.

1. It is the quality of the reporting on progress that is considered, not the quality of the initiatives outlined.
2. These recognitions are for reports that specifically share information on progress in relation to PRME (although that is not to say that they cannot also include other reporting initiatives).

Four awards for excellence in Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reporting were announced during the 2021 Virtual PRME Global Forum.

Shortlisted reports were reviewed by a Peer Review Group made up of 17 Signatories from 14 countries, as well as 4 student reviewers from 3 countries. The process was coordinated by Giselle Weybrecht.

All reviewed reports were submitted between 1 May 2020 - 1 May 2021 and needed to fulfill all SIP policy requirements in order to qualify

Reports are recognized for:

1. Quality of reporting, not the quality of what is reported.
2. How they share information on progress in relation to PRME.

Four awards for excellence in SIP reporting were announced during the 2020 Virtual PRME Global Forum. Held on the second day of the Forum, the recognition was given to four PRME Champion schools for their high-quality SIP Reports. The recognized institutions, listed below by category, were selected by a peer review group under the guidance of Giselle Weybrecht, author, Editor to the PRiMEtime Blog and expert in sustainable business education. SIP Recognitions have become a tradition of each PRME Global Forum, and are intended to spotlight significant achievements in reporting progress against the Six Principles at higher education signatories to the Principles for Responsible Management Education.