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.