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A central commitment of any institution participating in the PRME initiative is to regularly share information with its stakeholders on the progress made in implementing the Seven Principles through a Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) report. As a key integrity measure, the SIP's main objective is to serve as a public vehicle for information on responsible management education. In addition, the SIP can be an effective tool for facilitating stakeholder dialogue and a learning community among Signatories.
2025 SIP reporting will open 1 March and close 30 June. The 2025 SIP will be shared soon and all PRME Commons users will be notified when it is ready. The PRME Secretariat will host webinars throughout February to ensure Signatories are prepared for this year's reporting.
In order to maintain a "communicating" status within the PRME community, a Signatory must fulfill the following requirements.
Signatories are required to communicate their progress every year during the reporting period by submitting a Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) report. The annual reporting period is from 1 March - 30 June.
Signatories must answer all of the questions, upload all of the objects, and complete all the narratives required for each Principle to have a complete submission. Not all question responses will require object uploads or narratives. The SIP preview provides a comprehensive overview of what is required. The preview is released every year in January or early February, as necessary.
SIPs are to be completed online via PRME Commons to which all Signatory Members have access. If you do not have access, please write to us at commons@unprme.org.
The SIP reporting period is 1 March at 8 AM (ET) to 30 June at 11:59 PM (EDT).
New joiners do not need to submit a SIP until the year after joining. For example, Signatories joining PRME in 2025 do not need to submit a SIP until 2026.
Signatories, excluding new joiners, who fail to submit a SIP within the submission period will be listed as ‘Non-communicating’ on their Signatory profile.
‘Non-communicating’ Signatories who do not submit a late SIP by 31 December 2024 will be ‘Delisted’ from PRME in 2025.
In order to maintain the integrity and reputation of the initiative, PRME has developed criteria for delisting participants. Signatories that are delisted from the initiative will be reflected as such on the PRME website; will have all formal relationships with PRME and it Chapters terminated; are not allowed to use the PRME name or logo, even if such permission had been granted prior to their removal; and may result in the forfeiture of financial contributions, including required annual contributions or Champions.
All institutions that are no longer part of the initiative are given the status of “delisted,” with a reason for delisting, and it is reflected as such on PRME website.
Delistings can either occur for integrity reasons such as:
- Failure to communicate on progress (based on the reporting guidelines);
- Failure to Engage in dialogue: participants are required to respond to third party concerns raised with the PRME Secretariat within a two-month deadline. If a participant fails to respond within the required deadline, it may be listed as “non-communicating” until such dialogue commences. If the status persists for a year, the institution will be delisted for failure to engage in dialogue; and
- or for administrative reasons, which are usually based on a request by the participant.
The PRME Commons invites academics, educators, researchers, administrators, leaders, and institutions into a shared space to co-create and showcase the stories that shape responsible management education. Designed as a collaborative and evolving hub, the PRME Commons is less about rigid frameworks and more about fostering dialogue, sharing best practices, and amplifying innovative approaches to teaching, research, and leadership through collaborative reporting efforts.
Through the PRME Commons, Signatory Members can highlight examples of quality pedagogy, lessons from curriculum development, and cases of exemplary campus-wide sustainability practices that align with the values of the Principles of PRME. The platform is a place where educators and institutions can connect to share insights, inspire one another, and engage in global conversations about what works in responsible management education, while also showcasing what works best for them.
The PRME Commons represents a co-creation model of reporting, where the contributions of the global PRME community help shape the narrative and practice of sustainable leadership within higher education. It is a testament to the power of collective action in addressing the challenges of our time and ensuring that education remains a key driver of a sustainable future. We invite you to share your stories, learn from your peers, and join us in building a community that leads by example.
SIP reporting presents a valuable opportunity for PRME and its Signatory Members to embrace digital transformation and strengthen their commitment to responsible management education. Through this process, members can:
Build Credibility and Relevance: Demonstrate their dedication to the Principles for Responsible Management Education; the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and their own mission, vision, and purpose to advance business education for sustainable development and responsible management education.
Track and Reflect on Progress: Measure institutional advancements in responsible management practices both regionally and globally, highlighting and sharing best practices of your campus, community, and classroom.
Utilize Progression Levels: Self-evaluate their institution’s standing at the time of reporting, while reflecting on commitments and identifying areas for improvement; creating a self-established benchmark for performance from year to year.
With the integration of SIP reporting into the PRME Commons:
Access Global Insights and Best Practices: Engage in peer-learning across countries, regions, and institutions. PRME Commons provides a collaborative space for exchanging ideas, sharing success stories, and identifying gaps to continuously improve performance.
Showcase Narratives and Data: Share impactful stories and case studies systematically to enhance visibility and engagement.
Monitor Progress: Leverage one of the largest sources of free, public, and trusted data on responsible business education to benchmark and compare progress with peers—without the competitive pressures of ranking and ratings.
By fostering collaboration and creating a shared space for growth, SIP reporting through the PRME Commons empowers institutions to advance their impact, enrich their contributions to sustainable development, and lead the way in responsible management education.
The SIP can provide great value, both to individual signatories and to the global PRME community. Listed below are some benefits that Signatories note having gained from preparing, producing, and sharing SIP reports.
1. Creating awareness of the mission of PRME and your commitment to it: "We believe that the actual preparation of the report itself can serve as a powerful catalyst for continued change and further recognition of the influence of PRME on campus. The more that people on campus know about how PRME relates to our mission, the more likely they are to take steps to shape activities and programmes that will be aligned with and driven by the Principles." Babson College, United States.
2. Giving a concise and comprehensive overall picture of your activities: "Preparation of the report has brought to light the impressive number of activities in our College that are PRME-related. Although I track many of these programmes and initiatives, it is always surprising, when seeing it all accumulated, to realise the breadth and scope of these activities, and the large number of faculty, students, administrators and staff involved." The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John's University, United States.
3. Boosting visibility and reputation: "For us, preparing the PRME report has had tremendous benefits. We have found that the process of gathering data regarding progress and commitments in relation to PRME has made visible very powerful backstage initiatives that are definitively making changes when educating future managers. Therefore, for us PRME has been an instrument of public and social recognition of creative and treasured initiatives that colleagues have silently designed and implemented in order to form socially responsible managers and citizens." Universidad EAFIT, Colombia.
4. Organising and connecting relevant people across your organisation: "The reporting process has been exceedingly good at organising people who impact sustainability indicators. Because of the reporting process, regular meetings occurred between some of these parties and continue to occur with the future goal of improving our environmental management system." KU Leuven Faculty of Economics and Business, Belgium.
5. Defining direction and strategy: "This process has enabled valuable critical discussions on the topic of responsible management education and its role across the institution. Putting the report together creates involvement and the final report serves as a proof that PRME activities are conducted beyond the CBS Office of Responsible Management Education and across the organisation... It helps us define our direction and strategy." Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
6. Tracking and benchmarking progress: "Completing the SIP report on a yearly basis has facilitated our ability to track our activities, capture and benchmark the breadth of initiatives across campus, and motivate faculty, staff and students to build on these experiences, encouraging them to take them to the next level." Bentley University, United States.
7. Identifying where more can be done: "We have been able to see the gaps and areas of improvement towards achievement of the Principles and set out improvement plans where we are not doing well. This has also created more awareness and closer engagement with the Principles." KCA University, Kenya.
8. Fostering a sense of achievement: "Our first audience for the report was internal; it was a way of documenting and celebrating some of the excellent work in which our colleagues are engaged. The more we all learn about the work of our colleagues, the greater the opportunities are for new collaborations between us, and this is at the very heart of our inter-disciplinary School." Glasgow Caledonian University, United Kingdom.
9. Creating new synergies and collaborations: "Our baseline report gives [readers] a primer on all of the various social impact initiatives and programmes at Berkeley-Haas, which accelerates the conversations we're able to have with our employees, advisors and students. We're able to spend less time explaining who we are and more time focusing on areas of collaboration and growth." The Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, United States.
10. Promoting PRME's impact globally: "Public reporting of SIP ensures the credibility of the PRME initiative and facilitates the exchange of good practices among the PRME network and beyond." Monash University Faculty of Business and Economics, Australia.
The focal point for every Signatory Member has access PRME Commons. If your institution has experienced a recent faculty change that affects who is responsible for PRME-related matters, please update the contact's name, title, and email address ASAP. Please contact our team at info@unprme.org if you are not able to reset your password or would like to change the admin email used on your institution's PRME profile.
The SIP reporting period is 1 March at 8 AM (ET) to 30 June at 11:59 PM (EDT).
New joiners do not need to submit a SIP until the year after joining. For example, Signatories joining PRME in 2025 do not need to submit a SIP until 2026.
Signatories, excluding new joiners, who fail to submit a SIP within the submission period will be listed as ‘Non-communicating’ on their Signatory profile.
‘Non-communicating’ Signatories who do not submit a late SIP by 31 December 2024 will be ‘Delisted’ from PRME in 2025.
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The Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) Report is a pillar in the PRME community - a resource for storytelling, a tool for internal and external accountability, and a strategic document for many in their accreditation processes. To recognize the time put into compiling these reports and to honor the efforts in transparency from the community, the PRME Recognition for Excellence in SIP Reporting was created.
SIPs will be submitted via PRME Commons, to which all Signatory Members have access via their focal point. If you do not have access, please write to us at commons@unprme.org.
PRME will follow a similar submission period to the UN Global Compact’s Communication on Progress (CoP), receiving reports from Signatory Members annually from 1 March - 30 June.
The deadline for the reporting period is 30 June annually. No extensions will be provided. You will still be able to submit past the 30 June deadline, but your institution will be marked as "Non-Communicating" from that date until your submission date (must be before or on 31 December annually). Once you submit the report your status will be reverted to "Communicating".
Reporting applies to all PRME Signatories. New joiners will submit their first SIP report the year after they join.
The report should cover the previous calendar year (a 2024 SIP report should cover the 2023 calendar year).
The 2025 SIP preview is coming soon!
We have a preview of the SIP (2025 coming soon), but encourage all members to work on their SIP within PRME Commons.
Signatories, excluding new joiners, who fail to submit a SIP within the submission period will be listed as ‘Non-communicating’ on their Signatory profile. ‘Non-communicating’ Signatories who do not submit a late SIP by 31 December will be ‘Delisted’ from PRME on 1 January the following year.
Signatories must answer all of the questions, upload all of the objects, and complete all the narratives required for each Principle to have a complete submission. The SIP preview (2025 coming soon!) will provide a comprehensive overview of what is required. Objects and narratives may change based on your question responses, and therefore required objects and narratives can vary for each signatory.
The Recognition for Excellence in SIP Reporting will be presented at the 2024 PRME Global Forum and will recognize reports submitted between 1 May 2023 and 29 February 2024, under the original SIP reporting logic, according to the regular criteria and peer review process that PRME has adhered to for the last several years. SIP Reports submitted in the 2.0 format during the new universal reporting period between 28 March - 31 August 2024 will be recognized in 2025.
The time it takes to complete a SIP report varies widely across institutions. The new reporting method is intended to be more direct and clear on what to report on, and could take more or less time than the previous reporting method, depending on the level of detail that is included.
No. The intention of the new reporting model is to create a mechanism for measuring impact and self-progress, contributing to the development of our community.
To log into the Commons platform, please use the e-mail address you use to sign into your institution’s profile on the PRME website. An invitation to create an account on the platform should have been sent to this email address. If you have not received the invitation or are not able to log in, please email us at commons@unprme.org.
Yes, in fact, we encourage it! Focal points of Signatory Members have admin access to their institutional account on PRME Commons and can invite other users to the institutional account.
Admins:
Supervisors can:
Contributors can:
Members can:
Yes, you can work on your SIP report in stages and save as you go. However, once you submit your report you cannot edit it again.
All other Signatory Members will be able to see your answers to the questionnaire when you submit your SIP. However, you have the option to choose who views your objects and narratives. They can be set to private (only those who have access to your institutional account), PRME community only (only Signatory Members within PRME Commons), or public (anyone viewing the publicly shared SIP report).
Additionally, you can create various 'views' of your SIP report in your privacy settings to tailor to your various audiences.
You will be able to download your completed report once submitted. This download will include all of your objects and narratives, including the private ones visible only to you. The report uploaded to the PRME website will be the "public" view, and will only include objects and narratives that you have selected as public.
Note that you can change the viewing permissions on your objects and narratives after submission.
After 15 years of SIP Reporting on the Principles for Responsible Management Education, we have recognized the importance of the Signatory Members’ SIP Reports as a way of reporting their PRME implementation journey within their institutions and as a way of communicating these advances to internal and external stakeholders. Since its implementation in 2008 there are more than 2,800 reports available on the PRME website, evidencing the commitment of the Signatories within the environment of responsible management education.
During this period, different stakeholders have collaborated for the evolution of sustainability and impact reporting, whether in the higher education or business environment, since multiple frameworks and many metrics are emerging and growing in importance. With the advancement of visibility around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) metrics, these topics have taken the lead in the need to "walk the talk". Building on an era of advancing the Principles for Responsible Management Education, with an action-oriented mindset, a new SIP reporting scheme can strengthen the convergence of responsible management education, impact and responsible business.
The PRME Sub-Committee on Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) Impact was created by PRME’s Board on 30 November 2020. This Sub-Committee operated under the umbrella of the PRME Board’s Committee on Nomination and Governance. The original purpose of this Sub-Committee was to support and provide PRME Signatories with inspiration for more precise Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) goal-setting and a more thorough recording system for business school activities and impact on sustainable development.
The Sub-Committee was led by Wilfred Mijnhardt (Rotterdam School of Management), supported by the PRME Secretariat, and consists of a group of members from the global PRME community. The members were selected based on their professional expertise in SDGs, impact, and impact reporting. The Sub-Committee is composed with respect to diversity (e.g. gender, geography, and ethnicity).
The objective for creating a Sub-Committee was to design a renewed and helpful reporting logic with regards to responsible management education and sustainable development for Signatory Members that aligns with the changing institutional environment. Intended to last from January until June 2021, the committee grew in its relevance and impact, having its mandate expanded, and ending its activities in June 2023.
As deliverables of the Committee, the Terms of Reference indicated that the group should:
Design a renewed SIP/impact reporting logic for Signatory Members, making good use of accreditation, stakeholder and sustainability reporting schemata, respecting the institution’s mission and context.
Produce an overview of relevant impact reporting schemes and indicators aligned with the Principles for Responsible Management Education and relevant schemata for sustainability reporting, including a set of illustrations of productive impact reporting practices from PRME Signatories.
Recommendation for a new infrastructure/platform for reporting under PRME orchestration: The reporting infrastructure can be more or less technology driven. Either the platform can evolve into a database/data graph-based platform with dynamic reporting facilities using smart and open science technology (making use of technology like AI and persistent identifiers (PID) logic). Or the alternative can be a more traditional document based periodic/thematic reporting mechanism.
To achieve this goal, Committee members met in 23 online meetings from 2021-2023, with a trajectory of activities divided in four phases:
Phase 1: Development of SIP Logic - January to July 2021
During this period, the group worked on defining the terms of reference, and reflecting on the current structure of SIP reporting, through alignment with external stakeholders and inspiration from different ranking models, accreditation and the UN Global Compact.
Phase 2: Consultation process and resourcing - September to December 2021
The consultations had two objectives:
Reflect on the intention to update the Principles and include a new Principle focused on resilience.
Explore the participants' perception of the new logic of SIP reporting as well as inputs regarding potential indicators and narratives for each Principle.
Phase 3: Operationalization - January to July 2022
Phase three was very important for addressing the feedback offered by the PRME community and directing the Committee's decisions. Some decisions were fundamental, such as the process of approaching and aligning with rankings and accreditors, identifying indicators and potential narratives, in addition to directing fundraising strategies to support the construction of the PRME Commons.
Phase 4: Setting the stage for implementation - September 2022 to May 2023
With the announcement of a partnership between PRME and the Economics of Mutuality Foundation (EOM), the work of the SIP Committee was dedicated to creating a solid platform for the strengthening of this partnership.
In this sense, the Committee solidified the Five Design Principles that guides the transition to SIP 2.0 as a way to create the foundations for the platform, in addition to having carried out a new consultation with the PRME community in relation to a new set of questions and indicators for reporting.
Five Design Principles:
1. Beneficial to multiple users
SIP creates value for individual faculty members and students, as well as center directors, deans, and admissions/placement/development officers, and the many external stakeholder who care about the state of business education in the world today (firms, NGOs/NFPs, government, media, prospective students and alumni, donors). It helps those who are doing the day-to-day teaching, research and learning in the business schools, as well as those who are designing and leading the initiatives to better the teaching and learning environment in the schools, and those in the world who affect and are affected by the schools’ work.
2. Inspire for creativity & learning towards progress
Enable emulation, foster problem solving, encourage collaboration, and in the end, make a better world.
3. Use the power of evidence based strategic narratives
Convinced of the power of story-telling, we want to capture narrative reports of a school’s work and add the counts and analytics of initiatives and quantitative assessments of impact.
4. Institutional learning journey
We want to hear about how the schools plan and implement their initiatives, their success (and yes, struggles and failures), and of course, the impact of their work. We want our members to be able to learn from each other and explore each other’s work at any time.
5. Inspired by open science values and smart technology
Explore the emerging (selective open) knowledge base of stored information and analytics that will help business schools serve society by helping each member school best serve its own internal and external stakeholders.
Access the End Report of the Sub-Committee on Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) Impact.
Between December 2022 and January 2023, a call was launched for the PRME community, inviting institutions that were interested in piloting the new PRME reporting logic, through the SIP Questionnaire. A group of 25 schools engaged in a 3-month process in order to meet the expectations below:
Set the new global tone for developing and implementing a new logic of business school reporting on sustainable development reporting (i.e. SDG, ESG, CSR, RME) with a set of guidelines that will be used in the future for all PRME community and other stakeholders (such as accreditations and local/global rankings);
Provide recommendations for a new infrastructure/platform for reporting under PRME expectations;
Collaborate with leading HEIs and the SIP Committee members on a project of value to the PRME community by contributing to the flagship project PRME Commons;
Inspire creativity & learning towards progress by enabling emulation, foster problem solving, encourage collaboration, and in the end, make a better world.
Learn with the journey as the new logic seeks to create a process of self-reflection within the institution based on different levels of progress and maturity;
Inspired by open science values and smart technology, explore the emerging (selective open) knowledge base of stored information that will help business schools serve the world by helping each member school best serve its own internal and external stakeholders.
