About
About
- How can we prepare the future generation to handle the global challenges?
WHY?
In +20 years today’s students at management-related university faculties and business schools will be leaders of companies, organizations and society. They will be facing great challenges in a world dominated by a growing population, climate change, lack of natural resources, increasing poverty, etc.
FOCUS
Based on the United Nations Rio-20 agenda for sustainable development and the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), the PRME LEADERS+20 Competition wants to set focus on crusial questions:
- How can we - as universities and business schools - prepare the future generation of leaders to handle these global challenges?
- How can we - as universities and business schools -provide the future generation of leaders with the skills and perspectives needed to create a sustainable development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs?
This competition turns these questions into action!
SUSTAINABILITY?
Sustainability was already a focal point at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. After 20 the World Summit on Sustainable Development will be held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 (Rio+20).
The Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development will focus on two main issues: (1) a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication; and (2) the institutional framework for sustainable development.
The Brundtland definition of sustainability:
”Development which meets the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs”
Sustainability can be understood as the end state whereas sustainable development is understood as the process of getting there.
TIMELINE
LAUNCH - DEADLINE (NEW Deadline - 1 April!)
16 January – 1 April 2012
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Launch on 16 January
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Submission possible
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Rating via Facebook “Likes” possible through Submission Platform
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Submission deadline – 1 April 2012
ASSESSMENT
1 April – 7 May 2012
- Screening process
- Members of the Award Committee place their individual votes
ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNING TEAMS
7 May 2012
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The winning teams are chosen and will be contacted personally
GLOBAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN RIO
14 June 2012 – presentation of prize at Rio+20
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The winning teams are announced at the PRME Global Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
OBJECTIVES
Awarding the most innovative ideas on how to address sustainable development as part of management education courses and curricula at business schools and management-related university faculties.
The PRME Leaders+20 Competition will focus on two main objectives:
- Encouraging lecturers at management-related university faculties and business schools to integrate sustainability aspects into their courses, programmes and general curricula
- Inspiring students to engage themselves in the adaptation and co-creation of their education by presenting ideas for integrating sustainability aspects in management-related courses
FOUNDERS
The founders of the PRME LEADERS+20 Competition are the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences, Denmark.
