Prepare for the Second Edition of the European Chamber Sustainable Business Awards. Join us on 11th December at the Information Session, which will take place from 14:30pm to 16:30pm at the European Chamber, Shanghai Office.
To attend the Information Session please contact Ms Laura Alvarez Mendivil at lamendivil@europeanchamber.com.cn, max. 2 attendees per company interested in participating in the 2018 Sustainable Business Awards. Walk-ins won't be accepted.
Building on the success of 1st European Chamber Sustainable Business Awards, the European Chamber Shanghai Chapter is pleased to announce the second edition of its Sustainable Business Awards to be held on 19th September 2018. Please read more below to learn about the different stages.
Timeline:
2017 SBA Case Study Session: 11 December 2017
Open for Submissions: 10 April 2018
Information Session with Experts: late April 2018
Close for Submissions: 29 June 2018
First Stage Assessment: 29th June 2018 to 30 July 2018
Second Stage Assessment: till 30 August 2018
Awards Ceremony: 19 September 2018
In partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and through SYNTAO as our technical partner. The Awards aim to acknowledge innovation leadership achievements, raise sustainability awareness, and share the responsible business model experiences with organizations looking to embrace responsible business competition in China. The European Chamber believes that there is an urgent need for European enterprises to build a sustainable business model which integrates social and environmental responsibilities into commercial activities and makes competitive responsibility a strong driver for future development which goes along with the EU 2020 targets and China’s long-term Sustainable Development Goals under China’s new leadership.
All applications will be assessed in a two-stage process by a jury representing a wide-variety of businesses, social organizations, and Think Tanks as well as our technical partner SROI methodology practitioner, GIZ. During the first stage, GIZ experts in the sustainability field conducting Sustainable Return on Investment, will analyse and evaluate all the cases collected and give scores. During the second stage, the judges’ panel will review and select award recipients for each category based on the criteria provided.
Submission period will open from 10th April 2018. European Chamber member companies are eligible and encouraged to apply. The deadline for submissions will be 29 June 2018. The award winners will be finally announced at the 2018 Sustainable Business Awards Ceremony on 19th September 2018. Selected application materials from winners will be published online and in the Chamber Shanghai Focus newsletter, candidates to the awards and various honorees will get the chance to be interviewed by our media partner.
In order to support Shanghai member companies to better fill in the awards application forms and understand the whole evaluation process when applying, we are organizing an information and case study session at the Chamber Shanghai office on 11 December at 14.30 -16.30 pm with experts from SYNTAO and GIZ to introduce the evaluation process and time frame as well as evaluation structures and answer general questions from the potential applicants, but also invited the judges who participated in the second evaluation process this year to talk about the interesting cases they evaluated and would like to share to call for more excellent cases for the next year. We would like to conduct this process to ensure the case collection process and evaluation credibility are well communicated to the applicants.
We warmly welcome you to join us at the Chamber office(Unit 2204, Shui On Plaza, 333 Huai Hai Zhong Road, Shanghai), should you have the interest to this Awards and would like to know more on the procedure.
Agenda:
14.30-14.40 Welcome the guest and introduce the Awards by Tiantian Qi, European Chamber Shanghai;
14.40-15.40 Case study sharing session with panelists: Mr. Jilai Peng, Partner, SYNTAO; Prof. Lydia Price, Professor for sustainability and leadership, CEIBS;
15.40-15.55 Cooperation with EUCCC SBA Introduction,by Dr Cinderella von Durgern, China Coordinator, Emerging Market Sustainability Dialogues (EMSD), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH;
15.55-16.00 Closing Remarks
