| For the second year, HP was a sponsor of the CSR MarketPlace in Brussels on 29 November. More than 650 companies and organisations attended and around 90 showcased their CSR solutions at the event this year. The event was organised by CSR Europe which is Europe’s largest business network for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). |
Awards were given to the best CSR solutions and collaborative CSR Laboratories. Winners were selected by public vote and a vote from a jury. HP was honoured jointly alongside Volkswagen and Titan for its role in the CSR Laboratory focused on “Sustainability in supplier relations”  . |
| Karl Daumüller, programme manager, Global Procurement Services and lead auditor on the Supply Chain Social and Environmental (SC SER) programme who was presented with the award on behalf of HP, highlighted the benefits of a collaborative approach. |
| “Working together with companies that all face challenges and changes in their supply chain has been really beneficial. All members have benefited from this first phase of the collaboration to define our approach and focus areas,” Karl said. |
| “I am looking forward to the work we will do together over the course of 2008 to bring this Laboratory’s work to a conclusion,” he added. |
| The supply chain CSR Laboratory aims to build knowledge and create tools to facilitate supply chain management, focusing on key issues such as management systems, risk assessment and taking corrective action around issues of working hours, child labour, health and safety and environmental considerations. It focuses specifically on the geographic regions of Central and Eastern Europe and China. The supply chain Laboratory is one of 16 CSR Laboratories which were launched during 2007 under the umbrella of the European Alliance for CSR . |
| HP also presented its GET-IT initiative and the joint UNESCO/HP project on turning brain-drain into brain-gain in a number of African and South East European countries as part of the CSR MarketPlace. |
| HP GET-IT (Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT) empowers under- or unemployed young people with business and IT skills – helping them find a job or start their own businesses. The initiative was launched by HP and partners in May 2007 and consolidates the experience and work HP has done in this area over the last five years. |
| The GET-IT training initiative operates in 18 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and runs in collaboration with the Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute (MEA-I). GET-IT’s mission is to help young people master the dynamics of using of information technology in very small businesses. The GET-IT training curriculum is delivered exclusively through HP’s local partners in each country . |
Reversing Brain Drain into Brain Gain |
| HP and UNESCO are collaborating to pilot solutions for reversing brain drain into brain gain for Africa by addressing some of the causes why educated professionals and post-graduate academic staff leave their universities to continue their research overseas. |
| Working with universities in Algeria, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe, the project aims to re-establish links between researchers who have stayed in their native countries and those that have left, connecting scientists to international colleagues, research networks and funding opportunities. |
| This African project builds on the success the UNESCO-HP initiative launched in 2003 in seven countries in South East Europe to alleviate brain drain in the region. |
| The CSR MarketPlace is an annual event launched by CSR Europe in 2005 to showcase best practice in CSR and to encourage collaborations amongst companies or organisations in Europe to develop best practices further by working together in CSR laboratories. |
| 650 representatives from companies, NGOs, national governments, media and the European Commission attended the European MarketPlace on Corporate Social Responsibility in Brussels, organised for the third time by CSR Europe, a European business network with 24 national partner organisations and around 70 corporations as members. |
| Günter Verheugen, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Enterprise and Industry, and Vladimir Spidla, Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, opened the event and visited the MarketPlace where participants from all over Europe, the United States, Japan and China could explore 90 company CSR solutions and 16 CSR Laboratories. |
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Global Citizenship Reports 2006 |
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