This semester, we again ran a successful course with students at the FPM focusing on Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainable Business/ESG Management and Financing, and currently primarily on the implementation of the CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive).
The course was conducted in cooperation with BLF member companies (EUBA is an associate member), other responsible/sustainable companies in the Slovak Republic that apply ethical business based on ESG principles.
We focused intensively on the central themes of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) dedicated to the ethical minimum, compliance program and ethics program; ethical dilemmas and ethical issues within stakeholder groups. This year also specifically on ESG management and controlling inclusive diversity of the disadvantaged, community investment, and dominantly on reporting systems on CSR, ESG and SDGs in adequate forms of NFRD (Non-Financial Reporting Directive), CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) and SFDR (Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation). The courses in both languages (SJ and Aj) were concentrated on the application of the real case study method authentically communicated by the manager responsible for ESG/CSR/SDGs - in essence, it is about solving ethical dilemmas and problems directly with experts from practice (in a moderated way by the educator), with the possibility of open constructive discussion.
After several successful years of applied real case studies, we can see a visible positive effect in the form of excellent knowledge and superior ability to apply it very quickly (in the exam, in the final thesis, orientation in practical corporate behaviour in professional discussions, and also in additional educational and dissemination forms - e.g. participation in the Sustainability Festival, Our Town, etc.).
On behalf of our students/participants of the course, we express our sincere thanks (also in this form) to all stakeholders for their inspiring engagement, friendly erudite cooperation and very attractive motivational methodological sustainability input for the formation of moral social awareness in favour of ethical ESG behaviour in young prospective managers and economists for the future.
