The Foundation Meeting for the PRME Regional Chapter UK & Ireland was held on Friday, 10th May 2013 at Aston Business School.

Thirty-two delegates of PRME signatory Business and Management Schools from across the UK and Ireland came together to agree the Constitution and Steering Committee and to discuss ideas on the role, activities and events for the new Chapter.

Delegates were welcomed by Professor Dame Julia King, Vice Chancellor of Aston University and hosted by Carole Parkes Aston Business School and Alan Murray, Winchester Business School. Christian Herzig, Nottingham Business School, presented research on "Business Schools' Self Presentations on Social Responsibility and Sustainability in SIPS reports", Jon Peters, Greenleaf Publishing discussed developments on publishing and PRME initiatives and Steve Kenzie, Secretariat for the UK Network of the UN Global Compact presented insights from the Network.

Delegates then discussed ideas on the role, activities and proposed events for the new Chapter and produced a wide range of exciting suggestions and outline plans for the future!

Officers and Steering Committee of the Chapter:

Chair Alan Murray, Winchester Business School (& host for the Secretariat) Vice Chair Carole Parkes, Aston Business School Treasurer, Alec Wersun, Glasgow Caledonian University Secretary Natalia Yakovleva, Winchester Business School Steering

The Committee Members of the Chapter: Paul Cashian, Coventry University David Clemson, London South Bank University Joanne Cook, University of Hull Sheila Killian, University of Limerick Jonathan Gosling, University of Exeter.

Call for Papers for the 2013 PRI-CDC Academic Conference in Paris (France), at the Caisse des Dépôts, with the theme Investing for Sustainable and Long-Term Returns. The conference will take place from 13-15 November, 2013.

The first day will be a Student Symposium where students will present their research. The main conference will be on 14-15 November.

The final day of submissions for both papers and workshops is the 31 August.

For those wishing to compete for the PRI-FIR Award, please note the selection criteria and the earlier date for submission of July 15, 2013.

Business and management graduate students are invited to participate in an international study on responsible management. Please note that the survey closes on 30 May 2013.

The survey is an initiative by fellow PRME Signatory, Macquarie Graduate School of Management (Australia), and the PRME Secretariat, with the support of an advisory committee of PRME signatory institutions (Bentley University, IAE, China Europe International Business School, Euromed Management and Aston Business School). It aims to examine responsible management attitudes among business and management graduate students around the world. We are only requesting the participation of graduate students (not undergraduates).

As you may recall, we conducted an earlier survey 18 months, ago and the results of the previous study can be found here. We continue to run the survey with the goal of measuring global trends.

The survey does not intend to evaluate individual institutions, but rather to observe overall trends. Responses from students of PRME participating schools will be analysed against responses from many other academic institutions around the world, and the anonymous results will be presented at the 2013 PRME Summit - 5th Annual Assembly on 25-26 September 2013 in Bled, Slovenia (register here).

Please share the link(s) to the survey with your graduate students. To increase participation and social inclusion, this year we include 4 versions of the survey:

• English
• Spanish
• French
• Chinese

For further information, please email Dr. Debbie Haski-Leventhal (Debbie.Haski-Leventhal@mgsm.edu.au), lead researcher.

We appreciate your collaboration, and we look forward to sharing the results of this year’s survey with you in Bled!

Highlight your school's unique efforts to implement PRME through a 500-1000 word Case Story!

Co-organisers CEEMAN and the PRME Secretariat invite contributions of inspirational case stories for inclusion in the 2013 PRME Summit – 5th Annual Assembly, scheduled for 25-26 September 2013 in Bled, Slovenia.

Selected cases, based on a blind review process, will directly inform the event programme, be highlighted throughout the Summit, published in the event proceedings, highlighted on the PRiMEtime blog, and/or included in the Inspirational Guide 2.0 (view the original Inspirational Guide here).

The Summit will focus on New Ways of Developing Leaders for the Future We Want, which will be discussed through the four inter-related sessions based on the 4 “I”s of PRME - Inspiration, Innovation, Implementation, Impact. Inspirational case stories, to be submitted in the format noted below, should build upon tangible progress made since the 3rd Global Forum at Rio+20 and focus on Impact.

Submission and review timeline:

• Case story submission: 30 April 2013
• Blind review, selection and author notification: Before 3 June 2013
• Publication: End of August, early September 2013
• Authors of selected case stories are expected to register and attend the Summit on25-26 September in Bled.

Requested format for contribution:

Name, affiliation, address, and email address of the author (sent by email to Ms. Špela Horjak, CEEMAN Head of Operations, at spela.horjak@ceeman.org) with the Case Story (500-1000 words) in attachment:

• TITLE OF THE CASE STORY

• INTRODUCTION (50-200 Words)
  Paragraph that introduces/highlights what category of Impact (related to the Six Principles for Responsible Management Education) the case story addresses:
  P3 – Method/Curriculum Change
  P4 – Research/Publication
  P5 – Partnership
  P6 – Dialogue

• CASE STORY (500-800 Words)
  1. Challenges faced
  2. Actions taken
  3. Results/Benefits (already materialised and/or expected)
  4. 3+ bullet points on the role of PRME/sustainability principles

Following requests from different parts of the world, the deadline for application for the Business in Society and other disciplinary tracks at the CEEMAN’s International Management Teachers Academy – IMTA 2013, to be held on 2-14 June 2013 in Bled, Slovenia, has been extended. The applications will be processed on a “first come-first serve” basis.

The disciplinary track on Teaching Business in Society will be run by Prof. Tony Buono, Professor of Management and Sociology and Executive Director, Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility, USA.

IMTA is an innovative faculty development program aimed at developing a new generation of management educators for the new of generation of effective and responsible business leaders. The program, structured around the multiple roles of faculty helps participants improve their knowledge, skills and attitudes related to general and discipline-specific aspects of management education (Strategy, Finance/Accounting, Marketing, Leadership and Change Management, Business in Society).

In the past 13 years, 448 management educators from 135 institutions and 37 countries around the globe attended the program, which places a high emphasis on social responsibility of management educators.

CEEMAN provides special scholarships for participants from Africa and Latin America, while in the 20^th jubilee year of CEEMAN, participants from other parts of the world will enjoy the most preferential conditions, as those for CEEMAN members.

For more information, please contact Mr. Milenko Gudić, IMTA Managing Director, milenko.gudic@ceeman.org, or visit www.ceeman.org/imta.

CEEMAN, a global association of 207 members from 52 countries and PRME Steering Committee member, will co-organize and host the 2013 PRME Summit on 25-26 September 2013 in Bled, Slovenia, when CEEMAN will also celebrate its 20th anniversary.