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News Introducing the 2024-2025 PRME Champions
17 January, 2024 New York, United States

Introducing the 2024-2025 PRME Champions

PRME is pleased to announce the new cohort of PRME Champions for 2024-2025. This cohort boasts 47 PRME Signatory Members with a track record of impactful contributions in thought and action leadership. Each institution was selected to join the cohort by the PRME Secretariat from a pool of strong and diverse applicants.

The PRME Champions represent a group of dedicated business and management schools from across the PRME community that are committed to working collaboratively to develop and promote activities that address shared barriers for the PRME community, and which deliver value for business and society at large. Previous collaborations by PRME Champions include the Climate Literacy Training for Business Schools, the Blueprint for SDG Integration and its extended library, and more.

The focus of the 2024-2025 Champions cycle will be on advancing the re-commitment to the refreshed Seven Principles of PRME; engagement in Thematic Roundtables for generating ideas and solutions to institutional challenges within business schools that support the PRME strategy; and aligning with the vision of the United Nations Global Compact in completing actions toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Additionally, the 2024-2025 Champions will be essential in curating content to contribute to PRME Commons - the upcoming digital space for accountability, exchanges and learning between members of the PRME community. Additional outputs from the Champions Programme will be determined by the cohort’s collaborative agenda, and the PRME community eagerly anticipates high impact from the group.

As a flagship PRME programme, the PRME Champions Programme provides faculty members with a space for developing and sharing collaborative educational methods and a ‘living lab’ for ambitious new ideas for developing the next generation of sustainability-driven business schools and management-related higher education institutions in support of the SDGs.

2024-2025 PRME Champions

  • Aalto University School of Business, Finland

  • Audencia Business School, France

  • Berlin School of Business and Innovation, Germany

  • Budapest Business University, Hungary

  • Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada

  • Cork University Business School (CUBS) and the Irish Management Institute (IMI), University College Cork, Ireland

  • CUNEF Universidad, Spain

  • Deakin Business School, Australia

  • EGADE Business School, Mexico

  • ESIC Business & Marketing School, ESIC University, Spain

  • Freeman College of Management, Bucknell University, United States

  • Goa Institute of Management (GIM), India

  • Gordon Institute of Business Science, South Africa

  • Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph, Canada

  • IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia

  • International Business School Suzhou at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

  • International Institute of Management Development (IMD), Switzerland

  • Iscte Business School, Portugal

  • ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa Portugal

  • John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Canada

  • Keele University, United Kingdom

  • Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland

  • Kristianstad University, Sweden

  • La Trobe Business School, Australia

  • Loughborough Business School, United Kingdom

  • Newcastle Business School, United Kingdom

  • Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

  • Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

  • Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, United States

  • Queen's Business School, United Kingdom

  • School of Business, Government, and Economics, Seattle Pacific University, United States

  • School of Business, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia

  • School of Business, Woxsen University, India

  • Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Canada

  • Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

  • T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

  • UC Business School, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

  • Universidad Externado de Colombia, Colombia

  • University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons, Switzerland

  • University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB), South Africa

  • University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  • University of Dundee School of Business, Scotland, United Kingdom

  • University of Nicosia, Cyprus

  • University of Plymouth, United Kingdom

  • University of Sussex Business School, United Kingdom

  • University of Winchester, United Kingdom

  • Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) School of Management and Law, Switzerland

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