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Applications to join the PRME Global Students (PGS) are open!

Do you want to join a United Nations initiative and work alongside worldwide students to advance sustainability?

Are you looking for international projects to develop your management and leadership skills?

Are you ready to be the change you wish to see in the world?

Apply now to join the PGS teams in July 2023!

PGS is looking for worldwide changemakers with an empathetic and proactive mindset in addressing sustainability willing to dedicate their energy and expertise to managing our impactful projects!

We currently have two categories of volunteering positions available: PGS Regional Leaders (nine seats) and PGS Taskforce Members (numerous seats in seven projects).

All PRME students are encouraged to apply for both Regional Leader and Taskforce Member positions!!!

Please check all details using the links below.

Regional Leader:

Taskforce Member:

Applications end on 28 May 2023 (23:59 EDT). Don't lose time; apply now!

Purpose

PRME Global Students (PGS) is a global platform for fruitful and creative collaboration, collective reflection, and joyful interactions between and beyond student organizations in the realm of responsible management education and sustainable development.

Student initiatives are influential drivers of change on campus, and all of our movements make a critical statement for the future we imagine. After every purposeful action, our voices get louder, and we increasingly move into the spotlight within and beyond our schools. But we cannot do all this work alone. And we are not alone.

The PGS Portfolio is composed of seven strategic projects:

PGS Newsletter – Sign up here!
Social Media
Student Voice at the PRME Blog
PGS Journey4Impact
Careers Program
Student Ambassador Program
PGS Talks

Each project is currently coordinated by one or two PGS Regional Leaders who lead their global taskforces that together are comprised of 42 students from 18 different countries. Please check all PGS Global Taskforce members here.

History

2021 Collaborative Development Process

To lead the programmatic development of a global network by and for students, the PRME Secretariat established the PGS Regional Leaders team with nine student leaders from all five continents (see more details here <link to Governance>). Together, the PGS Regional Leaders were able to map 312 operating student organizations within the PRME global community and actively engaged more than 40 of them in PGS’s programmatic development activities.

Divided into Research and Design Phases, the PGS Collaborative Development Process engaged 65+ students from more than 25 countries to come together and co-create their own global network within PRME. From a network evolution perspective, the engaged students were simultaneously the pioneering ‘builders’ and the ultimate ‘users’ of the PGS network.

During the PGS Research Phase, students were gathered in 12 rounds of constructive global conversations called PGS Collective Circles. By engaging in a fruitful exchange of experiences, they shared the challenges faced by their organizations while taking action in the field and brainstormed potential ways for global cooperation that would ultimately benefit and empower their local student agency.

While hearing and learning from each other’s local affairs, participants agreed upon and established three strategic action-oriented directions entitled the PGS Fundamental Pillars – Awareness, Advocacy, and Collective Action.

The PGS Design Phase was comprised of 12 design think labs. The ultimate goal was to brainstorm a set of projects to address all three pillars' objectives. Once the PGS Portfolio was defined, we divide all participants into PGS Global Taskforces to develop and implement these projects by 2022.

Join PGS

Are you a student willing to come together with other student initiatives worldwide, share your experience, and begin an exploration together about what could ease and amplify the work you are doing?

Are you a professor enthusiastic about youth protagonism in global issues willing to contribute to PGS and get your students closer to our international network?

Please get in touch with the PGS Regional Leader in your continent (see Contact Us page) to get more information about how to engage with the PRME Global Students movement.

Students and/or their organizations can engage with the PGS movement in two exciting ways:

Active Engagement - "The Builders":

Students can apply to become PGS Regional Leaders or integrate the PGS Global Taskforces. In both positions, students will actively join efforts with other worldwide youth leaders to collaboratively build the PGS movement.

These are outstanding opportunities to engage with colleagues beyond your campus and countries, thus applying your knowledge and learning how to manage international projects and emphatically collaborate with contributors from diverse backgrounds. An extraordinary lab within the United Nations to develop the 21st Century Skills, which are much needed to advance sustainability and responsible management across the decades to go!

More details on the application processes are coming soon!

Passive Engagement - "The Users":

All networks are made by users who are equally vital as builders! So, if you don't have enough time or capacity to actively build PGS initiatives, we still need you! Please explore our projects as tools to empower your student agency and leverage the impact of your student organization!

OK, but, how may you engage?

See examples of user engagement below:

Looking for communication channels to promote your actions, activities, and projects? Share your student agency through the PGS Newsletter and Social Media!
Organizing an event and need help? Call PGS Talks for support!
Want to publish your recent research findings or write a provocative article about sustainable development? Share your ideas with the Student Voice at the PRME Blog!
Facing challenges in measuring the impact of your student organization? Get some insights from the PGS Journey4Impact!
Searching for more knowledge on corporate sustainability and SDGs? Apply to the PGS Student Ambassador Program and be trained by cutting-edge scholars from the PRME Working Groups.
Seeking an internship, scholarship, or job opportunity? Explore the services provided by the Careers Program.

Portfolio

Journey4Impact

Journey4Impact recognizes the power and impact student organizations have towards achieving the SDGs around the globe. To leverage this, we are developing a framework and community for students to measure and plan initiatives that maximize local impact. In tandem, impact will be maximized as a global community of student changemakers, PRME Global Students.

More specifically, the Journey4Impact addresses the criteria for internal and external impact, by developing standards and metrics that every student organization can use to leverage, measure, and communicate its impact in their communities.

Planned Activities

July onwards:

Interviewing selected SO’s as primary research
Secondary research: Using different impact assessment documents by different organizations as a base of our secondary research
Preparation of the first draft of an impact assessment document
Workshops

Journey4Impact Taskforce

Shivani Narvekar

Taskforce Coordinator

The Energy and Resource Institute School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi (India)

Keara Bakshi

Taskforce Member

The Energy and Resource Institute School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi (India)

Shashwat Kashyap

Taskforce Member

New Delhi Institute of Management (India)

Anusha Nayak

Taskforce Member

T.A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal, Karnataka (India)

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The PGS Newsletter is a monthly online publication where subscribers receive information about our global student network, including:

impactful actions by student organizations across the globe
best practices toward sustainability by students worldwide
jobs, internships, scholarships, and other opportunities
and more!

The Taskforce will be responsible for aggregating and editing the materials received from PGS contributors as well as formatting and launching the Newsletter every two months.

Planned Activities

PGS Newsletter Taskforce

Saiyam Jain

Taskforce Coordinator

XLRI - Xavier School of Management (Jamshedpur, India)

Fatemeh Zarei

Taskforce Member

ZHAW School of Management and Law (Winterthur,Switzerland)

Hasti Trivedi

Taskforce Member

Conestoga School of Business (Ontario, Canada)

Noureddine Manad

Taskforce Member

Institut Mines-Télécom Business School (Evry, France)

Pedro Ricardo Berrocal Heredia

Taskforce Member

Universidad de Lima (Lima, Peru)

Vemula Sai Naveen

Taskforce Member

T. A. Pai Management Institute (Bengaluru, India)

Yibrana Lucero Nunez Moreno

Taskforce Member

CETYS Universidad (Baja California, Mexico)

Williams Oluwatosin Adefila

Taskforce Member

EUCLID University (Banjul, Gambia)

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PGS Careers

The PGS Careers aims to develop initiatives to improve the employability skills of PGS participants, connecting them to potential mentors and employees that can be beneficial to their careers.

The current program is the Mentorship Program. PGS Careers will provide PRME students the opportunities to converse with mentors, improving their employability skills and helping them to have a clearer sense of career plans. When confirmed to attend this program, students will be paired with a mentor and can attend the group mentorship online. Mentors are experts in SDGs-related areas, they might be from schools, enterprises, NGOs, etc. Students can get career advice from mentors and also meet friends who are also passionate about promoting sustainable development globally. Apart from that, students can also join sessions related to SDGs to have a better understanding of sustainability and responsible management. In the future, more information related to careers will be offered to connect students with companies and job opportunities.

PGS Careers will keep operating careers-related programs beneficial to participants in our community. Empowering students, linking them with experienced talents and opportunities, and leading them to a bright future!

Planned Activities

Mentorship Program

PGS Careers Taskforce

Huijin Ju

Taskforce Coordinator

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China)

Bruno Maymone Couto

Taskforce Member

University of São Paulo (Brazil)

Palash Khobragade

Taskforce Member

Indira School of Business Studies (India)

Shahd Muhammed Elsayed

Taskforce Member

The British University (Egypt)

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PGS Talks

For us to form deeper connections and make our mark in this world, we must learn how to speak up, listen, and act. PGS's vision is to empower students all over the globe and to help increase their local and international connections. PGS Talks is where those visions come alive.

All the events created by PGS Talks embody the three pillars of PGS: Awareness, Advocacy, and Collective Action. Through our events, we plan to advocate for and spread awareness of the social and environmental issues that PRME aims to address. We seek every opportunity to provide students with a platform to speak, because we know their ability to think critically and inspire, and this demographic is often underrepresented. Unity emerges as people take the time to understand and sharpen one another, and PGS Talks enables this exchange. As a result, our events allow students, professionals, and organizations of various backgrounds to collaborate in solving the world’s most pressing issues.

Planned Activities

International Campaign for Mental Health Day (October 10)
Celebration of World Children’s Day (November 20)
Year-end get-gathering with PGS Family

PGS Talks Taskforce

Mary Besar

Taskforce Coordinator

University of St. La Salle (Philippines)

Alejandro Bravo

Taskforce Member

Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (Madrid, Spain)

Ankita Ramesh Ahire

Taskforce Member

Indira School of Business Studies Pune (India)

Bogac Ayhan

Taskforce Member

University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)

Marina Miharu Santana

Taskforce Member

University of Sydney Business School (Sydney, Australia)

Ramathas Abinaya

Taskforce Member

Neoma Business School (Reims, France)

Shaheen Laalje

Taskforce Member

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

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Social Media

What better way to connect students and young people all over the world together and have purposeful interactions, than with social media accounts dedicated to responsible management and sustainability? PGS Social Media task force operates on 3 platforms: Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, with a growing audience of about 1,000 student followers from all over the world. We are here to promote the presence of PGS and young people who care about responsible management education, by working alongside all other taskforces in bringing out the latest sustainability news, programs, and activities.

Responsible and sustainable management is interesting, challenging and exciting! That is why we operate to keep students and young people well involved in every step of PGS journey of advocating responsible innovation and empowerment. We believe that great changes can be made with collectible small actions. With just a click, a like, a share, a quick comment, at any time in the day, anywhere and on any device, you are already contributing to the movement of responsibility and sustainability. Utilizing the wonder of social media, we are building a community of young people who care deeply about the current social, ecological problems and about making the world a better place. We as admins and content creators are always on the watch out for the latest transformation and hot topic, as well as the latest activities and opportunities that are economically, socially and ecologically beneficial. We want to keep ourselves and the audience updated and inspired, by being a trustful, timely interactive purposeful social platform. So, (as always) follow us now on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram under PRME Global Students!

Planned Activities

Along with promoting various projects from other PGS task forces, we run PGS social media platforms Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram with informative, educational and interactive content. Some of our weekly topics are:

Sustainability flash news
Responsible management 101
Sustainability knowledge trivia
Sustainable projects shout-out

We constantly interact with our audience, read their comments, and reply to any questions they have.

PGS Social Media Taskforce

Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao

Taskforce Coordinator

Ostbayerische Technische HochschuleAmberg-Weiden (Germany)

Mey Westlake

Taskforce Member

University of Guelph (Canada)

Aditi Deotkar

Taskforce Member

Indira School of Business Studies (India)

Runeet Kaur Arora

Taskforce Member

XLRI, Xavier School of Management (India)

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Student Ambassador Program

Empowering students through learning opportunities on responsible management, sustainability, and sustainable goals — this is the Ambassador’s Program! We aim to prepare a selected and diversified group of students in the advancement of the SDG’s so that in the future they may implement systemic changes within their environments. Thus, our goal is to bring international students together around sustainability and SDGs-focused topics to inspire and empower them. To accomplish this, the program creates spaces for project development through working groups where the students, equipped with knowledge, tools, and skills, can be responsible leaders. We believe that our Ambassadors can bring value to their respective student organizations, universities and communities, while keeping in touch with our taskforce, other Ambassadors, and guest speakers. Each program has a 10-week duration focusing on one region. Previous regions include Latin America and France-Benelux. However, this description does not completely resume our Ambassadors’ profiles: they are from +20 different nationalities, which enriches the program even more. There is space for acculturation throughout the program, which is structured in sessions with guest speakers who master some of the most important topics for that region. Behind these facts, there is a wonderful taskforce that works to provide an amazing experience to students and that is always open for hearing from the PGS community! The PGS Ambassador Program is a unique learning opportunity for everyone, whether they are students, taskforce members, guest speakers, and more!

Planned Activities

Previously, we have had a pilot program in Latin America, and a second edition between April and July (2022) with France-Benelux. For this upcoming third edition, we plan on replicating the program from November 2022 to January 2023.

Student Ambassador Program Taskforce

Diana Rebelo Rodriguez

Taskforce Co-coordinator

Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil)

Léa Hein

Taskforce Co-coordinator

McGill University (Canada)

Andre Olivier

Taskforce Member

Gordon Institute of Business (South Africa)

Ignacio Paz

Taskforce Member

Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros (Spain)

Shotaro Hirano

Taskforce Member

KU Leuven/Keio University (Belgium/Japan)

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Student Voice at PRME Blog

The Student Voice at the PRME Blog is a bi-monthly student voice column at The PRME Blog, which is a blog specializing in high-level content about sustainability and responsible management.

The Taskforce will be responsible for aggregating and editing the articles and OpEds received from PGS contributors as well as potentially writing their own pieces.

We collect the voices of students all over the world to let people know what we, the younger generations, are doing in order to make this society more sustainable for all. Students have the strength to provide unique, new, and unexpected perspectives to cope with important problems this world confronts. We hope that this series of blogs become a source of inspiration and motivation for both adults and youths like us. So stop by to explore fresh words and ideas from students from various backgrounds, and if you are a student, please reach out to our team if you have thoughts and ideas to share with our dedicated audiences.

Planned Activities

Publishing voices of the taskforce members on topics they are familiar, or have strong motivation with.
Collecting voices from PGS members and students around the world (generally) on topics which are getting attention to by some international events, such as the UN event and international days.

Student Voice Taskforce

Satoko Hagino

Taskforce Co-coordinator

Tokyo University (Japan)

Emjay M. Brizuela

Taskforce Co-coordinator

University of St. La Salle (Philippines)

Utkarsh Sharma

Taskforce member

TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal (India)

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Governance

Regional Leaders

Natalia Martínez Rugeles

Latin America

Rosario University (Colombia)

Contact: pgs_latin.america@unprme.org

Vinati Konda

North America

George Mason University School of Business (USA)

Contact: pgs_north.america@unprme.org

Brendon Munashe Mahere

Africa

Al Akhawayn University (Morocco)

Contact: pgs_africa@unprme.org

Yu-Hao Hsu

East and Southeast Asia

ESSEC Business School (Singapore)

Contact: pgs_east.southeast.asia@unprme.org

Siddharth Chauhan

Central and South Asia

XLRI Jamshedpur (India)

Contact: pgs_south.central.asia@unprme.org

Navruz Erkaev

Eurasia

Almaty Management University (Kazakhstan)

Contact: pgs_eastern.europe@unprme.org

Taqwa Elforjani

Western Europe

Leeds University (United Kingdom)

Contact: pgs_western.europe@unprme.org

Bassem Eliwa

Middle East and North Africa

The British University of Egypt (Egypt)

Contact: pgs_middle.east@unprme.org

John Lee Jun Yang

Oceania

The University of Melbourne (Australia)

Contact: pgs_oceania@unprme.org

PGS Board

Mette Morsing

Head of PRME, United Nations Global Compact

Sophie Charrois

President of oikos International

Maxime Lakat

Executive Director, Re_Generation

Paulo Speroni

Coordinator of Youth Leadership & Innovation, PRME

Project Executive Leader

Contact: speroni@unglobalcompact.org

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If you are a student looking to get connected to the PGS Movement, please contact the Regional Leader that corresponds with your university's location.