Principle 5: Partnership

We will interact with managers of business corporations to extend our knowledge of their challenges in meeting social and environmental responsibilities and to explore jointly effective approaches to meeting these challenges.

CEMS Corporate Partners are given the opportunity to take part in the CEMS Board discussions and decisions concerning sustainability issues. The collaboration between the academic members and companies involved in the alliance is a crucial value of CEMS, and we believe that dialogue between these actors and social partners will enable the development of effective learning and experiences. Furthermore, once a year, during the Annual Events, the whole CEMS community gets together in a member school, chosen in a rotational basis. For an approximate of three to four days, the spirit, ideas, innovations and best practices of CEMS are shared between students, academics, corporate & social partners and Alumni. Bringing the community together is the basis of the CEMS Alliance, which focuses of multidisciplinary conversations to achieve broad perspectives, bright ideas and impulse change.

Recent examples of direct partnership with social partners and students on the academic year 2020/2021 include: • Global Citizenship Seminar (UNAOC & Bocconi) • Global Management Practices course at ESADE in partnership with the Global Alliance for Banking on Values