GlobalCCUNews
Issue 1 - 18 February, 2008
 
Welcome to GlobalCCU News! This it the first newsletter produced in the lead up to the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum, the first truly global event on Corporate Universities and Corporate Responsibility. This seminar supported by the United Nations Global Compact will bring together organisations and speakers from five continents. To help you to understand what the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum is, we will communicate with you through this GlobalCCU Newsletter. Of course, if you want to know something specific, let us know by email (serene.booker@globalccu.com). We will be very happy to answer your questions.

Why the idea of a global forum?
Annick Renaud-Coulon, organiser of the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum explains.

 
 
“As companies become more and more global, Corporate Education professionals must redesign their learning practices in order to fit with different cultures and new challenges.”
says Annick
Renaud-Coulon
  
“ I like challenges, and the success of the European Club of Corporate Universities has naturally driven me to imagine a larger scale network in response to the needs of Corporate University professionals with whom I have been working with for many years. As companies become more and more global, Corporate Education professionals are faced with redesigning their learning policies and learning organisation in order to fit with new challenges and the different cultures in which they now find themselves in. In response to this, I have been working on a project since 2004. It is a long story which is accomplished in the creation of GlobalCCU (Global Council of Corporate Universities). What an outcome! The 2008 GlobalCCU Forum is the launch pad of this global network idea. It brings together companies and speakers from five continents. Participants will share their high level experience, their questions, their doubts, and work together on the cutting-edge theme, in a seminar approach instead of a congress as you may normally encounter at other events. ”
 
Why connect the two subjects of Corporate Education and Corporate Responsibility? Is there a legitimate link to be made?
 
“ Directors of
Corporate Education,
CSR and Sustainable
Development must
work together. ”
Having always worked in the field of Education, I am profoundly convinced that only Education can form a citizen. The unprecedented media coverage of global issues, and the global mobilisation over sustainable development and global warming have finally become part of public consciousness and everyone is now aware that the planet is burning. The worthy principles of Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Citizenship have been knitted together by ideologists, companies, international organizations, and civil society. And these fine and intelligent principles are only worthy if they leave the drawing board! It is clear that the corporate universities, in their educational role, as places of learning and training, cannot remain detached from the major issues and the guiding principles that govern contemporary society. Corporate responsibility isn't something that can be bought in a supermarket – it has always been something that needs to be learnt and put into practice. It is this idea which has been growing in me for several years: to invite companies to make their Corporate University a lever of their corporate responsibility. It is not only a question of fashion or of image. It is a question of ethics. It is also a question of global regulation. It is urgent to help directors of education and sustainable development and social responsibility offers to work together, with internal and external stakeholders, in order to ensure that corporate responsibility becomes a true leadership tool.
 
CEO Viewpoint
 
 

Honorato Lopez Isla
First Vice-President and Managing Director
CEO.
Union Fenosa (Spain)

  
“ At Union Fenosa, we see training as the lever of the development of our human team, of whom knowledge and capacities make up the most important value for the company.
In coherence with the first corporate value of Union Fenosa (“Teach and learn from experience”) the Corporate University has been shaped as the key factor in transferring knowledge that our professionals place in the organization. Put the company’s main objectives into line step by step, the Corporate University continuously fits its plans to the position that comes from the consecutive strategic plans of the firm.
Our commitment with people is a support for harmonic growth of the company in its economic, social and environmental dimension. It also provides legitimacy to responsible practices of our management. Therefore, Union Fenosa is pleased to support the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum.”
 
Corporate University Director in the spotlight
 
   

Hilaire de Chergé
Ph.D.
Director of Campus Veolia Environnement (France)
” Since the first day I was appointed as MD of our Corporate University, Campus Veolia, I have been looking for opportunities to benchmark and discuss with other peers from around the world. Of course Veolia and its campus were original and successful in France, but I knew that in order to progress internationally we needed to meet others in different countries, to receive professional insights.We often share similar challenges and can learn a lot from each other, and every time I have gained useful and practical tips for my own organisation. However, I found it fairly difficult to do on my own, and that's the reason why when the GlobalCCU was created, we jumped at the chance to be involved: it proved to be an excellent value for our time and money!
Over the last years, we at Veolia, have developed 14 training centres worldwide. During this time the GlobalCCU network has developed: Now the time has come to hold the first true Corporate University seminar, organised by Corporate University executives for Corporate University executives, and I know this is not a usual “blah blah” seminar: it will be a rare opportunity for me and for the 13 other Veolia campus directors to meet and initiate rich exchanges with many peers from all around the world. ”
 

GlobalCCU Forum Update

Many people are actively working on the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum: the team at GlobalCCU ‘headquarters’ has been researching the best speakers to present the most innovative practices, and gathering detailed addresses of Corporate University professional around the world (it is easier said than done when Company policies disallow names to be passed on to callers!). Registrations increase with delegates booking from far and wide… India, Russia, USA, Canada, Brazil, China, Japan, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Morocco, South-Africa, France, etc. We confirm Mr. Georg Kell, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact will participate in the GlobalCCU Forum and will preside the Grand Dinner at the Sorbonne on 3 April. New sponsors have been added to the initial partners helping towards the balancing of the business plan and also offering help and recommendations. It is superb to be supported by so many people since the very beginning of this wonderful project, helping to make this seminar a huge success and an unforgettable three days for each participant. We can now offer simultaneous translation during the GlobalCCU forum in French, too.
 

To register or for more information,
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