2025 GlobalCCU Awards
2025 GlobalCCU Awards Ceremony, held on 12 May 2025 and organised in Paris, France, during the 2025 GlobalCCU Forum, rewarded 22 impressive Corporate Universities that have performed at the highest level of excellence and have created value for People, Business, Society and the Planet.
Annick Renaud-Coulon, founder and Chairwoman of GlobalCCU, founder and President of the GlobalCCU Awards, welcomed the attendees, Awards finalists, keynote speaker, VIPs, Partners and Diplomats to the 2025 GlobalCCU Awards Ceremony relayed by streaming worldwide.
We were honoured by the presence of His Excellence Mr. the Ambassador of Colombia and other diplomatic officials from the Embassies of Brazil, India, Turkey, Nigeria, Spain and Ukraine to France who congratulated the winners coming from their country on stage during the ceremony.
Elena Zlobina, Business Development and Partnership Manager introduced and thanked our esteemed partners: Petrobras (Brazil), SDA Bocconi Asia Centre (India), TVS Motor (India), Oriento (Turkey), and Novi (Brazil).
Celebrating the 20-year GlobalCCU milestone!
The GlobalCCU Awards – a symbol of excellence recognising and rewarding the world’s best Corporate Universities – belong to the GlobalCCU history and genesis. In 2005, an extraordinary adventure began in Paris with the support of a handful Corporate University Directors coming from Brazil, Spain, USA and France. GlobalCCU would become a global organisation for collaborative learning, a learning hub with deep insights from worldwide peers, a global network, a research space for Corporate Universities and a global resource centre for supporting them to reach their goals and optimise their business and social performance.
The GlobalCCU brand is now well anchored in the Corporate University landscape. The bonds of trust and friendship we’ve built across the world will last forever, regardless of the vagaries of history, with citizens from everywhere.
Keynote speaker – Ten great lessons received from Michel de Rosen
Chairman of the Board at Forvia, Michel de Rosen who co-chaired the ceremony with Annick Renaud-Coulon, left a lasting impression with his speech entitled ‘Who will win the war between I and We’.
Then, the 2025 GlobalCCU Awards Ceremony was declared open. What a great pleasure to announce the 2025 GlobalCCU Award winners!
- Best Overall Corporate University
- Gold Award: Caixa Econômica Federal (Brazil)
- Silver Award: Vale (Brazil)
- Bronze Award: AptarGroup (USA)
- Best Corporate University – Business impact
- Gold Award: Aditya Birla Group (India),
- Silver Award: Banco do Nordeste do Brasil S.A (Brazil),
- Bronze Award: PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk (Indonesia)
- Best Corporate University – Culture
- Gold Award: Wema Bank Plc (Nigeria),
- Silver Award: PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (Indonesia),
- Silver Award: FETA – Ministry of Finance (Indonesia),
- Bronze Award: FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A. Ş. (Turkey)
- Best Corporate University – Social and Climate change impact
- Gold Award: First Bank of Nigeria (Nigeria),
- Silver Award: Socar Türkiye Enerji A.Ş. (Turkey),
- Bronze Award: Ecopetrol (Colombia)
- Best Corporate University – Innovation
- Gold Award: Petrobras (Brazil),
- Silver Award: DTEK (Ukraine),
- Bronze Award: Orano (France)
- Best Corporate University – Generative Artificial Intelligence implementation
- Gold Award: Naturgy (Spain),
- Silver Award: Türkiye Sigorta (Turkey),
- Bronze Award: Sandals Resorts International (Jamaica)
- Best Corporate University – Branding and durability
- Gold Award: PT Bank Negara Indonesia Tbk (Indonesia),
- Silver Award: Choice Hotels International (USA)
- Bronze Award: Oberoi Group (India)
Each of our estimeed winners received their trophy from one of our partners and heard feedback on their winning submission from a member of the international Advisory and Judging Committee.
Caixa Econômica Federal (Brazil), 2025 Best overall gold Award winner
and the coordinator of the Advisory and Judging Committee
Other winners joined us online for their acceptance speech
Three GlobalCCU Advisory Board members, also part of the Advisory and Judging Committee took the floor to comment on the assessment process and the lessons learnt.
Many thanks to Mr Paulo Câmara, President of Banco do Nordeste do Brazil for his powerful acceptance speech, and for underlining the importance of Learning Centers within Companies for reinventing themselves and staying aligned with the challenges of an increasingly global and digital world.
A glimpse of happy moments shared at the end of the ceremony
Thank you for being part of this 2025 extraordinary journey!
With great honor and happiness, we received the Gold classification award, Overall category!! CAIXA University celebrates this recognition and is immensely honored to be able to participate in such an important and world-renowned award as GlobalCCU. In particular, I would like to recognize and value the performance of Annick Renaud-Coulon, which brilliantly conducts the entire process, together with the team, which welcomed us so well. We continue together in the construction of increasingly strong and integrated corporate universities!! Thank you all very much!! Very proud of our UC!!
Tatiana, Superintendant National, Caixa Economica Federal (Brazil)
It is with immense pride that I share that Valer was recognized at the GlobalCCU Awards 2025, receiving the Best Overall – Silver award! 🏆✨This international recognition reinforces our commitment to excellence in corporate education and the transformative impact we seek to generate every day. I thank each one of the Valer team, partners and apprentices who are part of this journey. This award belongs to all of us! 💙We remain firm in the mission of transforming knowledge into value for society, with innovation, purpose and passion for learning.
Paula, Director Learning & Development | Universidade Corporativa, Vale (Brazil)
‘I would personally like to say that Aptar has been impressed by the entire GlobalCCU AWARD process. It was interesting to learn how the evaluations and selection processes work. Many industry awards are carried out using simple algorithms and marketing evaluations. In contrast, GlobalCCU requires several documents, videos, testimonials and learning examples. The questions in the individual categories are open, wide-ranging and require detailed answers. The documents must be supported by results and examples. Remarkably, GlobalCCU puts a great deal of effort into the process. Participation is demanding for companies. This is reinforced by an international jury of L&D experts from around the world. This year, the jury included global Learning Experts from famous brands and regional Executive experts. This once again highlights the value and respect that the award has brought us’.
Meinrad, VP, Chief Enterprise Learning & Development Officer, AptarGroup (Germany)
Landing after a real roller coaster ride in Paris. Down to earth and everything is moving! And no, I’m not talking about an amusement park, but about the intense and exciting experience at the Global CCU Awards 2025 ceremony, where our AI School was recognized with the Gold Award in the category of Generative Artificial Intelligence Implementation. I lived 48 hours of inspiration, learning and connection with corporate universities from 22 countries. I land with many ideas, valuable conversations and the satisfaction of confirming that the path we are traveling in our Corporate University, and our School of AI is going in the right direction. In the world of AI, we are all up or about to get on. Because, let’s be honest: it’s not optional. What really makes the difference is how we position ourselves and integrate this new paradigm, language and models. Our School of AI seeks to provide vision to these answers, which are still pending and that as a society we must address. Because our business project needs all our talent and because moving forward without leaving anyone behind is part of our DNA, as a public service company.
Thanks to GlobalCCU and to the international jury for this recognition. We will continue to learn together!
Jose Luis, Responsable Universidad Corporativa en Naturgy (Spain)
𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!🏆We won! I’m thrilled to share that FirstBank’s FirstAcademy has been awarded the Gold Award for Best Corporate University, Social and Climate Change Impact at the 2025 Global CCU (Global Council of Corporate Universities) Awards in Paris! This recognition honours what the bank embodies – its steadfast commitment to responsible banking, sustainable development, and inclusive learning. From climate-aligned training to wellness-focused programmes, FirstAcademy continues to nurture a future-ready, socially conscious workforce.
👏 Congratulations to the entire FirstAcademy team for establishing a global benchmark in purpose-driven learning! This achievement belongs to all of us and a special salute to all 22 award winners around the world who are raising the bar for corporate universities and creating value for individuals, businesses, societies, and the planet. What a way to end this amazing month. Excited to build on this momentum!
Tolulope, Head FirstAcademy, First Bank of Nigeria (Nigeria)