RARE - Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe
Seven European research institutions have investigated the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the EU.
Research approach
Scientists used this project to develop a method with which to assess CSR impact and determine its success factors. With the help of sector surveys and case studies, they gained insights into CSR practice and into the impact on environment and society actually achieved by CSR.
The areas targeted were three economic sectors: the oil industry, the banking sector, and the fish-processing industry. The focus in each case was on environment, gender equality, the fight against corruption, and resource management. Based on the results, recommendations were worked drawn up as to how CSR can be strengthened in policy-making and corporate decision-making within Europe.
Project partners
Öko-Institut Darmstadt (Lead)
Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE)
Peter Wilkinson Associates
Funding
6th Framework Programme of the European Commission
Duration
Research unit
Energy and Climate Protection in Everyday LifeRelated projects
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- Climate CO2NTEST – Acceptance and impact of the competition in the Hanover region
- ecobiente - Designing Sustainable Goods more Succesfully
- EiMap – Communication strategy promoting energy-efficient refurbishment during the home purchasing process
- Electromobility for the Darmstadt-Rhine-Main-Neckar Region
- Environmental awareness in Germany 2020
- EUPOPP - Political Strategies and Tools to Promote Sustainable Consumption
- Expert report on the carbon balance of forests
- FlutNetz – Improving access to medical emergency care during flood disasters in Bangladesh
- Gender and Environmental Awareness
- Gender equality as a contribution to successful climate policy
- Gender Impact Assessement for the BMU
- Gender Impact Assessment for the City of Bremen
- Gender Impact Assessment in Radiation Protection and Environment
- Gender Impact Assessment of the EU-Programme "Enviroment and Sustainable Development"
- Gender Mainstreaming in the National Park Eifel
- Gender Mainstreaming in two Saxon Hospitals
- Gender, Sustainable Consumption and Environmental Load
- Germany under Climate Change
- Homes-uP – Single Family Homes under Pressure?
- IndUK – Individual environmental action and climate protection
- JET-SET - Emissions Trading as Social-Ecological Transformation Process
- KlimaAlltag – low carbon lifestyles in the zero emissions city
- LivingSpaces – Instruments for a needs-orientated usage of the housing stock in municipalities
- Meta-Analysis of Gender and Research in Europe
- NaHa – Sustainable Practices in the Workplace and in Everyday Life
- Perception and Acceptance of the Ecolabel “Blue Angel”
- PowerFlex – integrating the heating and cooling sector into the electricity market model PowerFlex
- SuPraStadt – Quality of life, participation and resource conservation through social diffusion of sufficiency practices in urban neighbourhoods
- Sustainability Audit
- Synergies between environmental and social policy
- Target Group Orientation and Gender Specific Design for Consumer Policies
- TRI-HP – Trigeneration systems based on multiple renewable sources