Communication on Progress
for the United Nations Global Compact
Organization of a Global event supporting the UN
Global Compact on the theme: Make your Corporate
University a lever of your Corporate Responsibility
April, 2 - 4 2008, Paris - France
Paris, 22 January 2009
I - Statement of continued support
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GLOBALCCU is a premier Global Network for Best and Innovative Corporate Universities Practices
A global organization linking senior level members of Top-of-the Class Multinational Companies
A learning hub with deep insights from peers from all over the world
GLOBALCCU is a Research Hub for Corporate Learning
On co-learning and co-building of the next generation of Corporate Universities
GLOBALCCU is a Global Resource Center for efficient support of Corporate university Executives to reach their
goals and optimize their business and social performances
Effective support of the business drivers relating to people development
GlobalCCU is a Global Community for effective support of Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social
Responsibilities and Sustainable Development, through Education
Position of Corporate Universities as part of the lifelong educational chain
Foster sustainable development, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibilities through Corporate
Learning
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GlobalCCU is a small French Company based in Paris, involved in the UN Global Compact since 2007.
GlobalCCU has organized a global event supporting the UN Global Compact in Paris – France in 2008 :
the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum.
General Context
Corporate Universities are at a crossroads. Currently, these educational structures give employees access
to learning, to manage people skills and career paths guidance. The Corporate Universities enable
individuals to optimize the value chain and to align skills with business strategies. Not only must they
pursue those goals, but also work at a new one: Corporate Citizenship or/and Corporate Social
Responsibility. Some Corporate Universities offer products and services whose aim is to further develop
Corporate Responsibility: programs on aid for education and research, protection of the natural
environment, reducing energy consumption, reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, supporting
sustainable development, creating access to technology for underprivileged populations, etc.
A lot of multinational companies are now strongly involved in Corporate Citizenship, but they often set
apart their efforts in this field rather than link them with their learning policy. However, they know that
simply giving money is not enough for them to be seen as good Corporate Citizens. They also know a
person is not born a corporate citizen, but becomes one through education.
In alignment with Society’s expected role from multinational companies, the GlobalCCU Forum allowed
the Corporate University professionals to anticipate and act to help the workforce as a whole, and
primarily the leaders and managers, to develop Corporate Citizenship through action learning. It is not
only a question of fashion or of image. It is a question of ethic and responsibility in the long term. It is also
a question of corporate growth.
How does a Corporate University actively supporting Corporate Responsibility reinforce the company’s
core strategy and drives its corporate growth?
It was the main topic of the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum organized in France with the support of the Global
Compact.
Our aims supporting the UN Global Compact
We have organized the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum which was the first truly global event for Corporate
University professionals, on 2, 3 and 4 April, 2008 at Campus Veolia Environnement, near Paris and
Sorbonne University, Paris in France.
We wanted to set up in cooperation with the UN global Compact because of the following reasons:
 Complement the virtuous efforts of the Global Compact, with the objective of penetrating the learning programs of the
Corporate Universities relating to the topic of Corporate Citizenship.
 Help Corporate University professionals to anticipate and to assist leaders, managers, and the workforce as a whole to
develop Corporate Citizenship, Corporate Social Responsibilities and Sustainable Development through Action Learning,
inside and outside their organization.
 Mobilize the Corporate Universities Professionals community to incorporate the Global Compact Principles in their
policies and in their programs, to take part into the solving of the big issues which our planet has to face
 Facilitate cooperation and projects between Corporate Universities Professionals and between firms in the support of
the UN Global Compact Principles.
We are very happy to have been able to lead this event until its grand success, promoting the value and
principles of Global Compact for the attendees and their Company, we hope, in the best way.
Annick Renaud-Coulon
Chairmain
II - Description of practical actions :
The 2008 GlobalCCU Forum
The theme of the forum was ‘Make your Corporate University a lever of your Corporate Responsibility’.
3 - day forum with 3 main themes:
Corporate Education and the Human Being
Corporate Education and the Earth
Leadership Education – Corporate Responsibility as a Management Tool Education as Corporate Responsibility
Keynote Speakers from: UN Global Compact, (USA), Veolia Environment (France), Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development
(Switzerland), Pepperdine University, CA (USA), Defense Acquisition University, Ministry of Defense Acquisition, Technology &
Logistics (USA), Areva (France), Suez University (Belgium & France), Solvay Business School & Dutch Research Institute for
Transitions, Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Belgium & Netherlands)
Roundtable Speakers from: Dexia (Belgium), CGGVeritas (France), Groupama (France), Union Fenosa (Spain)
Workshop Speakers from: Areva (France), Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Brazil), Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec
(Canada), Edcon Retail (South Africa), Grupo Santander (Spain), Motorola (China), National Australian Bank (Australia), Petrobras
(Brazil), Satyam (India), Shinsei Bank (Japan), ST Microelectronics (France), StatoilHydro (Norway), Telefonica (Spain), Union Fenosa
(Spain), WBCSD (Switzerland),
Workshops, plenary sessions : keynote addresses
Many people actively worked 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 outstanding speakers from five continents presented their best practices
We worked actively with the Global Compact Network in France who has actually helped us a lot .
Consultancy firms and learning providers were not allowed to participate in the GlobalCCU Forum.
Georg Kell, Global Compact Executive Director
Keynote address at the Campus Veolia Environnement
Explaining what the Global Compact is:
World’s largest corporate citizenship initiative:
5,000 business participants & other stakeholders
from 120 countries
Created in 2000 by United Nations SecretaryGeneral
The Vision
“A sustainable and inclusive global economy”
The Ten Principles
Georg Kell Keynote address at the Sorbonne in Paris
for the attendees of the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum as well as for other
guests: Ambassadors, Government Officials, CEOs, NGOs…
The board of the UN Global compact which we have
exhibited at the main auditorium of the event
Size of the board: 2 m x1 m
III - Measurement of outcomes
Statistics during the three day forum:
Number of countries represented during the forum: 24
Number of continents represented during the forum: 5
Number of countries represented at the Grand Dinner: 31
Number of companies represented: 61
Job roles of forum participants: Corporate University Directors, Chief Learning Officers, HR Directors, VP
Sustainable Development and Continuous Improvement, General Manager – People Development, Senior
Advisors, VP Human Resources Services, Head of Corporate Training, Director of External Communications,
Campus President, Global Director of Corporate University, Head of Leadership Institute, Director of CSR,
Implementing Sustainable Development Managers, Strategic Planners, National Managing Directors of
Learning.
Job roles of Grand Dinner participants: In addition of the above-mentioned attendees, Ambassadors,
Counselors for Economic Affairs, Plenipotentiary Minister, Counselor of the French President, Executive
Director, CEOs…
Qualitative Evaluation
Three exciting days of intense learning, open-minded sharing, essential networking, powerful debating,
concentrated listening and fun was enjoyed by representatives of 24 countries over five continents! The 2008
GlobalCCU Forum was hailed a great success and an unforgettable experience by the delegates that took part in
this first truly global seminar, on the theme ‘Make your Corporate University a lever of your Corporate
Responsibility’. ‘Outstanding presentations’, ‘beautiful environment’, ‘high level’, ‘thank you’, ‘excellent initiative’,
‘delegates guide is excellent’, ‘very informative, thought provoking’, ‘very practical’, ‘extraordinary event’, were just
some of the feedback comments received.
"It is the best conference I have ever been to. I’m not just saying that
- it really was!”
Mark Allen, Ph.D.
Professor, Pepperdine University, USA
“It was an excellent opportunity to go ahead in the knowledge of
Corporate Social responsibility and to bandy with high level
speakers. I appreciated the diversity of attendees
and the possibility to exchange on their own experience. A very
useful inspiration.”
Christian Aubin
Coface, France
“It was an excellent opportunity to meet peers, to reflect on an
enriching agenda and take away ideas that would otherwise not
have been possible. It was an eye-opening experience for me.”
Rajul Asthana “The networking opportunities were excellent. I felt I gained a lot of
Satyam, India
opportunities for my company to engage in benchmarking, learn
about best practices, etc. I hope to be able to take advantage of
“I wanted to express my heartfelt thank you for putting together this
these contacts into the future.”
wonderful forum. I learned so much and made many valuable
Emily Maxon
contacts that I hope to retain well into the future.”
Tenaris, Argentina
Tom Pedersen
Shinsei Bank, Japan
SEVERAL ATTENDEES HAVE
“
Global CCU fulfils the real need for a global corporate university
EXPLICITLY SAID THEY WOULD
enterprise. It is the right time, the right content, and the right forum.
LIKE THEIR COMPANY JOIN THE UN
We are on the start of something big!”
GLOBAL COMPACT (India, Canada,
Chris Hardy
Defense Acquisition University, USA
USA…)
Other commitment
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GlobalCCU has also supported the Global
Compact Foundation financially,
answering the funding call from Georg
Kell.
In her last book, CORPORATE UNIVERSITIES, A LEVER OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY, Annick RenaudCoulon supports the UN Global Compact in a lot of pages, describing what it is and how it is important
for the companies to train their employees to respect the Ten Principles. If their leaders adhere to the
Global Compact and promise to respect the Ten Principles, these commitments remain insufficient if
their projects are not made to give concrete expression to best practices.