On November 19, the Municipality of Guimarães through Guimarães Marca will organize a session to debate the state of the art of Corporate Social Responsibility in Portugal, the session will feature some guests who will share their experience on this topic.
Registration to participate in the session must be made by email to guimaraesmarca@cm-guimaraes.pt
November 19 | 2:30 pm-4:30 pm
LOCATION: José de Guimarães International Center for the Arts (CIAJG)
Av. Conde Margaride, 175, 4810-525 Guimarães (VIDEOCONFERENCE ROOM)
About URBACT Cities4CSR
URBACT Cities4CSR is a European program for learning and exchanging experiences, promoting and developing solutions to problems and challenges that arise in urban areas. The project has two main objectives: to establish relationships between the offer of corporate social responsibility actions and the needs of local social institutions, and to share and replicate these good practices.
This initiative has the presence of 10 international cities: Milan (Italy), Nantes (France), Bratislava (Slovakia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Budaors (Hungary), Molina de Segura (Spain), Bratsa (Bulgaria), Kekava ( Latvia) and Rijeka (Croatia), Rijeka (Croatia) and Guimarães (Portugal).
URBACT Cities4CSR Guimarães is working on the development of a collaborative technological platform, which will allow the articulation between companies and social, cultural and sports solidarity organizations. As a final objective, the municipality intends to reinforce the capacity of social support through the improvement of local public policies and the elaboration of a local strategy anchored in the business fabric for the promotion and dynamization of Corporate Social Responsibility actions.
The digital platform will serve to connect those in need of assistance and those willing to help. Guimarães currently lacks a solid mechanism for articulation between companies and social, cultural and sports solidarity organizations.
In an initial phase, companies that belong to Guimarães Marca and the Social Solidarity Institutions that make up the Local Council for Social Action will be involved. In the second phase of the project (which will run until August 2022) it is intended to involve a greater number of companies and Solidarity, Cultural and Sport institutions.
So far, working meetings of the Local Action Group (GAL) have been held, in which the Municipality of Guimarães, some companies from the Guimarães Marca community and various institutions of the Local Action Network of Guimarães participate.
