Activities in the Danish Government Centre for CSR

ISO 26000

The Danish Government Centre for CSR participates in the development of a new ISO standard by the name ISO 26000 Social Responsibility. The purpose of the guide is to urge the companies to work with CSR voluntarily. Copenhagen, Denmark, will be hosting the last ISO Social Responsibility Plenary Meeting in May 2010.

Global Compact Self Assessment Tool

The Global Compact Self Assessment Tool can help you go through a simple self-assessment to find out how your company is doing in all areas of the UN Global Compact. The tool is designed for companies who are committed to upholding basic social and environmental standards in their operations.

The Global Compact Self Assessment Tool is a partnership between the then Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs (now the Ministry of Business and Growth Denmark), The Confederation of Danish Industry, The Danish Institute for Human Rights – Human Rights and Business Project, The Danish Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries and the UN Global Compact.

Try out the tool, Globalcompactselfassessment.org

Nordic project on CSR-driven innovation

Completed 2010. The purpose of this project was to underpin a competence boost among Danish and Nordic SMEs in the area of CSR-driven innovation. Participants were Danish and international partners from the business world, the research world and national authorities. In January 2010, The Ideas Compass was launched. The web-based tool helps small and medium-sized companies find inspiration to innovate and evolve.

Secretariat of the Danish Council on Corporate Social Responsibility

The Danish Business Authority is the secretariat of The Danish Council on Corporate Social Responsibility. The purpose of the council is to support and contribute to the CSR work of Danish companies.

High Level Group on Corporate Social Responsibility

The Danish Government Centre for CSR participates in the High Level Group on Corporate Social Responsibility in the European Commission. The group is a forum for knowledge sharing in which the member states and the commission can keep each other informed on recent initiatives within CSR.

Read more about the High Level Group on CSR

The Ideas Compass

The Ideas Compass is a web-based tool for small and medium sized enterprises. It guides and inspires companies to work with corporate social innovation (CSI).

The Climate Compass

The Climate Compass is an online tool that serves to inspire companies to devise a climate strategy that will help them reduce the emission of carbon and other greenhouse gases. The tool was created in cooperation with The Confederation of Danish Industry.

The CSR Compass

The CSR compass is a tool for companies who wish to implement responsible supply chain management. The tool was developed by the former Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs (now the Ministry of Business and Growth Denmark) and the Confederation of Danish Industry.

Partnership Practice

The online tool focuses on the interaction between companies and NGOs and holds the opportunity to achieve outcomes that would not have been possible without a partnership.

Read more about the tool

SUZBIZ India

Project completed in 2009. SUSBIZ India was a project on responsible supply chain management in India. It serves to facilitate the work on CSR in practice for small and medium sized suppliers of eight selected Danish companies.

Partnerships for increased growth and employment

The focus of the project Virksom.nu was on social responsibility concerning the tolerant job market. The purpose was to increase growth and employment in local areas. The project generated attention to the connection between the companies’ opportunities for growth and the integration of ethnic minorities at workplaces. The project was successfully finished in May 2009.

Small Suppliers in Global Supply Chains

A project on responsible supply chain management in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus of the project is a selection of small and medium sized suppliers of a large multinational company, along with their work on social responsibility. One of the purposes is to develop guidelines for the multinational companies’ work on responsible supply chain management. The project was completed in January 2008.

People & Profit

People & Profit was a project managed by the former Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (now the Danish Business Authority) with the purpose of developing CSR as a strategic competitive parameter in Danish SMEs. The project was completed in December 2007.

The Communication Compass

The Communication Compass is a web-based tool helping businesses communicate about their CSR work. The tool is intended for businesses that already work with CSR and that want to improve the communication of their efforts to the outside world. The tool has been developed by Copenhagen Business School, with financial support from Kraks Fond and the former Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (now the Danish Business Authority .

Try out the tool (in Danish only)

The Promise of Socially Responsible Investing

The Promise of Socially Responsible Investing was a conference in November 2008, focusing on bringing together leading academics, policy makers and practitioners from around the world to debate and lay out a vision for generating new and practically applicable knowledge regarding the business case for a broader societal value of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI).

CSRgov.dk

CSRgov.dk is run by the Danish Business Authority. The website is edited by employees of the Danish Government Centre for CSR in cooperation with the web team at the Danish Business Authority.

Read more about CSRgov.dk