WELCOME

Corporate Social Responsibility Association of Turkey
CSR Marketplace, 23 October 2009,
Kadir Has University, İstanbul

Let’s think about our school days. Learning new things, having fun with our friends and going up the spout were the things that excite us in the beginning of the winter semester. For some of us, this new process means the end of summer vacation and the beginning of the exam preparations which was a trouble.

Actually, the only thing that doesn’t changein our social and business life is the ongoing learning process, learning and changing by the things we learn. In this case business life is not that different than the school days. We have to learn constantly for our success. And the main environment that teaches us the responsibility of learning is; going back to school in October.

With this perspective, the first CSR Solutions Marketplace activity in Turkey, which is held under the umbrella of CSR-Europe since 2005, will have the theme of Going back to school for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Today, Corporate Social Responsibility is defined by many concepts like Corporate Citizenship, Sustainable Development, CorporateResponsibility…etc. Even if there are different definitions, the aim is the same; Developing and strengthening the adaptation of companies on the transformation of economic, social and environmental factors.

Turkey CSR Solutions Marketplace will provide a platform for companies and stakeholder groups to exchange CSR ideas and information. CSR Solutions Marketplace will provide an interactive environment to share information with representatives from private sector NGOs, Government and Media. Besides, Marketplace aims to put CSR in the spotlights by emphasizing the most successful CSR activities of the associations.

CSR Solutions Marketplace will consist of sessions that different stakeholders will first get information and then evaluate various CSR problems and solutions of corporations.
Participants from private sector, NGOs, Government and Media will get their Report Cards depending on the votes of the public jury, after the visits on Marketplace and the panels.
In the Report Cards Ceremony, 10 participants who have the highest grades will be awarded to get graduation certificate. Besides, they will be able to enlighten the ways of many corporations with their CSR solutions.