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Allow me to draw your attention to our latest Case Study about the Responsible Business Competition , which we every year with Junior Achievement Young Enterprise Europe . The latest addition to the competition is a new application on Facebook, the ‘ Responsible Business Challenge’ , which...
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Wow! Nearly 1000 students participated in this year`s JA Global Business Challenge and eight teams made it to the final. In the end, the Russian Team Topol-M won the prestigious award, which included a cash prize of US $3,000. Second place was awarded to Team 4 Life from Kazakhstan and Team Kiki Phi...
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You might have seen my earlier blog entries about our support for the Ashridge Sustainable Innovation Award and the video produced by WWF to support the award. Today, I am pleased to share with you the names of the winners of the essay competition! First place went to Jonathan Alexander from the University...
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This was just so amazing and very rewarding. On 16 and 17 October we held our second GET-IT networking conference in Cairo, Egypt. The conference was hosted by the Ministry of ICT in the ‘smart village’. We had representatives from 80 GET-IT centres, government organisations and educational...
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You might remember previous blog entries about the 2009 Responsible Business Competition that we’re running with Junior Achievement (JA) Africa . The latest milestone of this initiative is the selection of the winner of the African Responsible Ideas Contest , which took place in September. I’m...
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Over the past month, we have worked on a feature story which gives a good overview of this year’s Innovation in Education Grant Initiative. This year 50 schools and universities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa received state-of-the-art HP technology and a cash grant to help them bring their...
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On this blog we always give you updates on our programme achievements. We decided to bring these updates together in a short article, to give you a great overview of our social investment approach and our main programmes. Click here to read the article. I am looking forward to your comments to our Social...
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Since the launch of our International Institute of Technology (HP IIT) programme in Russia at the beginning of 2008, the programme has really taken off and is now expanding into other European countries. The IIT programme aims to support IT skills training in In Russia, 17 universities have been equipped...
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We have just released an updated version of our ‘Global Citizenship in EMEA’ video and I would like to invite you to watch it and leave your comments. In the video, HP managers in charge of environmental responsibility, social investment, supply chain responsibility and privacy describe what...
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This week in Paris UNESCO held one of their biggest conferences on higher education, gathering more than 1,200 thought leaders from around the globe. The World Conference of Higher Education, or WCHE for short, has been pretty impressive in many ways. Ministers of Education and their delegations as well...
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For the fourth consecutive year, we awarded the ‘ HP Responsible Business Award’ to a student company in Europe last weekend. This year’s winner is the Lithuanian student team Greblys Company, which won the award for their environmental education offering. Congratulations to the team...
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I’d like to invite you to listen to our latest CSR podcast with Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic from UNESCO. Stamenka works in UNESCO’s Division of Higher Education where she is Chief of the Section for Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance. She has been involved in the UNESCO/HP private public...
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Since May last year we have been working with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to grow our GET-IT programme in Africa and the Middle East. GET-IT is part of HP’s social investment strategy aimed at innovating teaching and learning to help young entrepreneurs achieve...
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Together with Junior Achievement Young Enterprise (JA-YE) Europe we’ve just announced the winner of the HP Responsible Business Ideas Contest : The German student company ‘ solAround ’. The secondary school students from Peine were selected for their initiatives to promote the use of...
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I have already written a couple of entries about our Graduate Entrepreneurship Training in IT (GET-IT) Programme . Since its launch in 2007 we have opened up 100 centres in 30 countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa and have already trained more than 43,000 students. We recently published an article...