Description
The project objective is the promotion of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Activities to be implemented as part of the project execution are recruitment, dissemination of information and promotion of CSR with leaflets and posters, stands, newspapers, and ads in local and regional radio as well as on TV, and other activities in the Pomerania Region. An internet platform will be created to promote social dialogue and gender equality. There will also be conferences in Gdansk and Chojnice, and gender equality training to promote equal treatment and anti-discrimination, EU and Polish social dialogue, and implementation of a Framework Action Plan for Gender Equality; decent work and family life, breaking stereotypes (gender neutral job image). A study visit to Norway will be organised to learn about CSR and social dialogue practices. Participants are small and medium sized enterprise employers, employees, and trade union representatives.
Summary of project results
The project aimed to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR) because of the need to change labour relations in Poland. This could be ensured by the implementation of CSR in Polish enterprises as a way to obtain both stable and secure employment and sustainable development of enterprises. In Poland, CSR is mostly used by big enterprises with foreign capital and less than a third of companies used the CSR concept. Entrepreneurs perceived few benefits with CSR because of the lack of knowledge and necessary finance. At project completion, the following outputs had been achieved: - Increased number of employers applying CSR principles in their enterprise policies (149 employers participated in the project). - Increased knowledge about the CSR concept, social dialogue and gender equality policies among employers, trade unions and members of employers' associations and inhabitants in Pomerania, Poland (421 participants in seminars and trainings; 550 participants in conferences). The project also contributed to the signature of an agreement on social dialogue by leaders of regional employers’ organizations and trade unions.
Summary of bilateral results