Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation
This sustainability centre is part of NBS's Sustainability Centres Community, representing business schools from around the world. Find out more.
Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation
Victoria, Canada
Gustavson School of Business
University of Victoria
Mission
We support Gustavson’s aspiration and activities by
- Cultivating sustainability and social responsibility thinking throughout Gustavson to catalyze meaningful action.
- Strengthening school-wide commitment to and pride in sustainability and responsible leadership.
- Helping Gustavson ready our students to succeed and flourish as agents of change in creating sustainable and responsible business.
- Co-creating concepts, frameworks and tools for transformative sustainability research and education at Gustavson and beyond.
- Fostering understanding, collaboration and meaningful action for sustainability across disciplines, domains, and stakeholders in our community and beyond.
Main Activities
- CSSI creates new and optimizes existing communication lines with faculty, staff and students at Gustavson and across campus, and with the broader community.
- We mobilize knowledge to increase sustainability and social responsibility content in Gustavson educational offerings and culture.
- We implement operational measures and tactics to manage the faculty’s carbon footprint – to walk the talk and to teach by example.
- We support sustainability and social-responsibility research activities throughout Gustavson.
- We committed to the UN Global Compact Principles for Responsible Management Education as early signatories, use the Principles to frame our annual report of activities across Gustavson and actively contribute to widening uptake of and enacting the Principles as members of the 2018-20 PRME Champions group.
Organizational Structure
CSSI has a director, associate director and full-time staff coordinator. A larger group of Gustavson faculty participate in centre initiatives on a project-by-project basis.