PRME Hanken

Hanken was the first university in Finland to be accepted as a member and to sign the principles of Responsible Management Education. The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative is the first organised relationship between the United Nations (UN) and business schools. The mission of PRME is to inspire and champion responsible management education, research, and thought leadership globally.

The seven PRME principles are:

• Principle 1 | Purpose: We advance responsible management education to foster inclusive prosperity in a world of thriving ecosystems.
• Principle 2 | Values: We place organizational responsibility and accountability to society and the planet at the core of what we do.
• Principle 3 | Teach: We transform our learning environments by integrating responsible management concepts and practices into our curriculum and pedagogy.
• Principle 4 | Research: We study people, organizations, institutions, and the state of the world to inspire responsible management and education practice.
• Principle 5 | Partner: We engage people from business, government, civil society, and academia to advance responsible and accountable management education and practice.
• Principle 6 | Practice: We adopt responsible and accountable management principles in our own governance and operations.
• Principle 7 | Share: We share our successes and failures with each other to enable our collective learning and best live our common values and purpose.

More information on PRME and its principles can be found here!

Hanken as a PRME Champions School:

In 2013 Hanken was selected as one of 30 schools globally to become a PRME Champion Institution. PRME Champions are institutions that have made an ambitious commitment to work collaboratively to develop responsible management education. The PRME Champions group works to refine what leadership means in the space of responsible management education, identify criteria for recognition of progress, and lay out a road map for continuous improvement by all in the PRME community. The group has also pledged to engage PRME more actively with United Nations agencies, funds, and programmes, as well as participant companies of the UN Global Compact. 

Hanken continued as a PRME champions School for 2016-2017, 2018-2019, 2020-2021, and 2022-2023 cycle.

Read the PRME news item here!