Business Contribution to the SDGs - A Student Assessment Report

In 2016, the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative, WikiRate, the UN Global Compact and the Bertelsmann Foundation developed Business Contribution to the SDGs – A Student Assessment, a pilot project to engage students and the next generation in contributing to the SDGs. We knew through this project that we wanted to try something new and ambitious, and to support research that increased collective awareness of the SDGs. The partners came together around a student assignment framework which aimed to shed light on corporate performance with relation to the SDGs, and to engage students in practical research where they learn the nuances and complexities of the corporate social responsibility landscape, while generating structured, publicly available company-level data that is comparable and usable for further research and analysis.