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The EDuC Label for Sustainability Content in Higher Education Programs
Pioneering Sustainability with La Belle EDuC
Higher education institutions have the potential to accelerate sustainable practices globally and across sectors and industries by providing tomorrow’s leaders and decision-makers with sustainability content throughout their programs.
Developed in partnership with AFNOR, the French national organization for standardization, the EDuC Label helps to guide higher education program leaders on the path to state-of-the-art sustainability integration in their curricula.
A higher education program with an academic sustainability strategy backed by the EDuC Label is
"There is widespread agreement that business schools should do more to provide research and teaching for the next generation of students with greater focus on sustainability, ethics and social purpose."
Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor, Financial Times
"Social purpose: how business schools around the world measure up"
La Belle EDuC recognizes and rewards the effective integration of sustainability in students’ everyday learning experience.
The EDuC Label
Certification is key for sharing values and ethics with stakeholders. La Belle EDuC supports higher education programs with a sustainability label to recognize and reward a commitment to sustainability teaching and guidance.
La Belle EDuC Library
Browse featured media resources
Financial Times | Gillian Tett
US Business Schools Realise ESG Is No Fad But Part of Long-Term Trend
"[...] pressure for executives and investors to embrace ESG is likely to remain sky-high, given the growing public awareness about climate change risks and popular anger about inequality and other social issues. Indeed, these factors are now so prevalent that many corporate leaders – and business school experts – have come to view ESG as a basic risk management concept."
La Belle EDuC
Interview: Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor, Financial Times
La Belle EDuC sits down with Andrew Jack, global education editor at the Financial Times, to discuss the challenges of integrating sustainability content in higher education programs.
Forbes | Larry Light
The New MBA: Master Of Business Accountability
"In the recent past, one of the problems with business leaders embracing the idea of standing up for what you stand for was the limited focus of most business schools on educating MBA students in responsible business practices including gender, racism and sustainability. A single ethics class is not enough."
The Guardian | Naomi Larsson
Revise, Reuse, Recycle: How to Be a Sustainable Student
"For freshers starting a new chapter at university, deciding how to live your life is vital. Here are some ideas for how you can be sustainable as a student."
About La Belle EDuC
Co-Founders
Carina Hopper
Carina Hopper is a sustainability lecturer teaching at the master’s level at ESSEC Business School, SKEMA Business School and ESMOD Fashion Business School, among others. She is also active in the start-up community, advising and collaborating with tech and social start-ups across Europe. She holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School and a certificate in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge.
Johanna Wagner
Johanna Wagner is a consultant and university lecturer with a background in asset management and hotel operations. She is passionate about people, sustainability and innovation, which has led her to teach in leading hospitality master’s programs in Europe including IMHI/ESSEC and ESG Business School. She holds an MBA from IMHI/ESSEC and a certificate in Sustainability Reporting & CSR Strategy from ESSEC/Deloitte.
With the Support of AFNOR
The Leading Certification Body in France
AFNOR is the French national organization for standardization and the representative member of ISO in France. For nearly 30 years, AFNOR Group has helped organizations improve their competitiveness and have their good practices endorsed by quality marks recognized by professionals.
Delivering widely known trusted brands such as NF, AFAQ and the EU Ecolabel, AFNOR Certification offers businesses and professionals quality symbols that raise their recognition.
As a developer of standards-based reference systems and a label creator and operator, AFNOR Certification helps private and public players define the process best suited to their strategies, across multiple sites on a national and international scale.
Olivier Graffin, AFNOR Expert Dedicated to the EDuC Label
Olivier Graffin is Sustainability Coordinator of the AFNOR Group. He has 10 years of experience as a consultant and instructor at AFNOR Compétences and has carried out numerous projects in support of corporate CSR strategies. Notably, he has led collective operations contributing to the deployment of SD 21000 guidelines and ISO 26000 in more than 200 companies. He is a member of the RS&DD / ISO 26000 standardization committee and carries out evaluation missions for AFNOR Certification’s Label Engagé RSE. He is also co-author of ISO 26000 Responsabilité Sociétale : Comprendre, déployer, évaluer (AFNOR, 2010) and contributor to the Manuel de gestion du développement durable en entreprise : une approche progressive (FIDES, 2012, J. Cadieux and M. Dion, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec).
Working Group
Bringing together diverse stakeholder perspectives, La Belle EDuC is honored to have the invaluable support of a distinguished Working Group dedicated to ensuring the successful development of the EDuC Label framework.
Dr. Willy Legrand, Textbook Author, Course Developer and Professor, IUBH University of Applied Sciences
Aude Serrano, Leading Expert in Curricular Innovation for Environmental and Social Impact
Sennait Ghebreab, Fashion Business Program Leader and Lecturer, Istituto Marangoni School of Fashion London
Yannig Raffenel, Leading Expert in EdTech, Digital and Social Learning, and Blended Learning Device Engineering
