by Nicolas | Dec 3, 2024 | Sin categoría
On 29 November 2024, the Spanish Association of University Lecturers of Accounting (Asociación Española de Profesores Universitarios de Contabilidad – ASEPUC) organized, in collaboration with the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, the first workshop on ‘University and Accounting Profession’. The workshop provided a space to debate the most critical accounting challenges from an academic and professional approach.
The coordinator of the Account4GreenEco project, Nicolás García Torea from the University of Burgos, participated in this conference as an invited speaker at the first round table, together with María Dolores Urrea, from the Spanish Accounting Regulator (Instituto de Contabilidad y Auditoría de Cuentas – ICAC) and Auditing Institute (ICAC), and Ramón Pueyo Viñuales, head of sustainability and corporate governance services at KPMG. This round table reflected on the need to incorporate the study of sustainability reporting and verification in university curricula. This issue is one of the challenges that the Account4GreenEco project is trying to address through the development of its online training platform and its activities with students and professors. The project partner, University of Burgos, has extensive experience on this matter, with the implementation of the first Spanish Official Master on Sustainability Reporting and Assurance.
In addition to discussing the integration of sustainability information in curricula, the conference also addressed other issues relevant to accounting education, research, and practice, such as artificial intelligence, the employability of graduates, and the professionalization of the work of accountants.
The conference, which was attended by more than 80 people from 19 Spanish universities, was also attended by the president of the ICAC, Santiago Durán Domínguez, and professionals from large auditing firms such as KPMG and Deloitte, and members of the Register of Accounting Economists and the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
by Nicolas | Nov 13, 2024 | Sin categoría
A group of 23 students from the four universities participating in the Project (MBS from France, Leuphana University from Germany, Università degli Studi di Trento from Italy, and the Universidad de Burgos from Spain) have participated in the second Teaching Activity of the Project, hosted the University of Leuphana (Germany), from November 5 to 8, 2024.
In this teaching activity, the students could test the first and second of the three modules that will be integrated into the learning platform the Project is designing. In so doing, the Project seeks to improve their knowledge of sustainability information, as well as to validate the materials it is producing.
The student group also attended seminars given by Dr. Frank Dubielzig, Sustainability Director of Hapag-Lloyd AG, and PD Dr. Timur Sevincer from the Institute of Sustainability Psychology at the University of Leuphana. In these seminars, participants could learn more about the role of sustainability information in the design of sustainable corporate strategies, as well as the interrelationship between sustainability and psychology, respectively.
Following this meeting, the Project is entering the final phase of the development of the platform, which will be tested in its entirety at the third teaching activity of the Project, which the University of Burgos will organize in September 2025.
by Nicolas | Oct 14, 2024 | Sin categoría
The University of Burgos (UBU) ‘s Master of Sustainability Reporting and Assurance has organised a practice-oriented seminar. The guest speaker was María Eugenia García Rincón, head of Communication and CSR at Aquavall and regional delegate of DIRSE, associated partner of the Account4GreenEco project.
The Master of Sustainability Reporting and Assurance at UBU collaborates directly with our project to promote dissemination and awareness about the growing relevance of sustainability accounting for corporate professionals. As part of its syllabus, the Master organises a set of seminars given by experienced professionals in the sustainability accounting field.
María Eugenia García Rincón shared with students her extensive knowledge on how to design sustainability strategies for companies. She emphasised the importance of communicating those strategies properly through sustainability reports, which are not just a formality, but a key instrument for firms, as an accountability tool, and a mechanism they have to produce to comply with new requirements set by the European Union.
by Nicolas | Oct 10, 2024 | Sin categoría
⏳ There’s something cooking…
We are finalizing the recording for the upcoming Account4GreenEco second teaching activity at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg in November 5-9, 2024 🎥
We all look forward to this activity with the selected students from our academic partners (Universidad de Burgos, Università degli Studi di Trento, MBS and Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), alongside our amazing partner Grupo Gestionet 🌟 ⭐ 🌟
by Raul | Jun 3, 2024 | Sin categoría
The Project Account4GreenEco, in collaboration with the University of Burgos Master on Sustainability Reporting and Assurance, organized a seminar on “Sustainability reporting regulation: challenges for companies”, on May 31, 2024, in the Faculty of Business and Economics. The invited speaker was José María López Jiménez, director of ESG strategy at Unicaja and lecturer on Law at the University of Malaga.
José María López covered the main EU regulations that require companies to publish sustainability information and reflect on their main implications in terms of the workflow and internal restructuring that organizations must adopt to comply with sustainability reporting mandates. The speaker also underscored the need for graduate and postgraduate training to ensure the availability of a significant pool of professionals capable of supporting firms in producing sustainability information.
This event allowed participants, mostly students and lecturers, to solve their doubts about how companies are dealing with the increasingly intricate sustainability reporting landscape being rolled out by the European Union.
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by Raul | May 30, 2024 | Sin categoría
The Project organized its Second Project Coordination Meeting (PCM2), on May 24, 2024, hosted by the partner Gestionet, in Bilbao.
In this Second Project Coordination Meeting, the project members had fruitful discussion to discuss and set the next steps to finalize and implement the second training module on the platform, as well as to organize the Second Teaching Activity with students to be held at the University of Leuphana (Lüneburg, Germany), from November 5 to 8, 202. Six students from each of the four universities that are part of Account4GreenEco will participate in this activity, funded by the project.
The meeting also allowed to have useful exchanges to establish the guidelines to design and deploy the engagement strategy with relevant stakeholders to enhance the dissemination and impact of the project results. This is key for our Project as we aim to create awareness on the relevance of improving sustainability accounting training and the promote the use of the platform we are producing for that endeavour.
Additionally, we also had the opportunity to assess the overall management of the project to ensure that we are on the correct path towards achieving our objectives.
The Erasmus+ Account4GreenEco Project (Sustainability Accounting Learning Platform for a Green Economy) is co-funded by the European Union within the Erasmus+ Programme (Ref. 2022-1-ES01-KA220-HED-000089844).
