This multidisciplinary academic centre aims to foster responsible and sustainable business conduct in Portugal, in Europe and beyond, combining human rights, decent work and environmental standards on all global value chains.
It is marked by three pillars of activity: conducting research to clarify the role of law in corporate sustainability (having already contributed to legislative developments at the national European level); promoting awareness and capacity building around critical issues of sustainable business conduct through the organisation of different types of events, and it also has on its DNA the training of next-generation business leaders and sustainable law professionals.
At the same time, it serves as a platform for exchange, making it easy for exchanges among multiple stakeholders – may they be academics, institutions, companies, NGOs, legal professionals, government officials, trade unions, investors, business organizations…, as well as European and international organizations.
To feed all this activity, it also promotes a series of different courses and trainings from “Business, human rights and environment”, “Climate and just transition” to “Risk management and corporate sustainability”.