Comillas, winner of the 14th Corresposables Awards
The Fundación Corresponsable has recognised the work of the Doctoral Students Workshop, the Learning and Service course and the Integral Ecology and Sustainability Programme
In the picture, José Luis Fernández (Doctoral Students Workshop), Heike Pintor (Integral Ecology and Sustainability Programme) and Carlos Ballesteros (Learning and Service).
9 January 2024
Comillas Pontifical University has won the 14th Corresponsables Awards presented by the Fundación Corresponsables each year, for three different but fundamental projects for the identity of the university: the Doctoral Students' Workshop, the Learning and Service course and the Integral Ecology and Sustainability Programme.
The award, in which more than 800 candidates from 13 different countries participated, was collected by the vice rector for Academic Strategy, Innovation and Internationalisation, Paloma Bilbao, on behalf of the winning teams, at a ceremony held at the IESE Business School.
The Integral Ecology and Sustainability Programme of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences was launched in the 2018-2019 academic year. Since then, it has managed to implement the use of recycled paper, eliminate the use of plastic cutlery and cups in schools, and the installation of recycling containers and solar panels at the Cantoblanco campus, among other initiatives now awarded by Corresponsables. Heike Pintor, coordinator of the programme, acknowledges that the award "will allow us to make the project visible and continue to raise awareness among students, as well as to exchange our experiences with other academic institutions in Spain and Latin America".
The Doctoral Students Workshop is an initiative of the Iberdrola Chair in Economic and Business Ethics, and provides twelve doctoral students in business ethics, CSR and sustainability with the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from other doctoral students and members of a scientific committee made up of doctors in the field. The workshop allows the doctoral students, from Spanish and Portuguese universities, to advance their thesis in the initial and intermediate phases of the thesis.
The Learning and Service course is a compulsory subject in the degree in Business Administration and Management (Comillas ICADE), as well as a methodology of special relevance for Comillas due to its teaching innovation and for promoting university social responsibility. It combines social commitment, comprehensive training, collective reflection and putting this knowledge into practice in social projects. In addition, students work on real cases for third sector organisations. Carlos Ballesteros, lecturer and head of the ICADE Business Social Consultancy, values the work carried out in the course as "a project that has allowed all the students to put their knowledge and skills at the service of society in a service-learning project".
You may also be interested in
A learning and service project at the Santa María de la Paz Shelter that combines academic training and social commitment to tackle insomnia in vulnerable groups.
The San Juan de Dios University School of Nursing and Physiotherapy - Comillas leads a line of research that studies how to prevent the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in women's sport
The EUEF San Juan de Dios - Comillas launches a new episode of its podcast "Comillas Takes Care of You", where María José Alonso, a nurse from the Blood Marrow Team of the Transfusion Centre of the Community of Madrid, talks to us about the donation process, its importance and how you can form part of this network that saves lives.