EuroCharity Yearbook 2012/13 – Innovation for Excellence | Update

After five years of publishing success, EuroCharity is once again paving the way for constructive dialogue among key stakeholders regarding a highly important and global issue. This year, EuroCharity chose for its 6th Yearbook the theme “Innovation for Excellence”, because more than ever today’s local and global challenges call for innovative solutions in technological, social and sustainable issues. The publication will be showcasing pioneering corporations, organisations and CEOs who have embraced innovation and explore new, more effective and sustainable ways of growth that lead to excellence.  

By embracing innovation, corporations lower costs, become more competitive, generate better products and services, gaining at the same time competitive advantage. Without doubt, innovation can contribute to a better world by turning new and creative ideas into real life solutions for a sustainable future.

The 6th EuroCharity Yearbook will profile leading CEOs, corporations and organisations that are leading the way when it comes to innovation. It will also future leading decision-makers, visionary entrepreneurs, Nobel Laureates, top university professors, scientists, gurus and other specialists to share their views in this 164-page album, along with extensive research and photographic material.

Some of the confirmed international guest authors and organisations to date, include:

• Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment
• Lars Rasmussen, Chair, Global Green Growth Institute, former Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark
• BP Agrawal, Founder & President, Sustainable Innovations
• Bruce Piasecki, Founder & President, AHC Group, Inc. & Author
• Dr. Bettina von Stamm, FRSA, Director & Catalyst, Innovation Leadership Forum & Author
• Marc Amblard, CEO, European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM)
• Matt Rogers, Director, McKinsey & Company
• Rowan Gibson, Co-Founder, www.innovationexcellence.com – the online home of the global innovation community & Author
• Dr. Anne-Laure Mention, Head of Research Unit, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor
• Dimitrios G. Salampasis,  Researcher, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor
• Calvin Hodock, Founder and Former Chairman of the Board, Edison Awards, American Marketing Association
• Fabrizio Sestini, Scientific Officer, European Commission, DG Information Society
• Vassilios Makios, Professor Emeritus at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras, Greece and at the Dept of Electronics of the Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, Executive Director, Corallia Clusters Initiative
• Annie Pearce, Associate Professor Department of Building Construction, Virginia Tech
• Paul Druckman, CEO, International Integrated Reporting Council
• Magdalena Álvarez Arza, Vice-President, European Investment Bank
• Mathea Fammels, Senior Strategy Officer, European Institute of Innovation & Technology
• Linda Rottenberg, CEO & Co-founder, Endeavor
• Wayne Visser, Founder & Director of the think-tank CSR International and consultancy Kaleidoscope Futures Ltd
• Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive, GreenBiz Group Inc.
• Naveen Jain, Founder, World Innovation Institute, Moon Express, Intelius, InfoSpace

Greek companies that participate in the forthcoming publication and present their innovation strategy and best practices are: AB Vassilopoulos/Delhaize Group, Air France | KLM, Alpha Bank, Halyps Building Materials/Italcementi Group, INTERAMERICAN Group/Part of ACHMEA, ICAP Group, National Bank of Greece, OTE/COSMOTE and Pharmathen.

Moreover, EuroCharity in collaboration with ICAP Group will present a special survey regarding innovation and greek entrepreneurship.

The publication will be released in June and presented at a global audience in Athens (July 4) and in Brussels (June 26).

For information regarding the Yearbook series and participation, you may visit: www.eurocharity.eu/en/yearbook or contact Ms. Ilektra Liberopoulou, Marketing & Communications Manager.

• E-mail: ilektra.liberopoulou@eurocharity.org
• Tel.: +30 210 927 1115

About Yearbooks
The idea of launching the first EuroCharity Yearbook germinated when Greece faced an environmental and social crisis of unprecedented dimensions – devastating forest fires. The inaugural “EuroCharity Yearbook 2007 – The Spirit of the Forest – The response of the corporate world to the catastrophic fires of 2007” was published in June 2008.

A year later, the EuroCharity Yearbook 2008 on Sustainability and Green Development, was released. It focused on the impact of green economy on competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation, by showcasing green products and services developed by companies as well as policies and incentives that foster investments and initiatives in the green economy.

The third “EuroCharity Yearbook 2009 – It’s a matter of culture” was launched in June 2010 and highlighted the importance and many aspects of corporate culture and the need of companies to adopt values, vision and mission that include corporate responsibility principles along with their business strategy.

The “EuroCharity Yearbook 2010 – The Future of Responsible Investing”, which came out in June 2011, informed key stakeholders on the latest trends, research, indices, best practices, case studies, intelligence and viewpoints related to this important theme. This international publication was presented in three European capital cities.

The “EuroCharity Yearbook 2011/12 – Leadership for Sustainability” addressed the need to adopt sustainability in leadership training and development, showcased corporate sustainability leadership best practices and presented authoritative opinions and insightful research findings on the progress and challenges in leadership for sustainability.