“This event is an opportunity to place co-creation at the heart of the debate: bringing together the vision and methods of the voluntary sector, the ambitions of businesses, the challenges facing public bodies, in order to learn how to work together and do business differently. The aim is above all to find concrete long-term solutions to the great issues facing humanity, now and in the future, said Gilles Vermot Desroches. This debate was organised in accordance with Schneider Electric’s initiatives to promote cooperation between business and NGOs, such as the ambitious BipBop access to energy program, or recently the joint action with Gawad Kalinga following the typhoon which hit the Philippines.”
Charles-Benoît Heidsieck, Chairman of the Medef “NGOs” Committee, CEO and founder of Le RAMEAU, Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, Co-founder and Director of “Social Business/Enterprise and Poverty” and the MSc in Sustainable Development Management at HEC Paris, and Arnaud Mourot, Co-director of Ashoka Europe, all contributed to the debate moderated by Isabelle Hennebelle, Editor of the special edition “Ces métiers qui changent le monde¹”, journalist specialised in social innovation and HR at l’Express and l’Expansion. More than 200 participants took part in the discussions and debates: representatives of voluntary associations and foundations, members of the workforce, managers of cooperative programs in large companies and schools, journalists.
This major co-creation event is part of the ongoing partnership between Schneider Electric and Gawad Kalinga in the Philippines to develop access to electricity and associated services, signed in August 2013 by Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman & CEO of Schneider Electric, and Tony Meloto at the Medef Summer Camp.
The first actions of this partnership were implemented after mega-typhoon Haiyan passed through the Philippines on November 8, 2013. Schneider Electric employees, supported by the Schneider Electric Foundation under the aegis of Fondation de France, got together and raised 570,000 euros. These donations were primarily used to put together an emergency program and the donations of food to cover of the needs of 100,000 families. The rebuilding program includes restoring access to energy and projects offering vocational training in energy management.
¹ “These jobs which change the world”