This TRAINING TOOLKIT has been developed under the Pilot Project “CSR/SMEs – Promoting Social Responsibility in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises”, supported by the European Commission through the “Leonardo da Vinci” Programme.

The goal of this product is to provide help in the organization and development of training activities focused on CSR, by defining a CSR training programme in terms of target groups, trainer profile, objectives, learning contents, programme structure, methods and practical training activities, didactical/pedagogical resources/materials required, duration, evaluation, assessment and certification.

The TRAINING TOOLKIT is destined to vocational education training organisations willing to teach and train about CSR especially in management areas. It is also destined to the training organisers and trainers of those vocational education and training organisations. This document will be mainly used by those end-users for the benefit of the project target groups – mainly entrepreneurs, SME owners and managers as well as public decision-makers, consultants, education and training specialists, academics and students. The main focus of the training programme, however, is on entrepreneurs, SMEs owners and managers, the first implied target group.

Nevertheless we would like to reinforce that different training modules were pilot-tested with different target groups - entrepreneurs, SMEs owners and managers; consultants, education and training specialists; academics and students.

The partnership is fully aware that this TRAINING TOOLKIT is not a complete work. It must be seen just as a “step forward” in the attempt to provide useful training materials in the field of CSR. We hope that this project’s results help training providers to better promote and foster CSR practices into the companies’ strategies and decisions, contributing to increasing the knowledge about the positive impact of CSR on business and society.

Assuming this project as the beginning of a continuous improvement process, the partnership welcomes all contributions, suggestions and comments that end-users would like to forward.

STRUCTURE

This TRAINING TOOLKIT is organised in six sections, besides the “How to use it” section:

Training programme
Exercises
Case studies
Ethical dilemmas
Other resources
Contacts

The “Training programme” section contains the overall training programme description as well as the description of each one of the six modules that take part of the training programme, according to a common structure.

The “Case studies”, “Ethical dilemmas” and “Exercises” sections contain the tools developed by the partnership to support the practical training activities proposed in the training programme.

In the section “Other resources” you will find some other products developed in the project framework that can be used as complementary training materials as well as a training programme evaluation tool:

CSR – State of the Art Report
CSR Glossary
How to Organize a Study Visit to a Socially Responsible Company - Practical Guide
Participants Feedback Questionnaire

Finally, you will find a “Contacts” section for those interested in further information.