CSR Hungary Summit: COVID has created the opportunity for a new beginning

Júlia Takács
CSR Hungary
founder-MD
igazgató

Júlia Takács, founder and managing director of CSR Hungary told: up to 40 percent of enterprises mightn’t be able to make a return after the pandemic. The post-pandemic period can be the right time for a new beginning, to rework how companies approach CSR completely – in terms of both its elements and the policies governing it. CSR activities need to be better harmonised with the real needs of people.

Health – workplace – well-being

László Molnár
health and medical
solutions director
Essity Hungary

In the next section László Molnár, health and medical solutions director of Essity Hungary talked about how a workplace can ensure the safety of workers and partners. He called attention to the importance of each company working out its own protocol.

Ottó Feuertag
founder-MD
Europa Design

Ottó Feuertag, founder and managing director of Europa Design told in connection with home-office type working in Hungary: the conditions for doing it in the long-term aren’t provided. He revealed that according to a Prohome Barometer survey, 42 percent of home office workers are sitting on a kitchen chair while working.

Higher education for a sustainable future

On the second day of the conference the first topic was the role of higher education in a sustainable future. The speakers analysed which tools, programmes and practices are available at colleges and universities. In the second half of the day the topic was the digital economy and creating new values: sustainable business models that can assist companies in ensuring the continuity of economic production during the COVID-19 pandemic, by using technological solutions that are already available.

CSR Hungary Award 2020

The list of CSR Hungary Award winners was made public on 23 November 2020. Ms Takács told that it is completely normal that CSR work means something else during and after a pandemic – protection in the former period and rebuilding in the latter. Companies will play a very important role in this process. The goal with the CSR Hungary Award remains to call attention to responsible and sustainable business management, and how it can serve as an example here and now. (x)