Expert contributions

The kick-off event of the NIBRA Future Talks on September 29th, 2026 in the Vienna Grand Gallery was dedicated to the topic of “Green Building in Residential Construction: New Construction, Refurbishment, Affordability and Operation in Interaction”. Initiator Nikolaus Brada summed up the claim of the format as follows: “To bring people together, to have conversations, to exchange experiences and to look to the future together.”

Die Auftaktveranstaltung der NIBRA Zukunftsgespräche widmete sich am 29. September 2026 in der Vienna Grand Gallery dem Thema „Green Building im Wohnbau: Neubau, Sanierung, Leistbarkeit und Betrieb im Zusammenspiel“. Gastgeber Nikolaus Brada holte hochkarätige Podiumsgäste auf die Bühne. Sein Credo: „Die Zukunft des Bauens liegt im ganzheitlichen Denken: Wenn Planung, Bau und Betrieb als Einheit verstanden werden, entstehen Gebäude, die wirtschaftlich überzeugen, nachhaltig wirken und langfristig zuverlässig funktionieren.“

We are pleased to offer an expert talk on a highly important topic: the EU’s #EmpCo Directive has been in force since September 27 with the 2026 amendment to the UWG and thus numerous innovations in communication must be followed.

On September 22nd, 2026, the screening of an empathetic documentary entitled “The Golden Ticket Journey” took place at our cooperation partner GMC (Global Media Circle), an association in founding under the direction of John Herzog. The audience was deeply impressed by the people who make this film an authentic testimony to meaning and value in life and work.

From 7 to 10 July 2026, Geneva became the world’s capital of the artificial intelligence debate. The AI for Good Global Summit, for the first time held back-to-back with the new UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, sent a clear signal: the question is no longer whether AI will transform our societies, but how we shape that transformation responsibly.

On June 29, the focus of the event of the Club of Rome, Austrian Chapter, was on “Planetary Peace for Human Security”. Carlos Álvarez Pereira, Secretary General of the Club of Rome, presented the strategic action plan for “Global Equity for a Peaceful and Healthy Planet 2025-2028”. Paul Shrivastava, co-president of the Club of Rome, called for a new conception of peace: “from peace to planetary peace”.

On June 19, the 5th Women Excellence Circle, organised by our advisory board member and media woman Mag. Doris Schulz, took place at Lake Attersee. This year’s under the motto: Value. Self-worth. Precious. Inspiring key notes in a historic ambiance made this day at Lake Attersee once again a great event with 40 wonderful women. The focus is on learning from each other, exchanging ideas, supporting each other and developing new visions together.

Numerous authors have worked on the reference work on SDG 8 at Springer Verlag, and on May 28, 2026, we will present it together with Christa Kainz and co-editor Andrea Sihn-Weber as well as our cooperation partners Nibra and Social City Wien at the Vienna Grand Gallery.

April 21 was a memorable day in which the first “International Day of Women in Industry” #IDWI by UNIDO was celebrated at the VIC with the online participation of numerous representatives and partners of this UN organization. Our Secretary General was there and impressed by the positive impulses from numerous countries such as Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, but also Austria – represented by Alexandra Reinagl, CEO of Wiener Linien.

RISE! 2000 women celebrated International Women’s Day 2026 together with numerous artists at the Wiener Staatsoper, our Secretary General Ursula Oberhollenzer was right in the middle of it!

What was just an idea a few months ago has now become a successful premiere: The first Responsible Leadership Summit Tyrol brought together around 120 participants at the Raiffeisen Haus in Oberndorf on March 17th. Representatives from business, science, politics, municipalities, social organisations and education discussed how rural regions can remain liveable, economically strong and socially balanced in the future. Secretary General Ursula Oberhollenzer was present for the CSR Dialogue Forum.

On 12 March, the new CSR Guide was presented for the 17th time by medianet Verlag at Palais Eschenbach with numerous guests. In addition to our Secretary General, advisory board members Andrea Sihn-Weber and Andreas Schneider, as well as SENA board member Alexandra Bolena were also present. Editor Michael Fembek presented the highlights.

The Vienna Salon Talks will start in March 2026. They provide sustainable impulses for tomorrow and are a discourse series of Social City Vienna in cooperation with the CSR Dialogue Forum, the Vienna Grand Gallery, Nibra and the Donaustadtecho. The topic of the first event: “From Duty to Freestyle: Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage for SMEs”.

As economic growth increases, so does the pressure on ecological resources. Water scarcity and pollution are already limiting the economic and social development of many regions. Even in Central Europe, droughts, overexploitation and (industrial) pollution are affecting agriculture, industrial production and, increasingly, communities. The concept of the Water Footprint (WF) helps companies to determine which dependencies on freshwater exist, and which of their activities influence local and regional water systems. Author: Mag. Dr. Jürgen Scheibz, MBM

Das S in ESG – die soziale Nachhaltigkeit – ist eines der wesentlichen Elemente in einer nachhaltigen und regenerativen Welt.
Author: Mag. Christoph Wurm

The PPWR is a directly effective EU regulation and therefore replaces the previous Packaging Directive, which led to divergent and inhomogeneous implementations in the individual member states. Different labelling requirements for packaging (e.g. in France) as well as non-identical approaches to regulating extended producer responsibility fees led to legal uncertainty, resulting in lower investments in innovative and environmentally friendly packaging and circular models.

Equal Pay – who doesn’t immediately think of women? Logically, and partly rightly so. Because in the 9th richest country in Europe and 15th richest country in the world according to Statista, the average gross hourly earnings of women are still 18.4% (EUROSTAT 2022) below those of men – and that puts us at the…

Secretary General Ursula Oberhollenzer is listed an sustainability expert at Swiss Business Hub and therefore was invited to Soirée Suisse 2024 at the Swiss Embassy in Vienna.

Secretary General Ursula Oberhollenzer held a key note at the Women Excellence Circle on Attersee 2024 and took the participants on a journey in a hot-air balloon over the wide landscape of sustainability.

Secretary General Ursula Oberhollenzer was invited to hold a key note and moderate a press conference of three companies at the occasion of World Earth Day 2024. The key note focused on innovation.

New impetus for non-profit enterprises from Europe: the “EU Action Plan for the Social Economy” Non-profit companies make a major and important contribution in Europe and around the world. In December 2021, the EU Commission focussed on this topic with the “Action Plan for the Social Economy”. The Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas…

“The central question of the 21st century is the ecological question, after the last 150 years or so have been characterised by the social question,” says Prof. Dr Harald Welzer. He describes times of crisis as times of learning, because our knowledge opens up room for manoeuvre. Find out more in the October 2021 lecture…

Numerous international guidelines (ISO 26000, OECD guidelines, GRI requirements, etc.), the SDGs, the EU Green Deal, etc. focus on the sustainable development of the environment, society, politics and the economy. Companies that align themselves with a sustainable, fair economic system have many opportunities. Legislators have also set up legal milestones such as mainly the EU…

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 adopted by the United Nations Member States in 2015 as part of its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. It is one of the 17 goals and comprises of nine out of 169 targets as mentioned in the SDGs.…

The “Österreichischer Wirtschaftsverlag” (Austrian Publishing House dealing with Economics and Business) has been a strategic cooperation partner of the CSR Dialogforum for many years. In this respect, the partnership is strongly focused on a media cooperation.

Wikom GmbH (Ltd.) is operating in Human Resources and educational management and is a strategic partner of the CSR Dialogforum. Together with the clients, AMS (“Arbeitsmarktservice” – Labour Exchange) and the Province of Upper Austria, Wikom will be pleased to support you by consultants and coordinators helping you to recruit the right people.

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Herausgeber: Schram, Brunhilde; Schmidpeter, René (Hrsg.)
Erscheinungstermin: 12.10.2016

Seit Juli 2016 ist das CSR Dialogforum jetzt offiziell im konsultativen Status der Vereinten Nationen. Diese Ernennung wurde vom Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) durchgeführt.

How do organizations successful worldwide face the challenges of globalization, digitization and other mega-trends? On November 9 & 10, 2016, the congress World Market Leaders in Austria in the “Tagungszentrum” (Conference Centre) Schönbrunn in Vienna, Austria, Europe, gives the opportunity of learning from and with the best. The Austrian companies most successful on an international…

Bei der 3.ten internationalen Konferenz für CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance „Sustainability as New Business Paradigm“ war das Motto der Nachhaltigkeitskonferenz 2016 in Köln.