Tuscany tipped for CSR prize

摘要

Tuscany, Italy, is one of the two top candidates to win the European Commission DG Enterprise's "Responsible Entrepreneurship Award." Tuscany has the most firms holding the international corporate social responsibility (CSR) standard SA8000, both in Italy, with 32 per cent of all certified companies, and in the world with 13 per cent. The programme, launched by the Tuscan region in 2001, promotes CSR at a regional level. Also up for the Award is Hemel Hempstead, UK's Paper Trail, a centre for education aNd innovation based around paper media. This centre is being developed at Frogmore Mill, where paper's industrial revolution began 200 years ago.