KEDGE receives award for the best pedagogical innovation in Sustainable Finance

On the occasion of the 13th edition of the European Research and Sustainable Development Awards (FIR-PRI Awards), the KEDGE MSc in Corporate & Sustainable Finance, offered at its Paris and Marseille campuses, was awarded the prize for the best pedagogical innovation in Sustainable Finance during the ceremony held on Thursday, 4 October in Mirova's offices in Paris.

Organised by the Forum for Responsible Investment (FIR), and in association with the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) launched by the United Nations, the European Research Award for Finance and Sustainable Development (FIR-PRI awards) rewards the best European research works in Sustainable Finance in several categories:

• best master's thesis,

• best Phd thesis,

• best research article,

• best pedagogical innovation, and

• awards one research grant.

"KEDGE is delighted to receive the European Finance and Sustainability Research Award for the best pedagogical innovation. It's a great honour that rewards the teams who work on the development of the Corporate & Sustainable Finance MSc programme, and it highlights our innovative and distinctive approach to finance," stated Christophe Revelli, KEDGE Professor and Academic Director of the MSc in Corporate & Sustainable Finance.

KEDGE has made Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) one of its areas of excellence by producing internationally recognised, high-level academic research, and CSR permeates all of its programmes. The MSc in Corporate & Sustainable Finance, which draws on this expertise and is part of the SEEFAR research centre (Shift for Ecology, Economics, Finance and Accounting Research), trains professionals in financial expertise and provides an indispensable extra-financial factor in the evolution of careers and where finance is used as a tool to serve the economy and social relations.

The award-winning MSc Corporate & Sustainable Finance won the Award for Innovation in the Eduniversal 2017 ranking and the business startup award in 2018.

About the MSc in Corporate & Sustainable Finance

The MSc in Corporate & Sustainable Finance provides its graduates with the financial and extra-financial expertise that is essential in the advancement of professions in Finance. The only French and European master's programme dedicated to the challenges of responsible and sustainable finance, it offers programmes in Corporate Finance and Sustainable Finance in Marseille and Paris. It is ranked the 7^th French Master's programme in the QS Top Universities ranking of the world's best m​aster's degree programmes in Finance.

About the Forum for Responsible Investment (FIR)

The Forum for Responsible Investment is a multi-stakeholder association. It was created in 2001 on the initiative of fund managers, social and environmental analysts, consultants, trade unionists, academics, and citizens. Since then, they have been joined by investors. Their common goal: to promote Socially Responsible Investment (SRI), to ensure that more investments integrate the issues of social cohesion and sustainable development. Along with other SIFs (Sustainable Investment Forum), the Forum for Responsible Investment (a French SIF) is a founding member of the European network: Eurosif. The FIR has been a member of the French CSR Platform since its creation in 2013 under the authority of the Prime Minister. The Forum is part of the cluster of representative organisations of the economic world. https://www.frenchsif.org/isr-esg/

About Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) were established by the United Nations in 2006 and is the world's leading promoter of responsible investment. PRI's mission is to understand the investment implications of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and to help its international network of investor signatories incorporate these factors into their investment and ownership decisions. The PRIs affect the long-term interests of its signatories, the financial markets, and the economies in which they operate and, ultimately, the environment and society as a whole. https://www.unpri.org/

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