On September 29-30, 2023, Yury Blagov, Director of the Center for Corporate and Social Responsibility at the Graduate School of Management of St. Petersburg University (CSR GSOM SPbU), took part in the third Sustainable Development Summit “Siberian Perspective” organized by Norilsk Nickel together with the National Council on Corporate Volunteering with the support of the Russian ESG Alliance.

Also, the partners of the events were the charitable foundation “Zapovednoye Posolstvo”,  the national reserve park “Krasnoyarskiye stolby” and the funpark “Bobroviy Log”.

The summit, which was  traditionally held in Krasnoyarsk, became one of the key events on the federal agenda in the field of responsible consumption. The two-day event was attended by the representatives of the expert community, government agencies and NGOs, managers and volunteers of leading Russian companies. 

Yury Blagov took part in a panel discussion on the topic “Success secrets of volunteer projects.” In his speech, he emphasized that corporate volunteering not only helps to solve social and environmental problems but can also create significant and diverse value for employees and the company as a whole. The task of management is to understand the multi-purpose essence of corporate volunteering and create a cross-functional system for its organization and evaluation.