Responsible companies lead in innovations! UP! 2023 - Sustainability in partnership

On Thursday, March 23rd, 2023, the UP! 2023 Sustainable Business Forum was held; this year entitled "Sustainability in Partnership". The partner of the forum was the company Velux CZ/SK. The forum was organized in cooperation with CSR Europe, and the European Business Network for Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility. We also want to thank the Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic for their support of this event. We would like to thank to all participants, in present and online, for spending an interesting time with us in the inspiring spaces of the HubHub of the ARA Palace. The program UP! 2023 featured a number of inspiring personalities. We would like to thank all of them for their participation and their great and inspiring contribution in this event UP! 2023:

Special thank you to our distinguished guests:

• Monika Ladmanova - Head of the Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic

• H.E. Fredrik Jörgensen - Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to the Czech Republic

• H.E. Søren Kelstrup - Ambassador from the Kingdom of Denmark to the Czech Republic

We also thank you to:

• Katja Mader - Director People & Organization, CSR Europe, European Business Network for Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility

• Katarina Kleinwege - Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs, European Commission

• Ivan Tučník - Manager for sustainable development, Pilsenský Prazdroj

• Pavel Donner – Researcher, Hop Institute

• Otakar Školoud - Client Technology Lead, Microsoft Czech Republic

• Ondřej Boreš - Public Affairs, Sustainability, Velux Czech Republic and Slovakia

• Jan Fencl - Sustainable business manager and program manager at Vodafone Czech Republic Foundation

• Michal Putna – Sustainability Officer, Raiffeisenbank

• Tomáš Sarnovský – Councilor of Litoměřice, representative of the city in the European networking "Energy Cities"

Sustainable partnerships of responsible companies, innovative potential of responsible companies for a sustainable future, possibilities and opportunities for financing the innovative projects - the InvestEU program, Scandinavian trends in sustainable and responsible business, priorities of the EU Swedish Presidency in sustainability topics, presentation of the unique innovative project "For Hops".  The innovative practice of responsible companies and the leaders of the unique rating of TOP Responsible Company and other hot topics and current challenges in sustainability  and responsible business. We discussed all this at this year's UP!2023.

We would like to invite you to watch the recording as well as follow up the detailed communication about Forum UP! 2023 on our websites: www.byznysprospolecnost.cz; www.diverzita.cz; www.odpovednefirmy.cz; and on social media. We look forward to cooperating with you in further activities on the topics of sustainable and responsible business this year, like the round tables “Odpovědné Česko / Responsible Czechia” or our new activity “Sustainability Café”.