Research and Funding Program

Research Axes

What are the environmental (pollution, climate change, etc.), social (human and workers’ rights, EDI, AI, etc.) and governance issues (corruption, development of mission-driven companies, etc.) that organizations need to consider? How do these issues interact with each other?

What contribution do social innovations make to achieving sustainable development? Which social innovations promote one or more of the 17 sustainable development goals? Who makes them possible? What factors help or hinder their perpetuation?

How should ESG be regulated?

What standards, state or otherwise, support the integration of ESG issues into the decision-making and practices of organizations? How can AI support ESG regulation? What are the effects of these standards? Conversely, what effect does ESG practice have on regulation?

How Can ESG Be Implemented?

Research into ESG disclosure and integration practices in organizations, such as the development of better ESG evaluation indicators (drawing on the application of artificial intelligence) or the implementation of social innovations.

What impacts do regulations, innovations or the integration of ESG criteria into organizations have on the environmental, social and governance issues themselves? What are the best ways of assessing these impacts?

What is the Impact of ESG?

What Contribution Do Social Innovations Make To Achieving Sustainable Development?

Which social innovations promote one or more of the 17 sustainable development goals? Who makes them possible? What factors help or hinder their perpetuation?