You are invited you to participate in the International Conference on       

Corporate Social Responsibility and Public-Private Partnership

November 23-24, 2009, Academgorodok, Novosibirsk

Conference Room, SB RAS Administration, Lavrentyeva Av. 17

Objectives: to discuss issues of social responsibility of business in the present economic and political context; mechanisms of public-private partnership at the federal, regional and local levels; and how to optimize the cooperation between business, authorities and society for solving the problems of regional and municipal development. A special focus is on social responsibility of large companies in remote Northern regions as well as the issues of mono-cities and mono-regions and the role which such companies play in ensuring the proper operation of regional economies and social spheres in these regions.

Key issues to be discussed are:

·        corporate social responsibility: theoretical concepts, realities and practices in different countries; incentives to  social responsibility of business: from enforced actions to the aware and preventive activity;     

·        social responsibility of authorities and social responsibility of business: society’s expectations, cooperation and complementarities; public control over  business’s commitments;

·        public-private partnership as an important element of governmental policy of recovering from a financial-economic crisis;

·        dissemination of the public-private partnership practices: problems and promotion activities; social responsibility of small and medium business;   

·        Northern large companies and mono-cities: Siberian and Canadian practices;

·        peculiarities of conventions between large companies and regional or  local executive authorities for solving regional socio-economic and ecological issues; 

·        environment-oriented activity in the North as a form of large companies’ social responsibility;

·        cooperation of authorities and business for developing education and effective use of labour resources; local labour markets in the context of a crisis;   

·        public and business involvement in the Northern Aboriginal problems: from paternalism to partnership; large companies’ practices in solving Northern Aboriginal problems as an example of how corporate social responsibility can be realized.

The following Round Tables are to be held within the framework of Conference:

ü   Corporate Social Responsibility Oil-and-Gas, Coal and Metallurgic Sectors: Canadian and Russian Practices and Problems

ü   Cooperation of Authorities and Business for Solving Regional Socio-Economic Issues (including Northern Aboriginal problems): Practices and Problems in Different Countries.

ü   Public-Private Partnership to Modernize Infrastructure.

Participants are: representatives of federal, regional and local authorities; heads and specialists of large Russian companies; experts from research institutes of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, educational institutions, association and intersectoral unions. Representatives of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Canada; Department of External Affairs, Canada; Canadian Eurasia and Russia Business Association (CEBRA); Canadian Corporate Social Responsibility Association; International Research Consortium on Aboriginal Policy; Canadian Trade Mission in Russia; and Canadian companies as well as representatives from other countries such as China, Japan, Hungary and etc.

Simultaneous interpretation of plenary sessions and consecutive one fort round tables are to be provided. In view of a limited number of participants, please, send your participant’s application not later than September 15, 2009 to E-mail address: svetlaj@ieie.nsc.ru or mail address: IEIE SB RAS, suite 430a, Lavrentyeva Av. 17, Novosibirsk 630090.

For more information, please, contact

V. Seliverstov, Deputy Director, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SB RAS (tel.: (383) 330-89-54), and

V. Kryukov, Deputy Director, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SB RAS, Director for Resource Economics Center (tel.: (383) 330-09-62)

Contacts:

Tatyana Maximovskaya: (383) 330-09-62, (913) 986-74-00
e-mail: maksimovskaya@gmail.com

Svetlana Bratyuschenko: (383) 330-44-40, (913) 923-19-29 Fax: (383) 330 25 80

e-mail: svetlaj@ieie.nsc.ru