Globethics.net has signed cooperation agreements with various partner organizations. Our partnership agreements ensure mutually beneficial cooperation with our partners. There are eight types of partners:

• Regional Coordination partners: A main regional coordination partner in each focus country is crucial. They do coordinating and animating work for Globethics.net. They need to have a specialisation in ethics, networking capacities and an institutional affiliation and be as independent as possible.
• Scientific partners: Regional and international ethics networks, ethics centres, cooperate in research projects or events/conferences.
• Library Partners: Institutional and commercial content providers, libraries, library networks, participants with submissions.
• Networking partners: Global or regional networks with an interest in ethical issues, but they don't need an ethics specialisation.
• Funding partners: Contributing financially to Globethics.net, non earmarked or earmarked for specific projects
• Service Partners: IT, technical and infrastructure services, normally paid by Globethics.net
• Project Partners: Funding or implementing partners of Globethics.net projects
• Media partners: News providers for Globethics.net or partners in promoting and marketing Globethics.net

Regional Coordination partners

Globethics.net Regional Coordination Office in China
Centre for International Business Ethics CIBE in Beijing http://www.cibe.org.cn

The Center for International Business Ethics, (CIBE), at University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, is an international non-profit research institution aiming to integrate ethics into businesses strategies by facilitating the dialogue between businesspeople and scholars through conferences and training seminars.
CIBE was founded on December 8, 2004 by IFCM (the Sino-French Institute of Management), the SIE (the School of International Education), the TBC (The Beijing Centre for Chinese Studies) on the campus of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing in cooperation with Hong Kong registered AIBE (Association for International Business Ethics).

Globethics.net Regional Coordination Office in Indonesia
International Consortium for Religious Studies ICRS Yogyakarta: http://icrs.ugm.ac.id/main/

The Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS-Yogya) is a consortium of three universities: Gadjah Mada University (UGM), State IslamicUniversity Sunan Kalijaga (UIN), and Duta Wacana Christian University (UKDW). Together they offer an integrative, international Ph.D. program in inter-religious studies. This is the only Religious Studies Ph.D. Program that is co-sponsored by Muslim, Christian, and national-secular universities.

Scientific partners

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN)

www.businessethicscanada.ca
The Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN) mobilizes and profiles Canada’s rich pool of business ethics expertise. CBERN creates opportunities for sharing and engaging in business ethics research across academic disciplines and faculties and draws university researchers into dialogue with leaders and researchers in business, government and the voluntary sector.
CBERN strives to raise the visibility of business ethics research and leadership by:

• Building research capacity;
• Coordinating research initiatives;
• Encouraging ethical business practices;
• Highlighting the importance of linking economic development and societal well-being; and
• Engaging the public in the discussion and evaluation of the issues and findings at the centre of the network’s activities
  
  

Global Corporate Governance Forum
www.gcgf.org
The Global Corporate Governance Forum is an International Finance Corporation (IFC) multi-donor trust fund facility located in the Corporate Advice Department of the Business Advisory Services Vice Presidency that provides assistance to emerging markets and developing countries on corporate governance. The Forum was co-founded by the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1999.

The Forum promotes sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction within the framework of agreed international development targets. The Forum focuses on practical, targeted corporate governance initiatives at the local, regional and global level deploying tools and guidelines drawn from international best practices.

Latin American Business Ethics Network (ALENE)

http://www.alene.org
ALENE is the Latin American Association of Business, Economics, and Ethics, that is formed by Ethics professors of business and practitioners that are interested in the Ethics values and in the business world.

ALENE was founded in 1998, during the 1st Latin-American Congress of Business, Economics, and Ethics, held in São Paulo , Brazil . This meeting was fundamental since university professors, researchers and practitioners from different countries attended.

 

Library Partners

 

Globethics.net is member of IFLA: http://www.ifla.org/

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession.

Globethics.net is member of the American Theological Library Association (ATLA)

http://www.atla.com
Established in 1946, the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) is a professional association of more than 1,000 individual, institutional, and affiliate members providing programs, products, and services in support of theological and religious studies libraries and librarians. ATLA's ecumenical membership represents many religious traditions and denominations.

Europeana

http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
Europeana.eu is about ideas and inspiration. It links you to 4.6 million digital items.

• Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
• Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
• Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
• Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts

Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe

• museums and galleries
• archives
• libraries
• audio-visual collections
  

Coredem

http://en.coredem.info/index.php
Some ten organisations from all five continents have decided to pool and mutualise their information and analyses, and facilitate access to their respective documentary resources.

SAGE

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/
SAGE Publications, a leading international publisher of books, journals, and electronic media, is a privately owned publishing company dedicated to the global dissemination of information.
Founded over 40 years ago with a mandate to make the best and most current scholarship accessible to a broad academic audience, SAGE recognizes that high quality scholarship requires dedication and commitment. SAGE works closely with authors and editors to produce the most outstanding work in the fields in which it publishes.
SAGE Publication acquires, develops, markets, and distributes knowledge. By disseminating scholarly and professional materials throughout the world, SAGE sets the standard for innovative, interdisciplinary, and international scholarship.

Gale

http://www.gale.cengage.com
Gale®, part of Cengage Learning, is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.

EBSCO

http://www.ebscohost.com
EBSCO has served the library industry for more than 60 years. By placing customers at the core of our business, we have tapped their ingenuity to assist us in developing the high quality products and services for which EBSCO is known. EBSCO is the only company to provide customers with an integrated service that combines reference databases, subscription management, online journals, books, linking services and A-to-Z solutions. Always at the leading edge, we continue to work to identify new challenges and combine technology with data to meet the information needs of our customers worldwide.

Medknow

http://www.medknow.com/
Medknow Publications is a publisher for peer-reviewed, online/print+online journals in the area of STM. Medknow is the largest open access publisher publishing on behalf of learned societies and associations. Medknow pioneers in 'fee-less-free' model of open access publishing and provides immediate free access to the electronic editions of the journals majority of which do not charge the author or author's institution for submission, processing or publication of the articles.

Networking partners

 

 

GKP Global Knowledge Partnership

EthicsWorld

http://www.ethicsworld.org/
Vision: A vibrant, current and inter-active website for views, comments, reports and news on governance, business ethics and anti-corruption in the United States and across the world.

Mission: To disseminate information and strengthen understanding of the critical issues of institutional governance, business ethics and anti-corruption, by reporting on key developments and providing a forum for diverse opinions.

WSCF

http://www.wscfglobal.org/
WSCF has been a spirited, formational and life-giving movement of Christian students for over 110 years.

Since its founding in 1895, the passion, love and spirit of justice of WSCF's young leadership has kept it a maker of history in countless people's movements, churches and political spheres.

Today WSCF continues as the foremost leader in ecumenical formation for Christian students and youth in more than one hundred national movements across the globe.

Funding partners

LINSI

Linsi Foundation
The U.W. Linsi Foundation in Stäfa/Switzerland is a foundation under Swiss law of family Ursula and Walter Linsi with the aim of supporting national and international charitable, cultural and educational projects and with a special focus on projects on ethics. Several projects are based in India. The Linsi Foundation is Globethics.net's main sponsor.

 

Fastenopfer

http://www.fastenopfer.ch
Fastenopfer is a Catholic aid agency in Switzerland. The slogan 'We share' describes our involvement in disadvantaged countries in the South and in Switzerland.

Service Partners

Point Software

http://www.pointsoftware.ch/
Point Software AG ist ein unabhängiges Schweizer Informatikunternehmen, welches von Aleksandar Travanov (eidg. dipl. Inf. Ing. ETH) im Jahr 2000 gegründet wurde. Die Kernkompetenzen liegen in den Bereichen JEE Enterprise Portal Development, Performance Engineering sowie Beratung & Entwicklung.

Infosys

http://www.infosys.com
Infosys defines, designs and delivers technology-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a Flat World. Infosys also provides a complete range of services by leveraging our domain and business expertise and strategic alliances with leading technology providers.

Our offerings span business and technology consulting, application services, systems integration, product engineering, custom software development, maintenance, re-engineering, independent testing and validation services, IT infrastructure services and business process outsourcing.

Infosys pioneered the Global Delivery Model (GDM), which emerged as a disruptive force in the industry leading to the rise of offshore outsourcing. The GDM is based on the principle of taking work to the location where the best talent is available, where it makes the best economic sense, with the least amount of acceptable risk.

World Council of Churches (WCC)

http://www.oikoumene.org/
Inhouse IT of International Secretariat, rent, etc.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, a movement whose goal is Christian unity.

Xeit

http://www.xeit.ch/
Die xeit GmbH bringt Unternehmen, Marken und Produkte über digitale Medien an den Markt und ins Gespräch. Dabei werden Instrumente wie Online-Marketing, Social Media Marketing und Websites eingesetzt.

Als Schweizer Full-Service-Agentur realisieren wir Projekte von der Beratung, über die Kreation bis hin zur Umsetzung - oder werden als Spezialisten punktuell für spezifische Aufgaben eingesetzt.

Read more: http://www.xeit.ch/#ixzz0fn63dtG1

Project Partners

 

 

FPH Fondation pour le Progrès de l’Homme

www.fph.ch

The Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for Human Progress (Fondation pour le Progrès de l’Homme) was established in 1982 by Charles Léopold Mayer’s executor, Madeleine Calame, from the estate bequeathed by him. Its statutory purpose is very broad: to finance, through donations or loans, research and initiatives that contribute in a significant and innovative way to the progress of humankind through science and social development.

 

 

Wegelin

http://www.wegelin.ch/
Founded in 1741, Wegelin & Co. is Switzerland's oldest bank. As a limited partnership, it is one of the few remaining Swiss private banks whose partners have unlimited liability. This legal status - based on the principles of autonomy and personal responsibility - characterizes the business of Wegelin & Co. to a considerable degree.

ECLOF

http://www.eclof.org/
ECLOF provides credit to the poor and the excluded across the world.

It is a non-profit organisation focused on supporting human development and building sustainable communities.

Aiming to strengthen small and social income-generating enterprises, ECLOF offers fair terms of credit through supportive local networks. ECLOF also helps build essential community infrastructure in developing countries.

Founded in 1946 , ECLOF now works through National ECLOFs in thirty countries. ECLOF has over 100,000 active clients with an outstanding loan portfolio of over US$22 million.

Center for Business and Professional Ethics (CBPE)

http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=5232
The Centre for Business and Professional Ethics (CBPE) was established in 1997 as the Centre for Occupational Ethics. It was later repositioned as a Centre within the Graduate School of Management of the University of Pretoria. Currently the Centre is hosted by the Department of Philosophy. The CBPE operates as an interdisciplinary organisation, involving people from various academic disciplines and occupations who are interested in promoting Business and Professional Ethics. Its governing body is an Advisory Committee consisting of representatives from the different faculties at the University of Pretoria, as well as representatives from the broader community.

The Centre’s aim is to play a leading role in addressing moral erosion in South African workplaces by addressing fraud, corruption and governance problems in both private and public sector organisations. To this end the Centre tailors programs that are geared towards facilitating the practical implementation of moral values in the various areas of business and professional life. In partnership with CE and BE at UP, the Centre provides training and consulting services in the areas of ethics management, corruption prevention, and governance and values-based compliance.

We commit ourselves to empowering people to become moral leaders in their places of work. We aim to inspire individuals and organisations and to equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to lead by example and to put structures and policies in place to strengthen the moral ethos of South African workplaces.

Media partners

CSR NEWS
www.csr-news.net
CSR NEWS is one of the worldwide leading internet platforms about Corporate Social Responsibility. On CSR NEWS you will find all that is done, thought and planned in the field of "social responsibility of companies". The company CSR NEWS GmbH is fully owned by the non-profit-making "Corporate Responsibility Foundation". CSR NEWS is neutral and independent. CSR NEWS offers a platform to its members with a far reaching recognition. With about 100.000 visitors per month it is one of the most popular platforms about corporate responsibility worldwide.
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World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)

http://www.waccglobal.org/
WACC promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that defines people’s common humanity, strengthens cultures, enables participation, creates community and challenges tyranny and oppression. WACC’s key concerns are media diversity, equal and affordable access to communication and knowledge, media and gender justice, and the relationship between communication and power. It tackles these through advocacy, education, training, and the creation and sharing of knowledge. WACC’s worldwide membership works with faith-based and secular partners at grassroots, regional and global levels, giving preference to the needs of the poor, marginalised and dispossessed. Being WACC means ‘taking sides’.

Meltwater News

http://meltwater.com/
Meltwater Group is a privately held Norwegian company committed to disrupting the status quo through novel technologies and a powerful, global sales and distribution infrastructure. Meltwater Group currently delivers business solutions based on search engine technology, cloud computing, and biometrics. Within the Meltwater family there are currently four business units focusing on converting these innovative technologies into tangible benefits for our tens-of-thousands of business clients worldwide. We also operate a corporate development arm and a non-profit organization.