{"id":82238,"date":"2025-01-16T09:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T09:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epeka.si\/?p=82238"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:59:03","slug":"2025-irdo-become-a-certified-sustainability-and-social-responsibility-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epeka.si\/en\/2025-irdo-become-a-certified-sustainability-and-social-responsibility-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 IRDO &#8211; Become a certified Sustainability and Social Responsibility Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">July 16, 2025<br \/>\nOnline<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A representative of the Association EPEKA, a social enterprise, will participate in three online seminars in 2025 and, at the end, will also take an exam to obtain the IRDO Certificate for Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development of Companies. This will upgrade knowledge of social responsibility and sustainability in line with current EU requirements!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdm_block_inline_text_simplified_2 tdi_52 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_52\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2016, more than 350 managers, experts, and young people have obtained the IRDO certificate. Sustainable development and social responsibility have become the main focus of governments, companies, and organizations around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why social responsibility and sustainable development?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Social responsibility is a tool for achieving sustainable development in line with the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, which were set out by the United Nations in its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015. <strong>Corporate social responsibility brings a competitive advantage and means that companies must be aware of their impact on the community and the environment<\/strong> and report on it, not only with economic but also with environmental and social indicators (ESG). Since 2017, large companies in the EU, including Slovenia, have been required to report on non-financial aspects of their operations in their annual reports, which will be further upgraded in 2024 (mandatory ESRS standards for companies, especially large ones).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Benefits of CSR and TR for companies and organizations:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Improved reputation and profits for companies and organizations<\/li>\n<li>Greater productivity and innovation among employees, less absenteeism and staff turnover<\/li>\n<li>Easier recruitment of new staff, new business partnerships, and new business<\/li>\n<li>Better cooperation with the local community and suppliers<\/li>\n<li>Greater reputation of the company in the community, mutual cooperation with the community<\/li>\n<li>More media coverage, better company recognition&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3>YouTube contribution &#8211; Certificate Leader for Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development (IRDO) &#8211; opinion of participant Katja:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Certifikat Vodja za dru\u017ebeno odgovornost in trajnostni razvoj (IRDO) - mnenje udele\u017eenke Katje\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fSzPA5Y0se4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 16, 2025 Online <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A representative of the Association EPEKA, a social enterprise, will participate in three online seminars in 2025 and, at the end, will also take &#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/en\/2025-irdo-become-a-certified-sustainability-and-social-responsibility-manager\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":91866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,42,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-izobrazevanje-en","category-events","category-first-page"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2025 IRDO - Become a certified Sustainability and Social Responsibility Manager - EPEKA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/epeka.si\/en\/2025-irdo-become-a-certified-sustainability-and-social-responsibility-manager\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2025 IRDO - Become a certified Sustainability and Social Responsibility Manager - EPEKA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"July 16, 2025 Online A representative of the Association EPEKA, a social enterprise, will participate in three online seminars in 2025 and, at the end, will also take ... 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