CITIZEN ACT - Season The Societe GeneraleTraining Game

CITIZEN ACT IN A NUTSHELL season CITIZEN ACT is an international Business Game based on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that was first launched in CITIZEN ACT is open to everyone and targets in particular university-level graduate and post-graduate students who wish to improve and implement their knowledge and mastery of CSR.

CITIZEN ACT IN A NUTSHELL season Via CITIZEN ACT, Societe Generale is encouraging young people throughout the world to design and develop the responsible bank project of the future. Thanks to CITIZEN ACT and Societe Generale, this is a true training approach that is recognised and validated by the EFMD. The EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) is the main European certification body for business schools and work- placement training schemes.

REMINDER OF THE MAIN PHASES RECRUITMENT Students are gathering into teams of 3 people throughout the world in order to prepare the first presentation of their project regarding responsible practices of the bank of the future. They submit their projects on At the end of this recruitment phase, a jury of Societe Generale experts meets to select the 45 best projects out of all the ones submitted internationally. THE OPENING MEETING On February 2011, Societe Generale will invite the 45 teams selected to the Head Office in La Defense, Paris. These 135 students will spend a day in the Paris premises to both meet their coaches (Societe Generale employees) and attend workshops that they will choose from a variety on offer: "How to draw up a formal Business Plan", "Social Networks", etc.

REMINDER OF THE MAIN PHASES THE PROJECT DESIGN For four weeks, the teams must improve and enrich their projects using online and offline training modules. Four weeks to convince! This year, the buzz effect is taken into consideration in the marking via a buzzmeter on the team's wiki, this will act as a real time indicator. It is up to the teams to generate awareness and talk around their project on social networks. FINAL CONTEST On April 2011, the 10 teams that have been selected by the jury are requested to come to Paris for the Final Contest. One day's rehearsal with their coach and then the oral examination in front of the jury, their coach and the other runners up. 3 winners will be selected as well as one winning team selected by Societe Generale employees.

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