Social Responsibility

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY POLICY

The IPAM’s Social Responsibility (SR) policy serves three entities: the Student, the University and the surrounding Community.
The importance of a volunteering experience for the student adds value to their professional training and enriches their development as a person and as a citizen.

For IPAM, social responsibility practices mean greater proximity to the community, a useful contribution and a responsible image in line with its own institutional philosophy, whose values are guided by truth, transparency, rigour and the sharing of knowledge.

This translates into an invaluable gain for the community. It is in a narrative of solidarity and social participation that we find a more balanced and fairer society, and that we focus on a sound and sustainable development. This is the benefit we offer to the community.
Creating Global Professionals also means fostering impactful and aware citizens, prepared to create a sustainable world, socially, economically and environmentally.

OBJECTIVES

1. Mobilise IPAM's Community for social and environmental Social Responsibility projects, involving students, professors and collaborators;
2. Raising awareness on the importance of volunteering and Corporate Social Responsibility;
3. Bolster IPAM as a socially responsible institutions.

PRINCIPLES

• Responsibility;
• Diversity;
• Transparency;
• Ethical Conduct;
• Respect for human rights;
• Respect for the interests of the parties involved, namely students, professors, collaborators and the surrounding community.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DAY
Social Responsibility Day is a symbolic annual event held by Universidade Europeia, IADE and IPAM where the academic community is invited to participate in a volunteering project of a social and/or environmental nature. Over 800 volunteers have already participated in the Day, marked in the school calendar as a day without lessons.

Last editions:
2015 - Forest Clean up and Maintenance of the Mafra National Woods (Fotos | Video)
2016 - Environmental Restoration of the Leiria National Woods (Fotos | Video)

PROJECTS
During the academic year, IPAM develops and participates in a number of social projects, supporting several institutions and causes, such as blood drives, collecting toys for children who are hospitalised at the Portuguese Oncology Institute (IPO), collecting clothes for Comunidade Vida e Paz, amongst many others.