GCNI Launches ‘Cross-Over Series’

Serving as a platform for networking, knowledge exchange, policy advocacy, cutting edge action research and ‘glocal’ alliances, Global Compact Network India (GCNI) is now pleased to announce its new initiative- ‘Cross-Over Series: Towards Inclusive Learning and Enlightened Leadership’. The objectives of the Series are to promote exchange of innovative ideas and experiences and thereby build a broad-based perspective on addressing some of the key social and environmental challenges of our times. The Series is proposed as a platform that will offer alternative public policy pathways besides intensifying our engagements with key stakeholders regionally.

The inaugural ‘Cross-Over Series’ was held in Bengaluru on 16th September 2014 in collaboration with Prin. L.N.Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, 102/103, Electronic City Phase I, Next to Telephone Exchange, Hosur Road, Bengaluru – 560100. It is also supported by Electronic City Industrial Association Trust (ELCIA-Trust).

Global Compact Network India (GCNI), an Indian arm of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), was launched in the year 2000 and formally registered as a non-profit society in 2003. One of the oldest networks amongst its 103 peers across the world, GCNI is the first local network to be established with full legal recognition. At present, the India network ranks no.1 in the Asia and Oceania region, according to the UNGC Annual Local Networks Report 2013, and has emerged as the largest corporate citizenship and social responsibility organization in the country.

‘Cross-Over Series’ is an ideational platform to be organised in Bengaluru, New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata on a regular basis.