TRIGOS 2019 – ten more days until the Deadline

We are looking for Austria’s most responsible companies!

Vienna (OTS) – companies can only to 15. March 2019 submit their projects for the TRIGOS award, Austria’s most prestigious award for responsible business. The winners will be on 12. June 2019 at a Gala ceremony held in Vienna to award the prizes.

Also in 2019, the most extraordinary projects of the Austrian entrepreneurial landscape will be honored for their commitment to responsible business practices with the TRIGOS. With the new category of „climate protection“ addresses the TRIGOS-sponsored by the need, as a company with the impact of climate change. The award of the TRIGOS to pioneer farms to motivate other companies and inspire climate action.

Four reasons why companies TRIGOS 2019 should submit:

* A new, exciting category: climate protection

* Five more developed categories based on the
Responsibility in the core business

* Their sustained commitment to gaining media visibility through a TRIGOS award nomination

* To get a quote for individual Feedback, which gives the company the opportunity to targets, an evaluation of their performance (uA UN Nachhaltgkeit)

Foundation: responsibility in the core business

Businesses can apply this year in six categories according to the developed evaluation criteria is: „Exemplary projects“, „staff-initiatives“, „International commitment“, „Regional value creation“ and „Social Innovation & Future Challenges“ as well as „climate protection“. The basis for all the categories of responsibility in the core business, i.e. the strategic anchoring of corporate sustainability objectives. The submissions will be evaluated according to factors such as innovation, relevance to the SDGs, the impact and future ability of the respective initiatives and projects. By offering feedback to companies also get the opportunity to receive an evaluation of their performance.

The TRIGOS-development is guided by it, in this year of content, and Benchmark analysis are in the foreground.

TRIGOS Regional award in the States

In addition to the nationwide TRIGOS-rentals company, based in Styria and lower Austria to 2019 will also have the opportunity to be regional with the TRIGOS award. All of the participants from these States automatically take part in the national competition and the regional competition. For more information, visit [www.trigos.at/regional] (http://www.trigos.at/regional).

Submission deadline: 14. January to 15. March 2019

The winner of the TRIGOS Austria on the 12. June 2019 will be announced at the nationwide Gala in Vienna. All information is available at [www.trigos.at] (http://www.trigos.at).

TRIGOS-makers A unique platform from business and civil society

Behind the TRIGOS is a unique sponsorship from the business community and civil society, which awarded the prize since 2004, once a year, to Austrian flagship companies. As a carrier of 2019 to act, Caritas, the Federation of Austrian Industrialists (IV), the Austrian Red cross, respACT – austrian business council for sustainable development, the environmental umbrella Association and the economic chamber Austria (WKÖ).

Partner

The TRIGOS is supported by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), of the aussenwirtschaft AUSTRIA of the Austrian Federal economic chamber, the BKS Bank, IKEA, SPAR Handels AG and the Association of business consulting, accounting, and information technology of the Austrian Federal economic chamber (UBIT), as well as the Federal environment Agency. As partners in the hollu, Golden Hill Country and Chalets won.

Hanspeter Wirth/TRIGOS-office
Wiedner main street, 24/11, a-1040 Vienna
Tel: 01/7101077-12; e-mail: h.wirth@respact.at
www.trigos.at – www.trigos.at/presse