CITIZEN ACT 2009-2010

What is CITIZEN ACT?

• CITIZEN ACT is THE socially responsible business game.

• It allows your students to discover the 150 jobs that compose a bank, by choosing one of them and imagining its future evolution.

• Students of schools and universities will compete within teams of 3 people, answering the following question:

« Invent the bank of tomorrow»

What differentiates CITIZEN ACT

• Its pedagogy:

– accredited «Technology Enhanced Learning» by EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) in July 2009. The game validate 100 hours of academic work.

– each team of students is coached individually by a SG manager.

– the 180 best students are invited to SG headquarters in February and benefit from a «face-to-face» coaching.

What differentiates CITIZEN ACT

• Its effects:

– 86% of satisfied or very satisfied students

– Numerous participants doing an internship today at SG

– An unprecedented buzz on the web: 10 000 students videos played and seen on Youtube and DailyMotion

What differentiates CITIZEN ACT

• Its attractiveness:

– the best projects are realized by the Group and the students themselves

– students from all countries and selected classes are invited to Paris

– total amount of prizes: 25 000 € / 37 000 $

CITIZEN ACT 2009-2010: why?

• CITIZEN ACT answers 3 objectives:

– Give birth to concrete proposals linked to our business & our identity on the fundamental theme of CSR

– Develop our relations with students to make them discover our jobs and expertises

– To promote our brand & our specificity, expressed globally across all our business lines

CITIZEN ACT 2009-2010

• The game takes place in 3 phases:

– The registration period runs from Friday, October 9th to Sunday, December 6th, 2009

– The 60 best teams are pre-selected and invited to the SG headquarters in Paris to present their project and start the animation of their wikiblog on Thursday, February 18th, 2010

– At the end of the second phase, 6 teams are selected for the final, which takes place during a day in Paris April 15th, 2010. The top 3 projects win an eco-friendly trip!

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• The subject choice is free. It must combine the banking world and the Corporate and Social Responsibility

• For example, responsible finance, sustainable development, but also diversity promotion, the Socially Responsible Investment, the integration of disable people in the company etc.

• This international competition is open to students from 35 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas.

• Throughout the game, students are accompanied by SG coaches and CSR experts to realise the most concrete and innovative project.

• These coaches are often Alumnis of your school, already working with us.

• With CITIZEN ACT, students “choose their weapons to change the world!"

To know more

• CITIZEN ACT interest more and more media (162 titles vs 133 in season II and one TV coverage).

• CITIZEN ACT recognized as the “most 2.0” Business Game

• CITIZEN ACT recognized by the EFMD... the only accredited business game of the banking world!

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