Green Award Welcomes Alba & Deree as New Incentive Providers

On Wednesday September 7, Alba and Deree celebrated their acceptance as the first Academic Institution to be named a Green Award Incentive Provider.

Green Award inspects and certifies shipping companies and ships that go well over and above statutory requirements. Ships and companies, which have succeeded in complying with the Green Award standards, get a certificate. Ports and maritime sector companies reward their efforts by offering special deals and discounts.

By joining the certification scheme, Alba and Deree will endorse achievements of Green Award certificate holders, furthering the non-profit’s ambition to “drive the highest standards in environmental performance and safety in shipping.”

Green Award Chairman, Captain Dimitrios Mattheou, met with ACG President David G. Horner and Alba Dean Kostas Axarloglou at the ceremony on September 7. “Alba and Deree are dedicated to educate visionary leaders of tomorrow, who will act as agents of change and help shape the future business world,” Captain Mattheou said, as ACG will now offer all Green Award certified companies’ and vessels’ employees and their children a 10% scholarship on undergraduate, graduate, and executive courses.

“In recent years The American College of Greece has committed itself to implementing a comprehensive sustainability initiative,” said Dr. Horner. “Last year we were proud to be the first college or university in Europe and only the third outside the United States and Canada to receive a STARS rating. Supporting the Green Award is a wonderful addition to our growing portfolio of sustainability activities.”

Find out more about the Green Award.

High Praise for the MSc in Strategic Human Resource Management

The largest society of HR specialists, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), with 285,000 professionals in over 165 countries, has recently recognized the MSc in Strategic Human Resource Management by Alba, as being fully aligned with the SHRM’s HR Curriculum Guidebook and Templates!

The guidelines are part of the society’s Academic Initiative in an effort to define HR education standards taught in business schools across the world, and help universities develop degree programs of the highest caliber, that follow these industry standards.

Find out more about the MSc in Strategic Human Resource Management at Alba Graduate Business School. You can find more information on the Society for Human Resource Management, here.

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