Awards and engagements

Here you will find a selection of the awards and engagements, related to responsible enterprise, that Volvo Group has received or been involved in recently.

The Folksam Index
The 2010 Folksam Index for responsible business enterprise - drawn up by the Swedish insurer, Folksam - ranked the 259 Swedish listed companies.
Volvo Group recieved seven out of seven stars. For our work on Human rights we recieved five out of seven stars.

The Nordic Sustainability Stars index
AB Volvo has, as one of the top 25 most sustainable companies in Sweden, qualified for the Nordic Sustainability Stars index. The index is a tool for assessing the Nordic corporate governance on sustainability covering the 260 most actively traded companies in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. It draws on various sustainability fields with questions that are answered by examination of the public media as Annual Report, Sustainability report, website etc.

OEKOM research
Volvo Group has been analysed by OEKOM research, with result as a status Prime company rated B, well above average commitment to environmental and social issues. OEKOM research analyses companies using an average of 100 social and environmental industry specific indicators, selected from a pool of 500. Analysts collect information from the companies being analyzed and from independent experts. The overall analysis is graded on a twelve point scale from A+ to D-.

ECPI Ethical Index Global
AB Volvo is a constituent of ECPI Ethical Index Global. ECPI is a research and business index where 300 companies worldwide and 150 European companies are registered as recommended investments in accordance to ECPIs SRI (Socially Responsible Investing) research method in which securities are selected based on criteria that has to do with how the company performs environmentally, socially and ethically.

ECPI Global Carbon Equity Index
AB Volvo is a constituent of the ECPI Global Carbon Equity Index, an investable index picking companies best equipped to tackle a world of rising carbon emissions and tougher climate legislation from carbon intensive sectors such as Utilities, Basic Materials, Industrial and Energy.

Sustainable Value Creation
The Volvo Group has gained top ranking in Sustainable Value Creation (Hållbart Värdeskapande), a survey on responsible business practices conducted by Sweden’s largest institutional investors. The survey studied the 100 largest corporations listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (OMX), covering four main categories: guidelines and commitments, implementation and compliance, communication and reporting and the Board's responsibility. The Volvo Group was the only corporation with top ranking in all four categories.

Top ranking in CSR survey
The Volvo Group has gained top ranking in a survey on responsible business practices conducted by Sweden’s largest institutional investors. The survey studied the 100 largest corporations listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (OMX). Read more

Volvo Adventure
In partnership with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Volvo operates an international competition for school children in the 13-16 age group. The purpose is to activate young people to get involved and improve their local environment.
Winners 2009
HUNAB, Proyecto de vida AC, Mexico
Project: "Acquaponics to save biodiversity and town's economy"
Read more at Volvo Adventure

Volvo Employees' Aid Association
Since 1976, Volvo employees have donated nearly SEK 15 M to some 200 projects in developing countries worldwide. This is a non-profit association, as well as being politically and religiously independent, and is open to all employees at the Volvo Group.
Visit VUH.nu (in Swedish only).

Volvo's Foundations
The Volvo Group has a number of foundations that award scholarships to prominent researchers and organizations to promote research in various spheres.

The Volvo research and education foundations - Assar Gabrielesson's Foundation and the Volvo Environment Prize Foundation allocated a total of SEK 40.2 M to various scholarships in 2008. Read more at Volvo Research and Educational Foundations website.

The Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF)
VREF is a generic term for four independent foundations. For the millennium the Board of VREF has initiated a new research programme to be funded - Future Urban Transport (FUT). The foundations commonly support the programme by providing funds for research and educational projects.
Visit www.vref.se/

The Assar Gabrielsson Award
Medical Doctor Fredrik Persson received the Assar Gabrielsson award 2010 for his dissertation at the University of Gothenburg on the treatment of genomic imbalances in tumors.
Press release May 11, 2010
Website in Swedish: http://www.agfond.se/

Håkan Frisinger's Scholarship
The Håkan Frisinger Foundation for Transportation Research is awarding its scholarship for 2009 to Professor Magnus Skoglundh of Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. The award of SEK 250,000 has been granted to Magnus Skoglundh for his outstanding research in the field of emission catalysis.-makers in society and the business community. Press release March 3, 2010

Volvo Environment Prize Foundation
Susan Solomon wins the Volvo Environment Prize for 2009 - delivering findings on ozone layer depletion and prominent on the UN climate panel.
Read more at http://www.environment-prize.com/.

Volvo's President and CEO awarded the Mekanprisma
On May 5, 2009 Leif Johansson, President and CEO of the Volvo Group, received the Mekanprisma Award at the Annual General Meeting of the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries in Stockholm. The Mekanprisma Award is a prestigous honor awarded to persons who made significant contributions to the Swedish engineering industry.
Press release May 5, 2009

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