Around 4 million students are enrolled at the 860+ PRME business schools worldwide, and thousands of student associations are linked to these establishments. In this context, PGS was launched as a global platform to empower these student organizations to focus on sustainable development and responsible management. In this “Decade of Action,” PGS seeks to foster fruitful and creative collaboration between PRME students by increasing their local and global connection to each other and the university ecosystem, thereby accelerating PRME’s collective impact.

PGS is based on three fundamental pillars – generating awareness (listen to talk) of responsible management and sustainable development among students by encouraging more student-led initiatives, promoting advocacy (talk to walk) by amplifying student calls for RME, and prompting collective action (walking together) between businesses and academia. Together, these goals connect students to business leaders and scholars to help them solve real-life issues.

In January 2023, the PRME DACH Chapter was invited  by the PRME Secretariat  to participate in the PRME Global Student Ambassador Program. This program consisted of 10 online sessions of two hours each, taking place on Saturdays between 11 February and 22 April 2023. The first two sessions were an introduction to PRME and UN Global Compact, followed by six sessions organized by PRME working groups, each with a keynote presentation followed by an assignment/discussion.