The university’s School of Management and Social Sciences has been selected to host the 15th PRME Latin America and Caribbean Meeting 2026, which will take place on October 22 and 23 in the new Business School building.
In recent years, ORT has established an academic approach that integrates sustainability across all disciplines, combining academic excellence, innovation, and responsibility.
The 2026 edition will be organized around the theme “Collaborate to Transform: Collective Values in Responsible Education, ” which focuses activities on collaborative work and creating impact through business education.
Website for the 15th PRME Latin America and the Caribbean Meeting
The event will feature Dr. David Steingard, Head of PRME at the United Nations Global Compact. His participation reaffirms the global commitment to the initiative and the prominent role that Latin America and the Caribbean play in the agenda for responsible management education.
“As PRME signatories, we have the power and the responsibility to transform the future of our region,”said Dr. Nicolás Gambetta, chair of the meeting and academic vice dean of the School of Management and Social Sciences. The Latin American and Caribbean region, he explained, faces environmental, social, and economic challenges “that no single institution can tackle alone, and that require collective, bold, and sustained responses.”
Business schools play a central role in this response: training leaders capable of fostering inclusive prosperity while protecting the environment, and transforming companies into true forces for regeneration in their communities.
Dr. Nicolás Gambetta, chair of the meeting
The event will bring together universities, educators, researchers, and companies committed to developing responsible leaders.
A space to rethink business education
Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) is an initiative launched by the United Nations Global Compact that seeks to integrate values of sustainability, social responsibility, and ethics into management education. Currently, has than 800 participating institutions worldwide.
In this context, the 2026 Latin America and Caribbean Chapter meeting will provide an opportunity to exchange experiences, share best practices, and strengthen networks among institutions in the region.
The call for submissions of academic papers and case studies, business case studies, and student projects is now open, with a deadline of June 15, 2026.
The 15th PRME Latin America and Caribbean Conference invites submissions across ten thematic tracks:
- partnerships for collective action,
- due diligence in supply chains,
- climate action and biodiversity,
- equity and inclusion,
- communities and local development,
- sustainable governance and finance,
- entrepreneurship and innovation,
- collaborative teaching approaches,
- examples of transformative collaboration,
- Youth leadership based on values.
We are accepting four types of submissions—academic papers (theoretical, methodological, or empirical), academic case studies, business case studies, and student projects—all of which must be unpublished and written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English. The submission deadline is June 15, 2026.
The winning entries will be eligible for three prizes:
- the Consuelo García de la Torre Award (USD 1,000), awarded to the best academic paper or case study that contributes to education for sustainable development and the PRME principles;
- the Best Business Case Award (USD 500), for projects that document best practices in sustainability that have an impact on the company and its surroundings;
- the Best Student Project Award (USD 500), intended for undergraduate or graduate projects related to the event’s central theme.
The event aims to establish a forum for academic dialogue focused on addressing the region’s major social, environmental, and economic challenges.
Participants can now reserve their spot at one of the region’s most prominent sustainability and responsible education events by filling out this registration form.
Now is the time to reimagine our educational mission. To revolutionize our teaching methods, our research, and our institutional practices. To build powerful partnerships between academia, the business sector, and civil society that will give rise to the new educational paradigm the world needs. The future of business education is not defined elsewhere or at some other time: it is defined here, among us, right now.
Dr. Nicolás Gambetta, chair of the meeting
Website for the 15th PRME Latin America and the Caribbean Meeting