The Il Sole 24 ORE Group wins the 2026 HEART Award for the best use of CSR in human resources
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The Il Sole 24 ORE Group received the 2026 HEART Award in the 'Best Use of Corporate Social Responsibility in HR' category for its 2025-2027 Sustainability Plan, which integrates sustainability objectives into governance and management incentives, with 5,352 hours of training in 2025, renewal of the certification for gender equality and 100 employees involved in corporate volunteering, in addition to the 'Listening to include' project with NoisyVision to improve accessibility through direct listening to people with visual disabilities.
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The HEART Awards were established by People are People, a newspaper of Oltre La Media Group, to recognize the best HR practices and projects that put people at the center of company strategies, based on the principles of Humanity, Empowerment, Awareness, Respect and Talent.
The Il Sole 24 ORE Group received the 2026 HEART Award in the "Best Use of Corporate Social Responsibility in HR" category, an initiative promoted by People are People, the Oltre La Media Group newspaper, and dedicated to best HR practices and projects that put people at the center of company strategies.
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The awards ceremony took place in Milan on the evening of Wednesday 23 September as part of the first edition of the HEART Awards, an initiative that promotes organizations concretely engaged in the fields of inclusion, change management, well-being and talent development. HEART is the acronym for Humanity, Empowerment, Awareness, Respect and Talent, the principles that guided the evaluation of the candidate projects.
During the evening, 22 category prizes and 5 special mentions from the Jury were awarded, in recognition of projects developed by companies of different sizes and belonging to different sectors.
The recognition given to the Il Sole 24 ORE Group rewards a precise choice: making sustainability a measurable commitment in the way of working. The 2025-2027 Sustainability Plan assigns objectives and KPIs, integrates them into governance and also links them to management incentives. In 2025, this path translated into 5,352 hours of training for employees, the renewal of the gender equality certification and the involvement of approximately 100 people in corporate volunteering.
The “Listening to include” project, created with NoisyVision, shows what it means to start from people: directly involving those who experience a visual disability, listening to their experience and collecting indications to make spaces more accessible. This is the meaning of the award: to recognize an organization that tries to transform listening into choices, inclusion into daily practice and sustainability objectives into verifiable results.
Open Questions
- What are the specific objectives of the 2025-2027 Sustainability Plan in addition to the training hours and gender equality certification?
- How will the impact of the 'Listen to include' project on corporate spaces be measured?
- What other companies have won awards in other categories of the 2026 HEART Awards?
