ASSET – Accounting for Sustainability, Social and Environmental Transparency
ASSET is an Erasmus+ KA2 project that aims to integrate sustainability into academic accounting programs.
The Mission
As future accounting professionals and business managers, accounting students will be crucial in promoting sustainable development by stimulating changes in companies’ priorities, spreading a sustainability culture in organisations and fostering the implementation of environmental and social initiatives, even beyond compliance with laws and jurisdictional regulations.
The Partners
The Project is under the developing of 8 European universities with a long tradition of collaboration in offering innovative teaching programs on accounting, finance, and auditing.
The long-lasting collaboration of ASSET’s project consortium allowed it to successfully realise several intensive study programs (ISPs) in accounting, being attended by more than 100 European students every year coming from all over Europe.
UBS - UNIVERSITE DE BRETAGNE SUD
France
IPP - INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DO PORTO
Portugal
UVIGO - UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO
Spain
DUTH - DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE
Greece
WUT - UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA
Romania
ISM - VADYBOS IR EKONOMIKOS UNIVERSITETAS UAB
Lithuania
JKU – JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY OF LINZ
Austria
The objectives
The ASSET project (Accounting for Sustainability, Social and Environmental Transparency) aims to update traditional university accounting programs by embedding and promoting a new sustainability-oriented mindset in different areas of accounting (corporate reporting, managerial accounting, finance, and taxation).
ASSET’s Intensive Study programs
The three-year project (2023-2026) aims to organise annual Intensive Study Programs, where academics and students from partner universities will be involved in an educational program covering the following topics:
- Disclosing business value through sustainability and ESG reporting;
- Sustainability management accounting;
- Providing assurance on sustainability reports;
- Sustainability, taxation, and strategic decision-making.
ISP 2024
ISP 2025
ISP 2026
News & Events
ASSET on the University of Urbino’s blog
We’re thrilled to announce that a new article has been published on the University of Urbino's blog, featuring our international ASSET project! Since December 2023, the university has been leading the ASSET – Teaching Accounting for Sustainability, Social and...
Exciting Feedback from Our First ISP! 🌟
We're excited to announce that the first ISP (Intensive Study Program) of the ASSET Project took place in September 2024! 🎉 The program kicked off with Teaching Module 1: "Disclosing Business Value through Sustainability and ESG Reporting." This module dives into how...
🌟 UVigo Showcases ASSET Project at Open Space 2024 🌟
Last week, the University of Vigo (UVigo) participated at the Open Space 2024, organized by the European University Foundation and hosted by the University of Murcia, Spain. Our team had the incredible opportunity to share insights and developments from the ASSET...