The request arrives
A bank renewing your facility, a large customer running supplier due diligence, or an insurer sends a sustainability questionnaire. Often several, all different.
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Saltar al contenido principalYour bank, your largest customer or your insurer has started asking for sustainability data. The VSME is the standard written so that a small or medium-sized company can answer them once, properly, and without being pulled into full CSRD reporting. This course takes you through the whole standard — Basic Module, Comprehensive Module, Annex II — and out the other side with a finished report. Practitioner-led by Dr. Ross Kurinko, human-in-the-loop on every learning route.
The VSME is the EU's voluntary sustainability reporting standard for non-listed micro, small and medium-sized undertakings. It exists because SMEs were being asked for CSRD-grade data they were never in scope to produce. This course is a complete, practitioner-built path through it — built on 15+ years of ESG-reporting practice and delivered inside the AI-powered LRA Study Studio, with real human support on every route.
A bank renewing your facility, a large customer running supplier due diligence, or an insurer sends a sustainability questionnaire. Often several, all different.
Full ESRS reporting is disproportionate and expensive. Ignoring the request risks the facility, the contract or the renewal. Answering each questionnaire separately never ends.
One proportionate report, built to a recognised EU standard — Basic Module alone, or Basic plus Comprehensive when your counterparties need more.
The next questionnaire gets one answer: the report. Each year you refresh the data rather than start again — which is what modules 11 to 13 of this course build.
Every Basic Module disclosure B1 to B11 and every Comprehensive Module disclosure C1 to C9, plus Annex II for banks and investors. Most VSME training stops at "there are two modules". This one works through each datapoint.
Diseñado por el Dr. Ross Kurinko — GRI Certified Global Trainer, PhD, University of Cambridge, más de 15 años en divulgaciones del FTSE 100 y Fortune Global 500 — e impartido por profesionales ESG experimentados. No por licenciatarios de contenido de terceros.
Three full modules are dedicated to running the cycle: launching and planning it, collecting and validating the data, then reviewing, approving, issuing and maintaining the report. That is the part most courses leave out.
En cada itinerario — incluido Guided Flex — puedes trasladar el hilo de la IA a un ser humano real. Apoyo asíncrono del equipo de LRA, o tiempo en directo programado con el Dr. Kurinko, mentores o formadores. Nunca solo IA.
El mismo plan de estudios, cadencias y públicos diferentes. Elige lo que se adapte a tu función, tu agenda y tu presupuesto. Multilingüe: traducción en línea con IA a más de 20 idiomas en todo el plan de estudios, en cualquier formato.
General basis for preparation, the environmental metrics and the workforce metrics. This is the module a bank or customer questionnaire is normally satisfied by.
Strategy, transition and climate risk, deeper workforce and human-rights information, and the two disclosures lenders ask for most: sector revenues and governance gender diversity.
It does not require an ESRS-style double materiality assessment. The course uses a proportionate relevance and applicability process suited to the Voluntary Standard.
It does not require independent assurance. Information should still be supported, reviewed and verifiable — and the course builds the evidence file that makes it so.
It does not require every sustainability report to be public. An undertaking may prepare a controlled report for identified business counterparties.
It does not make every sustainability questionnaire mandatory. The purpose, protected status, exact Annex II mapping and any separate legal or contractual basis must be assessed before the response decision.
Aprendizaje flexible a través del AI-powered LRA Study Studio, con evaluaciones estructuradas y profesionales especializados en informes ESG disponibles para responder tus preguntas a través de la plataforma.
Everything in Guided Flex, plus scheduled live online sessions, cohort-based progression, mentor-reviewed exercises and peer learning around real VSME reporting problems — most of them shared across every SME in the room.
Everything in Guided Flex, plus direct mentor sessions with Dr. Ross Kurinko or a senior LRA mentor (subject to mentor availability), personalised guidance and line-by-line review of your draft VSME disclosures.
Everything in 1:1 Expert Mentorship, plus your existing working documents are reviewed alongside the mentor sessions — data collection workbook · evidence file · draft VSME disclosures · the counterparty questionnaires you are trying to answer. Mentor + practitioner-consultant in one engagement, working with your real cycle via email, file-share and scheduled mentor sessions under NDA. Studio platform stays standard — your documents are not uploaded to the platform; we work them as files.
Bespoke VSME programmes for SME finance and operations teams, and for accountancy firms, audit practices and consultancies setting up a VSME service line for their SME clients. Delivered online, on-site, in London, or as a hybrid programme. Price on request.
The VSME shares its logic — and much of its data — with the full European standards. If your company crosses into CSRD scope, or your clients do, the Certified ESRS (CSRD) course picks up exactly where this one stops: double materiality, all 12 ESRS and assurance readiness. Complete this course on an engaged route and Alumni Club pricing applies to it.
Ideal para: finance and operations people in an SME who have to fit this around the day job.
Ideal para: people who want to see how other SMEs are answering the same questionnaires.
Ideal para: anyone producing a first VSME report on a deadline set by a lender or a customer.
Ideal para: SME finance teams reporting together — and advisory firms building a VSME service line.
You work a manufacturing group with a foreign subsidiary through the whole cycle — and a second, eight-person case for the micro reliefs. Every module ends in a real deliverable: a register, a workbook, a memo, a mapped questionnaire. Not a multiple-choice quiz.
Tiempo directo con el mentor con Dr. Kurinko (1:1 Expert Mentorship), sesiones en directo en línea con mentores sénior de LRA (Live Cohort), o sesiones presenciales / híbridas con un formador sénior (Corporate). La forma de contacto varía; la presencia humana permanece (en línea o Canary Wharf por acuerdo previo).
A frontier-model AI Tutor pinned to every page — translate, simplify, exemplify, ask a follow-up. When text isn't enough, push-to-talk video walkthrough by Dr. Kurinko's official AI avatar. Not "chatgpt" with an ESG hat on.
The course is built around formal checkpoints — report assembly checkpoints, a project launch gate, a draft readiness gate and a final completion gate — plus 12 knowledge-check questions per module at a 75% pass mark. You cannot drift to the end with gaps.
You have to decide whether to report at all, how far to go, and what to sign. Get to working depth fast — the eligibility test, the Basic-versus-Comprehensive decision, what the report commits you to, and the ability to direct, challenge and sign off the work without becoming the person who does it.
In most SMEs this lands on finance. Leave with a reporting project you can run the way you run a year-end: a charter, a datapoint register, a data dictionary, review gates and a management representation pack.
You own the source data — energy, waste, water, headcount, accidents, training, pay. Learn exactly which figure each disclosure wants, on which boundary, and how to evidence it so nobody re-derives it next year.
Master the drafting itself: the disclosure index, the omission log, the narrative claim register, and the difference between verifiable and assured — with the honest-language drills that keep an unassured report clean.
The strongest commercial case on this page. VSME reporting is a repeatable, standardised engagement across your whole client base — and the course gives you the templates, gates and method notes to deliver it at scale rather than reinventing it per client.
You are on the other side of the request. Learn what you may legitimately ask a protected supplier for, what falls outside the cap, and how to design a supplier request that gets answered instead of declined.
Bridge from theory to professional practice on the standard that the largest population of European companies will actually use. Graduate with a recognised LRA credential, a finished worked report and a network of senior practitioners.
GRI Certified Global Trainer, PhD, University of Cambridge, 15+ años en divulgaciones del FTSE 100 y Fortune Global 500. No es una licencia de contenido de terceros.
Applicability matrix · relevance screen · boundary memo · omission log · energy and emissions workbook with factor register · water, waste and biodiversity registers · climate risk register · evidence register · disclosure index · release manifest.
The nine-row cap card for undertakings with 10 employees or fewer, the twenty-three-row matrix above that, a request-purpose questionnaire, a protected-undertaking self-declaration and a model response letter.
Soporte asíncrono del equipo LRA en Guided Flex; tiempo en directo programado con el Dr. Kurinko, mentores o formador en las rutas 1:1 Expert Mentorship, Live Cohort y Corporativa.
Los temas débiles emergen automáticamente hacia un plan de revisión enfocado — las brechas se cierran antes de que aparezcan en tu informe real.
Selecciona cualquier frase en cualquier lección y el AI Tutor la traduce en línea a más de 20 idiomas — árabe, mandarín, hindi, francés, alemán, japonés, coreano, español y más. Las normas permanecen; la barrera del idioma desaparece.
Un evento híbrido anual (Londres + en línea): casos prácticos de antiguos alumnos, mesas de expertos sobre marcos emergentes y networking estructurado. Asistencia gratuita para los miembros del Club.
Llamadas en grupos reducidos con el Dr. Kurinko y entre 6 y 12 antiguos alumnos — trabajamos sobre tus informes reales bajo NDA, comparamos enfoques y depuramos casos límite. El tipo de conversación que los profesionales del reporte no pueden encontrar en ningún otro lugar.
Sesión de preguntas y respuestas en Zoom de 60 minutos cada mes — abierta a los miembros del Club. Trae una pregunta concreta de tu ciclo de reporte actual y obtén una respuesta directa de nivel profesional.
Un espacio de trabajo privado donde los antiguos alumnos de todas las cohortes intercambian consejos, comparten información sobre nuevas regulaciones y formulan preguntas entre pares. El tipo de red que, de otro modo, necesitarías asistir a un año entero de conferencias para construir.
30% de descuento en cualquier curso de LRA, en cualquier formato, en cualquier modalidad independiente — incluyendo los cinco nuevos cursos que se lanzarán antes de finales de 2026 y todos los cursos de LRA posteriores. Acumula credenciales en el portfolio de LRA a precio de miembro.
Cuatro semanas de acceso anticipado antes de cada lanzamiento público — más un voto sobre qué marcos cubrirá LRA a continuación. Los antiguos alumnos dan forma al programa.
Short, member-only video briefings on what's actually changing — the Voluntary Standard's legal status, ESRS amendments, IFRS S1/S2 updates, CSRD waves. Built so you stay up to date without doomscrolling LinkedIn.
LRA mantiene discretamente relaciones con equipos de ESG corporativos y consultoras. Cuando solicitan reporteros formados, los miembros del Club tienen prioridad.
Rutas que desbloquean el Club: Live Cohort · 1:1 Expert Mentorship · Applied Practice.
Guided Flex no desbloquea la membresía del Club — y es algo deliberado. El Club está diseñado para los participantes que eligieron un formato comprometido: tiempo en directo, mentoría o trabajo aplicado. Es un compromiso a largo plazo por parte de LRA, por lo que lo reservamos para los participantes que hicieron un compromiso equivalente.
Estamos especializados en formación en divulgación ESG e informes de sostenibilidad, alineada con Skills England ST0934 y ST0748, con cobertura práctica de GRI, ISSB/IFRS S1/S2, ESRS/CSRD, controles de datos, materialidad, preparación para el aseguramiento y lucha contra el greenwashing.
Grown into CSRD scope? If your group crosses the mandatory reporting thresholds after you enrol, email lra@reporting.academy — we credit your VSME enrolment against the Certified ESRS (CSRD) course so you are not paying twice to learn the same data twice.
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