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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Vai al contenuto principaleYour 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.
Progettato da Dr. Ross Kurinko — GRI Certified Global Trainer, PhD, University of Cambridge, 15+ anni su disclosure FTSE 100 e Fortune Global 500 — ed erogato da practitioner ESG esperti. Non licenziatari di contenuti di terze parti.
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.
Su ogni percorso — incluso Guided Flex — puoi trasferire il thread AI a un vero professionista. Supporto asincrono dal team LRA, o sessioni live programmate con il Dr. Kurinko, mentori o formatori. Mai solo AI.
Stesso curriculum, cadenze e destinatari diversi. Scegli quello che si adatta al tuo ruolo, al tuo calendario e al tuo budget. Multilingue: traduzione AI inline in oltre 20 lingue in tutto il curriculum, in aggiunta a ogni modalità.
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.
Apprendimento flessibile attraverso l'LRA Study Studio alimentato dall'AI, con valutazioni strutturate e professionisti specializzati nel reporting ESG disponibili a rispondere alle domande tramite la piattaforma.
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.
Adatto a: finance and operations people in an SME who have to fit this around the day job.
Adatto a: people who want to see how other SMEs are answering the same questionnaires.
Adatto a: anyone producing a first VSME report on a deadline set by a lender or a customer.
Adatto a: 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.
Tempo diretto con il mentor con Dr. Kurinko (1:1 Expert Mentorship), sessioni live online con mentor senior di LRA (Live Cohort), oppure sessioni in presenza o ibride con un trainer senior (Corporate). La forma di contatto varia; la presenza umana rimane (online o Canary Wharf previo accordo).
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, oltre 15 anni di esperienza su disclosure FTSE 100 e Fortune Global 500. Non una licenza di contenuti di terze parti.
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.
Supporto asincrono del team LRA sul Guided Flex; tempo live programmato con Dr. Kurinko, mentor o trainer su 1:1 Expert Mentorship, Live Cohort e percorsi Corporate.
I punti deboli emergono automaticamente in un piano di revisione mirato — le lacune si colmano prima che appaiano nel report reale.
Evidenzia qualsiasi frase in qualsiasi lezione e l'AI Tutor la traduce inline in oltre 20 lingue — arabo, mandarino, hindi, francese, tedesco, giapponese, coreano, spagnolo e altre ancora. Gli standard rimangono; la barriera linguistica scompare.
Evento annuale ibrido (Londra + online): casi di studio presentati da alumni colleghi, esperti ospiti che coprono le ultime evoluzioni normative e una sessione di Q&A aperta con Dr. Kurinko.
Chiamate in piccoli gruppi con Dr. Kurinko e 6–12 alumni — lavoriamo sui tuoi reali problemi di rendicontazione, sfide di assurance e casi pratici attuali. Struttura: sessioni di 90 minuti focalizzate sui problemi.
Q&A su Zoom di 60 minuti ogni mese — aperto ai membri del Club. Porta una domanda specifica, un caso reale o una sfida di implementazione.
Uno spazio di lavoro privato in cui gli alumni di ogni coorte si scambiano suggerimenti, condividono informazioni sulle tendenze del mercato del lavoro ESG, chiedono riscontri peer su questioni di reporting e restano in contatto con i colleghi LRA.
30% di sconto su qualsiasi corso LRA, in qualsiasi formato, autonomo — inclusi i cinque corsi attualmente in pipeline.
Quattro settimane di accesso anticipato prima di ogni lancio pubblico — più un voto su quali framework LRA dovrebbe sviluppare dopo.
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 relazioni con team ESG aziendali e società di consulenza. Quando emergono opportunità adatte agli alumni, vengono condivise attraverso il canale Slack del Club e la newsletter.
Percorsi che danno accesso al Club: Live Cohort · 1:1 Expert Mentorship · Applied Practice.
Guided Flex non sblocca l'iscrizione al Club — ed è una scelta deliberata.
Siamo specializzati in formazione su informativa ESG e rendicontazione di sostenibilità, allineata a Skills England ST0934 e ST0748, con copertura pratica di GRI, ISSB/IFRS S1/S2, ESRS/CSRD, controlli sui dati, materialità, preparazione all'assurance e lotta al 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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