What is the VSME standard?
The Repository VSME (Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for Micro-Entities) Was developed by EFRAG to allow VSEs, SMEs and micro-enterprises To structure a Voluntary Extra-Financial Reporting across 90 data points, without the complexity of CSRD.
Designed as a first step towards more mature ESG practices, VSME allows Formalize your commitments, impacts and sustainable actions, with accessible language and key data, while meeting the growing expectations of your customers, partners or funders.
Challenges & complexities of VSME
📂 Understand and apply a framework that is still young
Even voluntary, VSME requires a structured analysis of your impacts, policies, indicators and action plans. It can be difficult to know where to start, how to prioritize, and how to make the report readable without internal ESG expertise.
How Harness simplifies VMSE for you
🛠️ A guided, automated and contextualized journey
- Assisted start with Sectoral framework
- Integrated AI for Generate Your Policies and Summaries
- Easy collection via simple forms or Excel import
- Automatically generated VSME report (Word/PDF customizable)
- Possibility to then switch to VSME+ or CSRD without re-entering
Benefits for your organization
📊 Gain clarity, credibility and time
- Formalize your ESG commitments without complexity
- Promote your first actions with your partners
- Build a solid foundation to move towards more ambitious reporting
Save time and professionalize your ESG communication
🚀 Launch your first ESG report with Harnest and the VSME format