THE GOOD MANAGER Erasmus Project

Project Title

THE GOOD MANAGER

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Faced with the climate crisis, saving and rationalizing energy also concerns the Internet and its websites, designed today to host more and more videos and high-definition and enriched content…
The global movement of digitization of society, which is leading towards ever more connectivity and enriched content, raises the question of its control and sustainability.

Beyond the words “Print this email only if necessary”, it is urgent to train professionals in charge of digital projects on these issues, to enable them to develop digital strategies that fully integrate the issues of social and environmental responsibility and thus enable them to implement new professional practices. Today’s entrepreneurs must fully grasp the challenges opened up by the necessary fight against climate change in order to innovate differently.

Social and environmental responsibility must go hand in hand with the issue of e-accessibility. Beyond the legal obligation to develop digital content according to accessibility rules and standards, it appears that the “low-tech” design of websites considerably improves the accessibility of contents. Less cumbersome sites are more accessible for users with low quality internet connections. Limited visual effects make it easier for users with special needs to read and navigate.
Our objective is to encourage digital professionals to think about combining eco-design AND content accessibility. A more sustainable internet must also be a more accessible internet.

We also wish to contribute to the reduction of the environmental gap by encouraging the integration of people in precarious situations, with disabilities and/or far from the digital world into innovative digital projects and by training them in this environmental, social and economic responsibility.
Thus, the project aims at further strengthening key competence (improving the digital skills and knowledge) in continuing VET and enhancing access to this training and qualifications for all learners, including the professionals with disabilities and/or disorders. The issues of accessibility, inclusion, digital sobriety and sustainability must become the key competencies of digital professionals and entrepreneurs.

The digitisation of society impacts all professional sectors. The transition to an Internet and a reasoned and inclusive digital project management cannot take place without active and massive training of all its actors: project managers, creative people, communicators, entrepreneurs, content editors and broadcasters… set up by those who accompany them: trainers from the VET community, incubators, public actors, etc.

That’s why we brought together professionals from the VET community, digital sector and entrepreneurial mentoring to create The Good Manager: a set of modular, open source and free educational resources, gathered on a platform designed according to the principles of low digital design. Partnership management and project implementation will be implemented with a view to minimizing the environmental impact of the actions (eco-responsible project management tools, limited travel) and to ensuring accessibility of tools and documents for professionals with specific needs.

Practically, we expect an eco-designed and accessible platform gathering all the project resources and dissemination activities in the 5 languages of the partnership (French, English, Bulgarian, Spanish and Italian). This includes:
> the documentation of the platform (in the form of tutoring and feedback from the partners in its design), translated into the 5 languages of the partnership.
> a database of projects and professionals working for innovative, inclusive and low-tech digital solutions (tools, management, achievements), European and collaborative, in the form of an interactive map and developed in wiki format.
> a training implementation guide for the VET community
> 3 micro-learning modules on eco-design, accessibility and sustainable and inclusive project management, estimated at 1 day of learning each (about 20 hours training).

The Good Manager’s resources have the objective to be disseminated as widely as possible in all professional sectors in order to contribute to digital sobriety and inclusion.

The digitisation of society and the issue of the environmental, social and economic impact of digital are transnational issues. The implementation of European projects are themselves at the heart of these issues.
We therefore wish to pool our experience and skills to make The Good Manager both a European experiment and an exchange of good practices on the issues of innovation and digital eco-design, digital accessibility and conscious and inclusive project management.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 292893 Eur

Project Coordinator

PARIS ET COMPAGNIE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• NIKANOR LTD
• Les Apprimeurs
• DOMSPAIN SLU
• Fondazione Istituto dei Sordi di Torino ONLUS
• SCS LogoPsyCom