Environmental change in European start-uppers thinking and acting – the solution for common sustainable development Erasmus Project

Project Title

Environmental change in European start-uppers thinking and acting – the solution for common sustainable development

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

Project Summary

This project will be in line with the European Green Deal postulates focusing especially on topics of circular economy and sustainable solutions. The project Consortium will be taking the topics a step further, transforming opportunities into solutions. Different skills and competencies should be developed and mindsets changed. People no matter their workplace should be prepared to understand the disruptive changes around them.
The circular economy is an enormous challenge for developing and emerging countries, in terms of capabilities to ensure efficient treatment of waste, the responsibility over social behaviours. Moreover, what can be observed across the EU, is the struggle of municipals over waste management, which is no longer the management of municipal waste, but also industrial waste.
The aim of the project: to strengthen the quality of start-uppers, young entrepreneurs and VET providers and enhance their professional development through improving environmental change competences as well as give them opportunity to validate these competences and adapt VET provision. In “European employment strategy” strong support for entrepreneurs and the self-employed is given through jobs creation, skills development and giving the opportunity for people to fully participate in society and the economy.
Through this project we want to directly help enterprising, active people to develop their professional competences, and – indirectly – to provide the whole startups sectors with specific knowledge. Experiences with startuppers are commonly analysed not on local or regional level but across countries, because those firms operates in specific, mostly high-tech sectors and their scope of activity is often transitional. That is the first reason, why this project should be done within transnational partnership. The second one is the experience and background of entities involved in the project (related with start-ups support or collaboration with), which have to be joined to get synergy effect.
Output 1 will be led by RARR in terms of coordination of works related to the creation of Curriculum scope.
Output 2 will be led by Danmar in terms of coordination of works related to the creation of functionalities and programming and additional with methodological assistance from the UM. Each partner will be responsible involved in the creation of content Training digital materials, which will be divided into 6 thematic parts: Each part will be coordinated by another partner:
Part1 – Ways of transition to natural energy and combating climate change – RARR
Part 2 – Towards biodiversity and ecological transformation of companies -CETEM
Part 3 – Plastic waste management in your SME – Mindshift
Part 4 – Redesigning products and services to minimise the use of materials – Danmar
Part 5 – Circular businesses models – THIC
Part 6 – Life cycle thinking – UM
Partners come from a variety of geographical and professional backgrounds to ensure the successful implementation of this multi-level project. Specifically, the consortium creates synergy of partners from Development Agency (RARR), technical university (UM), Technical institute (TIHC), NGO and umbrella organization (CETEM), and SMEs (DANMAR, Mindshift).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 215668 Eur

Project Coordinator

RZESZOWSKA AGENCJA ROZWOJU REGIONALNEGO SPOLKA AKCYJNA & Country: PL

Project Partners

• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• KEK TEHNIKES SHOLES EPIMELITIRIOU IRAKLEIOU
• ASOCIACION EMPRESARIAL DE INVESTIGACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DEL MUEBLE Y LA MADERA DE LA REGION DE MURCIA
• Mindshift Talent Advisory lda
• UNIVERZA V MARIBORU