Social Innovation&Inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals Erasmus Project

Project Title

Social Innovation&Inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Global Goal present a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy inclusion, peace and prosperity. The strategic partnership of the project SociSDG has worked 24 months to develop a SociSDG Handbook and 9 webinars in order to create more understanding and give inspiring guidance for achieving SDGs.
The SociSDGs Handbook and webinars represent a distillation of knowledge gained during the projects by various partners, and also a concrete artefact that is a result of collaboration, discussions and negotiations between various approaches and views. At the same time the handbook should be useful not just for internal stakeholders, workers of project partners, but also for external stakeholders who focus on social aspects of SDGs, good practice examples, and ways how to combine them.

Today, technology analyzes unstructured “abstract” data, such as social performance, as the most important one. In the end, it helps companies see the tangible contribution in achieving SDGs – precisely this was in the focus when it comes to exchanging the best practices of companies in MS, in order to educate European adults; companies and decision makers. In that sense, partnership with Datamaran provided a strategic partnership a use of artificial intelligence (AI) tool in order to make a state of the art of SDGs. For strategic partnership, AI presents multiplier for human ungenuity, opening up entirely new areas to realise full potential of humanity.
The main objectives of SociSDGs were successfully accomplished:
• Increased capacity of all project parrtners in the consortium to work at a transeuropean level, as some organisations never participated in EU projects. With the successful strategic collaboration, partners have successfully submitted project proposals on SDGs and got granted in 2019.
• Increased knowledge and awareness of the target groups about the importance of SDGs, their social component, impacts and integration as a part of the measurement of the SDGs,because of transferred knowledge of the lecturers (project partners) from Learning activities (LA). Number of target groups through dissemination has been accomplished (even higher).
• The creation of:
-a collaborative online and offline platform form for companies, decision makers and society – socisdg.com
-9 webinars
-SociSDG Handbook in .pdf format that summaries the webinars.
-20+ sustainability experts connected in FB group

The project SociSDGs include several types of activities but the most productive were 5 five-day LA, a five short-term joint staff training events were for exchanging practices when it comes to measuring companies social impact and inclusion, and measuring the integration of socially-oriented SDGs in their business models that are build upon the UN guidelines, in order to achieve better understanding of this issue and help companies improve their work and active participation in the sustainable development.
Methodology used during five LAs was twofold: presentation of examples of practical activities by decision makers and enterprises were followed by a discussion and interactive workshop between partners, decision makers and enterprises. In that way the consortium ensured active learning focused on participants. The learning principles of the learning provided HomoEminens. Because of that, project consortium and educators need to develop competences required to understand SDG like: open-minded, critical or out-of-the-box thinking, team work, collaboration, innovation and listening. Those competences are especially important in a lifelong learning perspective, because they are helping participants in achieving greater employability and competitive advantage on the open labour market.
During 5 LAs, 32 enterprise and NGO representatives have shared with the consortium best practices on project topics, and 9 decision makers shared their expertise regarding SDGs.

The project contributed to the realization of strategy Europe 2020 on EU level because it resulted with SDG educational material, increased adult, companies and decision makers who participated at LA, as well as target groups which participated in local educational events, seminars and lectures of the lecturers (project partners).

Participants and their organizations through exchange of practices increase the knowledge of the mentioned topics, meaning that they gained precious knowledge of trends in sustainability that facilitated the development of their work and educational competences, as well as adaption to current and future working conditions.
Participants of the project now understand the importance on non-formal education that enhances their abilities as adult educators, as it enabled them to create educational deliverable that are needed in their future educational, consulting and collaborative work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 105129,54 Eur

Project Coordinator

INSTITUT ZA DRUSTVENO ODGOVORNO POSLOVANJE & Country: HR

Project Partners

• eRevalue ltd
• CONSORZIO MATERAHUB INDUSTRIE CULTURALI E CREATIVE
• KALEIDOSCOPE FUTURES LAB. LTD
• LUM JEAN MONNET
• Nadácia Pontis
• GLOBAL IMPACT GRID GBR
• MB HOMO EMINENS