Achieving Sustainability through INTRApreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Achieving Sustainability through INTRApreneurship

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Environment and climate change; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

SINTRA – Achieving Sustainability through INTRApreneurship is a 2-year Erasmus+ KA2 adult education project, which aims at providing an integrated support, tailored to the needs of organisations for the development of intrapreneurship-related skills, competences and attitudes among both employees and employers for improving the organisations’ environmental impact and their social and business sustainability. Thus, the project proposal identifies employees and employers in organisations, operating in the business, civil or government sector as its target groups, who will be supported through the elaboration and validation of innovative integrated training tools and material to facilitate the development of intrapreneurial minds of employees and employers for enhancing the environmental, social and business sustainability of organisations at national and European level.

SINTRA consortium comprises 7 partner organisations from 6 countries (Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece and Portugal), gathered around the idea that building capacity within organisations for gathering ideas and developing them further to intrapreneurial efforts for the modification of products, services and organisational processes has an enormous potential for sustainability impact.

SINTRA sets the following objectives, reflected in the main intellectual outputs to be produced and results achieved under the project:
1. Better understanding of national and sectoral contexts in the field of environmental, social and economic sustainability from an intrapreneurial perspective and identification of existing gaps in the intrapreneurial mindset at organisational level.
2. Elaboration of an innovative training methodology, tools and material, combining the processes of sustainability-focused intrapreneurial training and counselling in a single, integrated approach, in order to enhance the environmental impact of organisations and their social and business sustainability.
3. Address the needs of organisations by delivering pilot sustainability-oriented workshops and counselling services, which will enhance intrapreneurial efforts, that might eventually lead to the development/modification of new/existing products and services and the improvement of existing processes.
4. Transfer the project effects to other countries through the set-up of an e-Learning Platform and the creation of an open innovation toolkit (incl. an online app) for sustainability-focused intrapreneurship.

The SINTRA project will systematically evolve, following elaborate research activities, to develop tailor-made training resources and establish an interactive e-Learning Platform and Open Innovation Toolkit, both targeted at sustainability-focused intrapreneurship support of employees, employers and their organisations across Europe. The overall project’s implementation is structured in 4 phases, corresponding to the delivery of the intellectual outputs, whereas these phases will be supplemented by multiplier events and project meetings.

The project phases are reflected in the overall approach, to be used for the implementation of the project, which is based upon proven methodologies, using an investigation of Good Practices and Gap Analysis for accurate definition of the project framework in the 1st phase of the project (IO1), as well as building upon existing knowledge and success stories. These will eventually develop into: Innovative Training Material, incl. training curriculum, content and tools for sustainability-oriented intrapreneurial support of employees and employers in organisations (IO2-a); e-Learning Platform (IO3) and Open Innovation Toolkit for Sustainability-focused Intrapreneurship (IO4); piloting, through organisation of training workshops and delivery of counselling services for development of sustainability-oriented intrapreneurial assignments for representatives of the project’s target groups (IO2-b).

SINTRA is expected to directly benefit, at the different stages of its implementation, min. 120 employees and employers in different types of organisations, to take part in the sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship pilot training workshops and counselling services (min. 20 per country). In addition, the partners expect to directly involve min. 165 relevant stakeholders (indirect beneficiaries) in the project’s multiplier events (6 National multiplier events and a Final Conference).

The ambition of the SINTRA consortium is to make the tools, designed within the project, exploitable and transferable for supporting sustainability-oriented intrapreneurship uptake in organisations in different national and cultural contexts, even beyond the consortium composition and after the completion of the project. To this end, it is necessary to take the diverse specificities and needs of employees and employers in a multinational context, which further reinforces the need for and the added value of the transnational implementation of project activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 250122 Eur

Project Coordinator

Simenntunarmidstodin a Vesturlandi & Country: IS

Project Partners

• SIHTASUTUS NOORED TEADUSES JA ETTEVOTLUSES
• Tora Consult Ltd.
• Dialogue Diversity Unipessoal Lda
• Razvojna agencije Grada Velika Gorica – VE-GO-RA
• Creatrix ehf
• APOPSI YPIRESIES PLIROFORIKIS SYMVOULEFTIKIS KAI EKPAIDEFSIS ANONYMI ETAIREIA