CIRCUlar and Sustainable tools for adults Erasmus Project

Project Title

CIRCUlar and Sustainable tools for adults

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Our industrial economy has hardly moved beyond one fundamental characteristic established in the early days of industrialization: a linear model of resource consumption that follows a take-make-dispose pattern.

Now-a-days people think the faster they replace their gadgets the better – not only their phones, but most items they consume.

Although the EC is allocating efforts in Circular Economy, there is still a high lack of knowledge about how to implement this new model in the organizations or projects. Many people are still defining new projects, bussiness and organizations, considering the linear model.

For this reason, Creativity Works Preston, Permacultura Cantabria and Gmina Starachowice decided to create a strategic partnership and carry out the project “CIRCUlar and Sustainable tools for adults (CIRCUS)”.

We are looking forward to promoting circular economy to adults as it is an innovative topic that needs to be more present in the recent academic literature.

The objectives of our project are:

To exchange knowledge, tools and best practices in our countries and our organizations regarding circular economy
To create an interactive book with new tools and methodologies for the definition and implementation of circular and sustainable projects
To empower adults and adult trainers with new circular economy tools and methodologies for the creation of sustainable projects under circular models

The main activities in our project are:

3 Transnational Meetings:
Kick off meeting in Spain
Intermediate Evaluation in UK
Final Evaluation in Spain

3 Participatory visits: to share tools, knowledge and methodologies in circular economy:
1st Participatory Visit: UK
2nd Participatory Visit: Poland
3rd Participatory Visit: Spain

Creation of an intellectual output: We will develop new circular economy tools for the development of sustainable projects which will be documented in an interactive book.

We will empower adults and adult trainers with new circular economy tools and methodologies for the creation of sustainable projects under circular models through a dissemination campaign. We will transfer them the activities, book and project results so they can benefit from the project.

It is expected that the adult trainers’ and adult participants’ skills, to create sustainable projects under circular economy models are developed. These participants will improve their academic performance, problem-solving and decision-making abilities, leadership and public speaking capacities and, entrepreneurship, circular economy and project management knowledge. This will ease their communication with others and their psychosocial well-being, confidence and empowerment. They will contribute to preserve the planet.

Some of the innumerable benefits circular economy will bring are:

Boost job creation
Foster inclusion
Tackle climate change
Foster entrepreneurship
Boost innovation and competitiveness
Less waste generation
Cheaper production costs
Cheaper products
Responsible consumption, etc.

Project Website

https://www.permaculturacantabria.com/circus/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 155500,25 Eur

Project Coordinator

Creativity Works Preston & Country: UK

Project Partners

• ASOCIACION CULTURAL Y MEDIOAMBIENTAL PERMACULTURA CANTABRIA
• Gmina Starachowice