COMPetences for Agencies for Sustainable Site conversion Erasmus Project

Project Title

COMPetences for Agencies for Sustainable Site conversion

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

CONTEXT:
The increasingly worrying convergence of different crises in EU requires our society to reconsider our production and consumption models: it is urgent to foster the creation of synergies between private actors, institutions, social groups and unions, which need to work together in order to achieve a successful ecological conversion of our production models. Our partnership believes that educational improvements can help employability and reduce poverty, so the project is inspired to the priorities of EU 2020 Strategy, and its activities aim to contribute to the achievement of Strategy 2020 targets on Employment and Climate change and energy sustainability.

OBJECTIVES:
Main: To build and deliver a training path aimed at creation and recognition of a new professional profile/curriculum in response to the emerging need of the EU job market: a Sustainable conversion consultant, a professional able to move into a global/local contest and understand and promote transition scenarios towards environmental and social sustainability.
Specific:
– promote green entrepreneurship education for developing active citizenship, employability and creation of new professional CV;
– support lifelong learning and work paths for individuals;
– support the mainstreaming of OERs for lifelong learning;
– provide partner organizations with new tools to improve/renew/update their training offer;
– establish connections and business partnerships between different actors;
– promote and raise awareness throughout EU on the opportunities of employment offered by green jobs.

TARGET GROUPS:
– young unemployed graduates of several backgrounds: architects, urban planners, engineers, urban sociologists;
– older unemployed professionals of the same backgrounds who have had previous work experience but have lost their jobs;
– administrators of local public authorities.

INDIRECT TARGET GROUPS:
– university students, private actors, consultants and professionals interested or involved in sustainable conversion/green economy sectors, local authorities, policy makers.

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS (6):
Lead:
Society for Sustainable Development Design (DOOR), Croatia – a civil society organization of experts devoted to the promotion of sustainable energy development, www.door.hr.
Partners:
A Sud – Ecologia e Cooperazone ONLUS, Italy – an independent Italian association dedicated to environmental, intercultural and educational issues, www.asud.net.
Ce.S.F.Or. Centro Studi Formazione Orientamento, Italy – a non-profit association accredited and recognized for the activities of higher education and research, www.cesfor.net.
Civitas Foundation for Civil Society – Cluj Branch, Romania, a foundation that aims to stimulate local & regional development, www.civitas.ro.
EUROPANORAT Beratung, Training, Management, Consulting GmbH, Germany, a private educational provider, www.europanorat.de.
BULGARIAN DEVELOPMENT AGENCY SDRUZHENIE, Bulgaria – a non-profit association aims to contribute to regional development as well as to promote the democratic and integration processes in the context of Knowledge society, www.bg-da.eu.

MAIN ACTIVITIES/OUTPUTS:
Building and delivering a training path aimed at creation and recognition of a new professional profile: Sustainable conversion project consultant. Production of 3 innovative intellectual outputs:
– COMPASS Pilot Training course and Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Sustainable conversion project consultant
– Case Studies (short documentaries) with best practice examples of sustainable conversion from 5 EU countries – to be used as didactic material within the course and as standalone OER for the promotion and sensitization on the project topics.
– Final Methodology Guidelines that explain in detail the methodology developed by project team for the implementation of Interdisciplinary Curriculum.
Thanks to COMPASS broad and targeted dissemination strategy we intended to create awareness throughout EU on the necessity to create CV in response to a changing world, where the sustainability has to be considered in every choice, in our private lives and in the changing labor market.

RESULTS:
– an in-depth Context analysis produced;
– Implementation of innovative learning/teaching methodologies;
– update, renewal and enhancement of partner organizations’ teaching/training offer;
– creation of a new professional profile: Sustainable conversion project consultant;
– increased young unemployed graduates’ and older unemployed professionals’ entrepreneurial competences, their capacity to create and manage entrepreneurial activities and skills, entrepreneurial competences in sustainable conversion sector;
– the development and use of OER in the area of green economy, participatory planning and sustainable conversion.

IMPACT/BENEFITS:
– direct impact on participating organizations and target groups in the period of project implementation;
– long term benefits for all future replicators and participants of the course.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 220214,85 Eur

Project Coordinator

DRUSTVO ZA OBLIKOVANJE ODRZIVOG RAZVOJA & Country: HR

Project Partners

• BALGARSKA AGENTSIYA ZA RAZVITIE
• EUROPANORAT Beratung, Training, Management, Consulting GmbH
• Civitas Foundation for Civil Society – Cluj-Napoca Branch
• Ce.S.F.Or. Centro Studi Formazione Orientamento
• A SUD ECOLOGIA E COOPERAZIONE ONLUS