ENGAGE Erasmus Project

Project Title

ENGAGE

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 addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Gender equality / equal opportunities; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become one of the standard business practices for business, VET and social institutions in our time. While most CSR definitions mostly evolved around the concept that business can and should act in a manner that respects the legitimate goals and demands of all stakeholders, more recently the concept was enhanced to recognize and include social responsibility and sustainability as an integral part of the business model, fitting and tuned to the core business strategy and thus directly and effectively contributing to the long-term success of the enterprise. The ENGAGE project is constructed on the long term success of the business, VET and social institutions. Based on the three CSR fields KOTO (Turkey) and ISQ (Portugal) from business, GOI (Turkey), BEST (Austria), MYCI (Bulgaria) from VET and CREFOB (Romania), FCPIT (Spain) form Social fields came together to developed ENGAGE project. 7 partners developed four important and useful products which are;

1. Benchmarking Compendium Report on CSR Practices
2. Platform for self-assessment on CSR and storage of Open Education Resources
3. ENGAGE Sectorial CSR-kits for employers, managers and stakeholders
4. ENGAGE Integrative Guidelines for boosting CSR

CSR’s implementations are well known by the big companies, big VET institutions and big social organizations, but it is not well known by SMEs, small VET and Social institutions. The ENGAGE project worked on CRR implementations and tried to increase the awareness between these small organizations in partner’s countries. First project revealed the existing CSR implementations and situations of the partner countries via Benchmarking Compendium Report on CSR Practices. The second work is to find out the existing CSR ‘s situations of the organizations, a platform for self-assessment on CSR was developed and tested in partner countries. This tool gives a final report for the users how to start, develop and continue the CSR activities in their organizations. Another important touchstone of the project is the training. Three ENGAGE Sectorial CSR-kits for employers, managers and stakeholders were developed and tested in partner countries. This training kits are the guides for any CSR users. The last stage of the project is to present the whole work to the end users. The ENGAGE Integrative Guidelines for boosting CSR was developed to disseminate the project intellectual outputs between other organizations.

English and Turkish Benchmarking Compendium Report on CSR Practices developed and distributed via project website and published version to the stakeholders.

90 Self assessment tools (15 per parners in 6 partner countries) were tested and a common integrative report was published in ENGAGE web site.

63 internal staff was trained how to use the Self assessment tool and how to train the other CSR users via CSR training kits.

246 external users were trained and informed via multiplier events about the ENGAGE project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 245305,54 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kocaeli Ticaret Odasi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Fundació Cecot Persona i Treball
• BEST INSTITUT FUR BERUFSBEZOGENE WEITERBILDUNG UND PERSONALTRAINING GMBH
• Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Branch Bulgaria
• Centrul de Resurse pentru Educatie si Formare Profesionala
• INSTITUTO DE SOLDADURA E QUALIDADE
• ISTANBUL VALILIGI