Exchanging good practices to Change Household Attitudes for a Non-wasteful, Green environment and Energy-consciousness addressing Rural Seniors Erasmus Project

Project Title

Exchanging good practices to Change Household Attitudes for a Non-wasteful, Green environment and Energy-consciousness addressing Rural Seniors

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: Energy and resources; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Environment and climate change

Project Summary

European households have had a steady contribution of approximately 25-27% to the final energy consumption since 1995. Thus, the overall objective of the C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. project is to exchange the good examples on adult education of the project partners through 4 short-term joint staff trainings covering three main topics: energy efficiency (EE), renewable energy sources (RES) and sustainability in HOUSEHOLDS. Although several learning materials are available online in these topics, there are social groups e.g. the rural population or senior citizens, who have little or no chance to gain knowledge in these topics. Accordingly, our main target group is rural households with a special focus on rural seniors. It is important to note that Europe’s population is getting older while 6% of the EU’s silver generation (55+) has no internet access, and 40% of them never used internet. In this project, all partners have considerable experience in adult education in the field of energy and sustainability, and are committed to improve their related knowledge and skills. The best way to accomplish this improvement is to train the staff members of the PPs’ organizations. The outcomes of the project would be the collection of good examples and a recommendation document that serves as a user guide, explaining the ways the adult trainings might be prepared and done for seniors.
The project intends to address both direct and indirect target agents. The direct target group includes the staff of the participating partners but we will try to reach further professionals who would like to complement their skills with a knowledge of this area. The ‘exchange of good examples’ type of project addresses primary the participating organisation. However, the partnership is really committed to disseminate the collection of good examples shared during the project implementation, thus, we intend to reach the indirect target group which consists of households including seniors, especially in the rural areas.
Expected results of C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S.’ project:
-increased knowledge of educators
-increased knowledge at participating partner organisations
-opportunity to adapt the presented good examples
-better cooperation amongst the participating organisations and improved capacity to work and collaborate in a transnational environment
-new opportunity for adult educators to improve their knowledge and competences in the field, and for the stakeholders to educate the households
-potential to create new ideas as follow-up of the project or as new, future opportunities for cooperation based on the project results
The planned activities were built up in order to achieve the idea of increasing the PPs’ knowledge on sustainability, RES and EE in the field of adult education. JSTs are expected to last 3-4 days with optional programmes besides classroom training such as field trip which helps better understanding the topics.
The cooperation of various entities from different countries will strengthen our goal to create a balanced partnership where the knowledge and experience of experts can be shared enabling the partnership to make high-quality adult learning materials in the future, while building bridge amongst the project partners via an international project team.
For enhancing the spread and the adaptation of the project results, project partners will prepare a collection of good examples using the best practices shared during the short-term joint staff trainings of the C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. project implementation which will be completed with a short recommendation on how to use the collection in the most effective way.
The partners are committed to disseminate the project results during and even after the project closure. The outcomes will be available on the partners’ websites, thus, it can be used for future projects and for further educational purposes.
Duration: 18 months
Partnership:
CAM (HU) is the lead applicant of C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. CAM, as a company specialized in education and development of professional and awareness-raising materials on energy related issues, has great experiences in the field of EE, RES, sustainability, climate change, VET and adult education, and in international co-operation covering management.
PiM is a Malta-based SME. As a multidisciplinary research organisation, it believes in the power of human and technology-centered approaches. Its aim is to promote RES, EE and the intelligent use or reduction of energy requirements in Europe through partnerships, awareness-raising, innovation and strategic actions.
EM (IT) is a consulting and training company based in Italy. Its mission is to improve the competitiveness of the European society, through business development, training and creation of transnational partnerships.
BSC (SI) is a regional development agency which encourages the development of Grojenska region levels representing 18 municipalities. BSC has several trainings and link to citizens due to its network.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 46310 Eur

Project Coordinator

CAM Consulting Szolgaltato Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag & Country: HU

Project Partners

• BSC, POSLOVNO PODPORNI CENTER, DOO
• EUROCREA MERCHANT SRL
• PROJECTS IN MOTION LIMITED