Greening the Business: Green Business Management Trainings Erasmus Project

Project Title

Greening the Business: Green Business Management Trainings

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: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Systematic and integral training and tools towards green business management excellence and best practice are among priorities of EU strategy for sustainable growth and jobs which puts innovation and green growth at the heart of its blueprint for competitiveness. The training needs analysis has ensured insight into needed knowledge, skills and attitudes of the target group and the most suitable ways of providing training to them. The challenges of greening their business are particularly acute for entrepreneurs in micro and small firms and their employees who strive to upgrade their social and civic competencies. They tend to have greater problems and also face barriers in accessing affordable training to up-skill and take advantage of finding a job in the green economy.

The achievement of the project aims and objectives contributed to the improvement of the entrepreneurial culture and employee initiative in support to sustainable growth, to the development of green business knowledge and skills and enriched green business training in the EU through:
1. Develop and offer a Tool-kit of innovation methods for greening the business.
2. Planning and testing a green business training package (11 modules) which develops the entrepreneurs’ and employees’ skills to make sense of the future changes in the environment.
3. Develop and support an Internet Platform for Distance Teaching and Learning which provides a learning environment for green business.
4.Contribute to integration of green business training into European curricula. This objective has been achieved via effective and continuous dissemination activities and exploitation and sustainability plans of the project and its outcomes.

The focus of the project is to provide a straightforward, proactive, and hands-on method, to foster environmentally friendly behavior and to add a crucial, and often missing, environmental viewpoint to work life. By adding such environmental perspective through training, entrepreneurs and employees can begin to bring business more in line with the concept of sustainability. For achieving the aims of the project the following instruments have been used: needs analysis survey, focus groups, identification of good practices, learning methodology and curricula development, learning materials and tools elaboration based on the survey results, e-learning platform development, piloting and evaluation of the feasibility of the curriculum, process of consultation with key stakeholders, continuous process of monitoring and revision in terms of ensuring quality, using of various suitable dissemination channels and means for ensuring sustainability and multiplication of the achieved results.

The main innovative elements of the GreenB project are:
• Development of key competences and common educational standards for green business training
• Development of e-based learning modules for entrepreneurs and workers
• Networking of green business trainers
• An area for adult training advance that will offer a starting point for further transfer of practices in a specific VET field.

The target group of entrepreneurs and employees, interested in green business, is essential for implementing green business processes and practical steps to “Go Green”. The key competences and skills and training needs were identified. The second target group includes managers, trainers in educational institutions providing training and education programmes in the field of green business. The implementation of the project was built on needs assessment and created relevant materials and designed the agenda of training. This include experience and best practices of all network partners. The project outcomes enable the educational institutions to offer relevant and high-quality training on green business implementation focusing on several topics: Green building design and green cities, green business decision making, energy management, circular economy, eco-labels, environmental management systems, waste and recycling management, eco-innovation, corporate social responsibility, green marketing, green tenders and supply chain management.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 287486,56 Eur

Project Coordinator

CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE ITALIENNE DE LYON & Country: FR

Project Partners

• VILNIAUS GEDIMINO TECHNIKOS UNIVERSITETAS
• INSTITUTE FOR POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
• TIBER UMBRIA COMETT EDUCATION PROGRAMME
• GOSPODARSKA ZBORNICA SLOVENIJE CENTER ZA POSLOVNO USPOSABLJANJE
• INSTITUT ZA PODGOTOVKA NA SLUJITELIV MEJDUNARODNI ORGANIZACII ZDRUZHENIE