INnovation Capacity building foR EnhAncing Sustainable growth and Employability Erasmus Project

Project Title

INnovation Capacity building foR EnhAncing Sustainable growth and Employability

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: Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

INCREASE project is a direct response to reported employment risk of automation and SME problems in providing innovation and ensuring sustainability of innovation strategy. EU low-R&D intensive companies struggle with skilled workers availability, organisational problems and lack of innovation expertise. While ensuring staff engagement across functions is crucial for SME innovation, non-R&D SME staff presents significant lack of innovation understanding and skills. From the other side tech-innovation brought widespread risk of automation which is no longer limited to manufacturing and agricultural industries, but is accelerating fast across industries, especially in service, craft and other low-tech sectors.

To support low-skilled adults in the risk of automation in increasing their employability and low-R&D intensive SME in increasing their innovative capacity the project aims at:

-providing non-R&D employees with understanding how to contribute to innovation and relevant innovation skills,
-building awareness of non-R&D employees of importance of innovation and related skills for their professional growth and employability,
-developing innovative and entrepreneurial mindset among non-R&D staff,
-building awareness of SME managers of importance of building innovation capacities among non-R&D staff and how to integrate them in innovation processes.

The project complies with the priorities for 2019 of Erasmus+ program in that it promotes inclusion, and equality in the fields of training as well as shared values and equality of chances equality and social inclusion.
To realize the objectives INCREASE will provide open user oriented skills development path in innovation area that will allow in time and cost effective way develop innovation skills among low skilled adults and increase capacity of SME for inclusive innovation. It specifically aims at upskilling low-skilled adults from non-R&D SME staff in high risk of automation. By development, test and delivery of targeted methodology and integrated online digital tools, it aims specifically at increasing the supply of high quality skills development programs in innovation area that will suit individual needs of low skilled Europeans, facilitate their access to upskilling pathways in innovation area and increase the human resources poll with innovation capacities. In that way the project is expected to provide a solution for increasing employability of low-skilled adults in automation risk. Further, by supporting SME in overcoming innovation barriers it is expected to contribute to increasing innovativeness and competitiveness of SME.

To provide high quality comprehensive solution the partnership includes broad international spectrum of partners with diversified profile and expertise.
– University “Ştefan cel Mare” of Suceava (Romania)
– E&D Knowledge Consulting Lda. (Portugal)
– Asociación Valencia Inno Hub (Spain)
– Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT (Finland)
– Warp Innovation (Austria)
– Danmar Computers zoo (Poland)
– Asociatia de Dezvoltare Economico-Sociala (Romania).

Project Website

https://increase.erasmus.site/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 280203 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITATEA STEFAN CEL MARE DIN SUCEAVA & Country: RO

Project Partners

• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• E&D KNOWLEDGE CONSULTING, LDA
• LAPPEENRANNAN-LAHDEN TEKNILLINEN YLIOPISTO LUT
• Asociación Valencia Inno Hub
• Asociatia de Dezvoltare Economico-Sociala
• WARP INNOVATION OG