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Upskilling Generation Net-Zero (GenN Z) Erasmus+ 2024 – 2025

Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training (2024-1-EL01-KA210-VET-000257154). Greece National Agency IKY/ Εθνική Μονάδα Συντονισμού Erasmus+

 

Partners:
Project Leader, European Sustainability Academy, Vocational Education, Greece
Entrepreneurship Movement Club (EMC), SME, Slovenia

Objectives:
HORIZONTAL: Environment and fight against climate change
VET: Adapting vocational education and training to labour market needs
VET: Increasing the flexibility of opportunities in vocational education and training

Topics:

  • Overcoming skills mismatch and addressing the needs of the labour market
  • Green skills
  • Work-based learning

Key aims:
The aim of the GenNZ project is to address the clarification of what ‘green skills’ are with a specific focus on roles in the tourism & related hospitality sector.

The overarching objective is to develop a complete, ready to use, ‘green skills’ vocational competencies framework and teaching programme, with assessment & micro-credentials, which is grounded in workplace reality. This is to address the gap between VET green skills development & fast-changing world of work towards net zero

GenNZ Project Activities:
1. Research and scoping study. A survey to identify the status quo and skills matching gap (September – October 2024).
2. Green Skills Focus Groups of experts and practitioners to inform the VET design (November – December 2024).
3. Training module design with workplace learning and evidence based assessment (January – April 2025).
4. Training pilot activation – summer school with access to tourism workplaces (May – June 2025).
5. Post pilot workshops and dissemination in Greece and Slovenia (July- August 2025).
6. Project closing conference and evaluation (September 2025).

Planned GenNZ Outputs:
1. Research and scoping study – a publishable document and policy guide
2. Green skills analysis – Regional/National
3. KSB Competencies framework with a standard for evaluation, assessment, microdredentials.
4. Piloted training module and materials to teach the framework
5. Green skills network and community of practice (with all target groups) through social media outreach and workshops
6. Evaluation report. Recommendations, with KPIs, & roadmap for future VET green skills apprenticeship

View Upskilling Generation Net Zero (GenNZ) ‘Summer School’ 2025

STOP Entrepreneurial Clichés (SEC) Erasmus+ 2018-2020

Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices (2018-1-FR02-KA205-014338)

 

Partners:
Project Leader, Hauts de Garonne Développement, economic development agency, France
CJ Conseil, SME, France
European Sustainability Academy, Vocational Education, Greece
Entrepreneurship Movement Club (EMC), SME, Slovenia

Objective:
To address the youth unemployment rate of twice the average rate, by making young people want to be an entrepreneurs. 40% of young people indicate an interest in entrepreneurship, but only 4% of them actually try it. “To bring Europe back to growth and higher levels of employment, Europe needs more entrepreneurs”.

Key aims:

  • deconstructing social representations of entrepreneurship and success
  • raising awareness and promoting the informal skills of young people in entrepreneurship
  • creating the confidence of young women in the entrepreneurial adventure
  • promoting the integration of entrepreneurship awareness and training modules into initial training
  • learning from European cultural differences on the subject in order to shake up our stereotypes about youth entrepreneurship

 

Download the SEC Educational Resource kit

Download project study

 

Women Innovators in Social Enterprise (WISE) Programme LLP 2013 – 2016

Women Innovators for Social Business in Europe (542193-LLP-1-2013-1-ES-ERASMUS-EQU) with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency

 

Partners:
Project Leader, ESADE Business School, Spain
Emersense SME Austria
European Sustainability Academy, Vocational Education, Greece
Impact Hub Zagreb, Croatia
Croatian Women’s Association, Croatia

Objective:
to elaborate and extend an integral training programme based on cutting-edge methodologies and an experiential pedagogical plan with a user centred perspective and to develop an interactive e-community to allow women with work experience and willing to start-up socially-focussed projects to ideate and plan them as effective social businesses.

Key aims:

  • Contributing to the Social Economy.
  • Supporting Small-Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).
  • Promoting entrepreneurship.
  • Encouraging women as social entrepreneurs.
  • Focussing on entrepreneurship in south and eastern Europe

 

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