Smart Education for Corporate Sustainability Reporting (SECuRe) is an ERASMUS+ project that aims to create a new vocational education course and a corresponding professional skill or competency profile, in line with ECVET, that will enable professional staff in a private and/or a public body and VET teachers, to become a certified SECuRe managers (or specialized trainer), able to either shape or establish a complete department focusing on sustainability strategy, reporting and related activities.

The project will focus on developing knowledge, competences and strengthen key skills contributing to SECuRe education and promote open, innovative practices in the digital age, efficient use of Information and Communication Technologies in education, improving their teaching capacity through a creativity training program.

Project objectives:

• Develop partnerships amongst educators, businesses and stakeholders with the purpose of supporting VET learners in acquiring, developing skills and key competences in sustainability, CSR or financial data, SDGs reporting and foster employability.
• Introduce open education and innovative digital practices, make education available for all and facilitate new learning methods, by development of a new e-learning platform developed to assist the integration of sustainability issues through company’s activities and manpower.
• Facilitation of the recognition and validation of competences for the SECuRe manager job, covering the needs of companies, by the creation of an innovative VET course including gamification aspects.
• Implement or testing during short term trainings and demo trainings the learning content and learning materials developed.

The project is implemented by five PREPARE members including ATMOTERM (co-ordinator), ENVIROS, National Sustainable Consumption and Production Centre Romania, PROSPEKTIKER and University of Maribor.

Project website: https://csr-secure.eu/

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/secure-project-098386266/

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Transforming consumption-production systems

toward just and sustainable futures

This joint 5th SCORAI, 21st ERSCP, and Wageningen University conference will be held at

Wageningen University in the Netherlands on July 5-8, 2023. This inter- and trans-disciplinary conference will provide a crucial opportunity to discuss recent advancements in sustainable consumption and production (SCP). It will provide a platform for building and enhancing connections between research, practice, and policy to increase understanding and action of how to move transformations to SCP forward.

Session proposals and individual abstracts can be submitted at the conference website at: https://www.scp-conference-2023.com/web.

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The StadtLABOR in Graz now investigates as a service to the Austrian “Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology” European approaches and business systems to make repair activities more professional and more economic. The StadtLABOR team carries out numerous interviews with PREPARE members and friends in Europe in order to investigate the lates state of the art.

Inputs from people interested in the same subject are welcomed. Please contact
Stephanie.Wohlgemuth at StadtLABORGraz.at

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The PREPARE Network consists of people engaged in Sustainable Consumption and Production. We come from various institutions, like universities, innovation-oriented SMEs and administration.

Our main goal is the inform and engage each other about new research and innovation possibilities. We jointly apply to various international calls, like h2020, Interreg and Erasmus+.

The PREPARE network is also engaged in the organization of the European Roundtables on Sustainable Consumption and Production https://www.erscp.eu/.

The PEPARE-Network is substantially supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology, Section III 3 Energy und Environmental Technologies. This department is presently managed by Mr. Volker Schaffler.

The contact person is Mr. Hannes Bauer: hannes.bauer at BMK.at

We thank the Ministry for the ongoing support

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