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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The aim of CircularStart is to support incubators, trainers and consultants in sustainability and circularity training of start-ups, through the development of an interactive guidance tool supported by eLearning resources, so that start-ups increase their competences to understand, evaluate and improve sustainability and Circular Economy issues related to their Business Models. 

Why this project now? The idea of CircularStart is grounded on the recognition that there is a lack of know-how and training of start-ups and entrepreneurs in the field of sustainability, Circular Economy and their opportunities. On the one hand, mission-driven entrepreneurs are bringing fresh, disruptive, sustainable innovations to market; sustainability-oriented incubators are appearing too. However, this phenomenon is far from mainstream and not methodologically implemented.

Main activities of the project, include the following ones:

• Design of a guidance tool which integrates CE aspects into the development of BMs.
• Elaboration of eLearning resources focused on the integration of sustainability in BMs.
• Use and test of the training materials at expert business coaches’ level and start-up level.
• Establishment of criteria to evaluate the circularity of BMs.

To know more about CircularStart, visit our website www.circularstart.eu and follow us in social media! Twitter / LinkedIn / Facebook

CircularStart is an Erasmus+ Project funded by the European Commission through SEPIE, the Spanish National Agency (Grant Agreement: 2019-1-ES01-KA202-065625).

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The Meeting between 12:00 am – 13:30 pm and was led by the Secretariat. The main topics discussed:

1.            National highlights and COVID 19 stress.

2.            PREPARE Annual Report 2019 – 2020.

3.            Project situation – what is new?

4.            Website updates.

5.            Next Prepare Meeting.

Participants: Sybille Braunegg, David Camocho, Cristina Rocha, Oihana Hernandez, Aida Szilagyi, Peter Glavic, Stig Hirsbak, Thomas Schonfelder, Vladimir , Pavel Rudzika, Vladimir Dobs, Fabbio Iannone.

For more information download and review the documents that are bellow.

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NISP was the world’s first national industrial symbiosis programme.

NISP was originated as three pilot schemes in Scotland, West Midlands and Yorkshire & Humberside in 2003.

One of the reasons for the programme’s overwhelming success is the way in which it was managed and delivered. The programme operated with nationally coordinated operational focus underpinned by a local delivery structure. It is the NISP teams’ knowledge and insight into specific regional agendas on the economy and environment that enabled the programme to have such a positive impact across the UK.

Through the NISP network, NISP identifies mutually profitable transactions between companies so that underused or undervalued resources (including energy, waste, water and logistics) are brought into productive use. NISP participants included micros, small and medium businesses (SMEs) and multinational/corporates from every industry sector. International Synergies has developed proven industrial symbiosis methodology, tools and systems that can be applied at any scale and in any economy based around the world’s first National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP®).

NISP provides a proven blueprint that can be adapted and replicated anywhere in the world. Since 2007 International Synergies has exported its NISP® model to more than 20 countries at a national or regional level through a capacity building model. Additionally, International Synergies has provided strategic industrial symbiosis consultancy and readiness training to over 10 additional countries.

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The aim of CircularStart is to support incubators, trainers and consultants in sustainability and circularity training of start-ups, through the development of an interactive guidance tool supported by eLearning resources, so that start-ups increase their competences to understand, evaluate and improve sustainability and Circular Economy issues related to their Business Models. 

Why this project now? The idea of CircularStart is grounded on the recognition that there is a lack of know-how and training of start-ups and entrepreneurs in the field of sustainability, Circular Economy and their opportunities. On the one hand, mission-driven entrepreneurs are bringing fresh, disruptive, sustainable innovations to market; sustainability-oriented incubators are appearing too. However, this phenomenon is far from mainstream and not methodologically implemented.

Main activities of the project, include the following ones:

• Design of a guidance tool which integrates CE aspects into the development of BMs.
• Elaboration of eLearning resources focused on the integration of sustainability in BMs.
• Use and test of the training materials at expert business coaches’ level and start-up level.
• Establishment of criteria to evaluate the circularity of BMs.

To know more about CircularStart, visit our website www.circularstart.eu (coming soon) and follow us in social media! Twitter / LinkedIn / Facebook

CircularStart is an Erasmus+ Project funded by the European Commission through SEPIE, the Spanish National Agency (Grant Agreement: 2019-1-ES01-KA202-065625).

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The Agenda contained the fallowing:

1. National highlights and COVID 19 stress

2. PREPARE Annual Report 2019 – 2020

3. Project situation

4. Website updates

5. Next Prepare Meeting

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Due to the crisis and pandemic situation the conference will be held online (via Zoom or similar application). The physical presence of authors and participants in Maribor (Slovenia) is not needed.

The main purpose of the conference is to look for connections between human responsibility towards society and ourselves for our shared sustainable future. Such individual responsibility is a prerequisite for social responsibility, without broader environmental and social responsibility there is no survival of mankind or no tool to achieve a sustainable development / future.

The emphasis this time is on the work of the individual, who can make a significant difference in society, and thus his active participation becomes the driving force for global renewal anywhere.

The EU has adopted a number of different strategies for the path out of the crisis, and the most recent one is the European Green Deal. More content on this topic can be found here:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en

https://ec.europa.eu/growth/industry/corporate-social-responsibility_en

We are looking forward to see you online!

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