<< Objectives >>To develop training capacity in Natural Building to drive sustainable rural development, empowering marginalised groups via a transferrable blended-learning ToT program in Serbia & Greece. To increase employability, provide NB inhabitants with the skills to repair and improve their homes. To begin an initiative to improve NB housing quality and development prospects in the Pčinja region of Serbia via targeted capacity building, that is extendable throughout the Balkans, Europe and beyond.<< Implementation >>Create a ToT to transfer NB training capacity including two intensive practical training implementations for i) unemployed residents of rural Greece providing skills and experience in high-demand NB techniques to increase their employability ii) occupants of problematic earthen dwellings in Pčinja, Serbia to gain skills and knowledge to effectively repair and improve their homes, and motivation to participate in local development actions. Free-access NB training resources and information.<< Results >>BLAT, COB and MAICh all increase specific training capacity. Important training resources developed. 30 rural Greek and Serbian unemployed develop key NB skills. An expanding NB stakeholder network amplifies project results, helps plan future targeted trainings, with NBCaRD results forming the basis for new actions and funding applications addressing wider-ranging initiatives to use NB and NB skills as drivers of sustainable rural and touristic development in Serbia, Greece and throughout Europe

<< Objectives >>Addressing our environmental priority, we aim to develop and directly deliver training in localised Sustainable Food Systems to Food Service Industry Professionals and create and distribute a Sustainable Cookbook and Ingredient-Alternative GuideThe Food Service Industry is the highest employer of non-Irish nationals, resulting in diversity within our target group of FSIPs and ensuring inclusion in our training and dissemination of results. CASK then forms the model for an upscaled EU proposal.<< Implementation >>1. Develop and deliver training, ensuring inclusivity, to 10 FSIPs2. Create a Sustainable Cookbook and Ingredient-Alternative Guide (SCIAG) in a user-friendly digital format3. Distribute the SCIAG directly to a minimum of 50 Food Service outlets and online.4. Create a project website for awareness and results sharing.5. Evaluate CASK for potential Cooperation Partnership upscaling6. Hold 2 transnational F2F meetings to inform training development, assist delivery and build partner capacity<< Results >>1. Inclusive training to 10 diverse FSIPs that facilitates their understanding of the methods and environmental benefits of adopting a localised Sustainable Food System (SFS)2. Creation of the SCIAG digital resource, enhancing digital competencies, and sharing project results3. Social and traditional media publicity engages food outlets and public in project outputs, raising awareness of indigenous crop heritage importance and of Erasmus+4. Basis formed for cooperation partnership development

In general most of the Macedonian farmers are uneducated and use fertilizers and pesticides spontaneously, what often results in inadequate production in means of quality and quantity. On the other hand, according to the EU regulations, the farmers will be required to follow approved production principles or will be facing possibilities to be penalized for applying amounts of fertilizer without performing soil analysis, or for applying certain pesticide which holds no permit to be applied over certain crop. This project aims to produce critical number of experts, OER and on-line tools that will provide service and expertise to professionals (advisors), farmers and rural community in order to increase the quantity and quality of their agricultural production, yet to be aware for the necessity for environmental protection as well. Groups of extension specialists in plant production and plant protection, along with organic farmers will be exposed to the foreign experiences in applying Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Organic farming principles on a farm level. HEI, members of this consortium will join forces in order to create short-term courses on most important IPM and Organic principles The reason for transnational nature is due to the lack of IPM and Organic practice in HEI in Macedonia. Two of the consortium members are registered and accredited in EU member country and conduct training for students and other interested parties on IPM & Organic farming principles in accordance to the EU regulations. Chania will be to be developed soil analysis procedure and fertilization recommendation as well as Organic and IPM production of so called Mediterranean crops and fruits i.e. olives and olive oil production, citruses and peaches growing, hence its role will be to transfer the know-how in growing mentioned crops according to the Organic and IPM principles. On the other hand, the Agrarian University in Plovdiv will be invited to develop know-how transfer through organizing short-term courses and development of learning tools in Organic & IPM management for apples, pears, table grape and grape for wine production. Four short-term courses (7 working days) will be organized. One of them on soil analysis and environmental protection through proper use of fertilizers in agricultural production. The second course will be organized for the IPM/organic principles in growing Mediterranean crops, such are table grape, peaches, olives, citruses and production of olive oil. These will take place at the premises of CIHEAM in Chania, Greece. The remaining short-term courses will take place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The topics that will be covered are to be Organic farming (preparation of mixtures for plant protection) and IPM in growing apple, pears, and table and wine grapes. Also one-day multiplier event will be held, on which presentation of new created IT and OER tools will be presented in front of number of local farmers and other stakeholders. UGD, the project applicant will also develop a project web site to host the OER and will develop and upload on-line calculator for applying fertilizers in accordance to the crop specifics as well as pesticide data-base registered for use in the Republic of Macedonia. The other tree partners are directly or indirectly involved in farming and will be users of the project intellectual outputs and responsible for further dissemination of the results to the farmers as individuals or companies. The expected impact of the project includes: Increased number of competent individuals who will understand the forthcoming implementation of standards which ordinary rural population (farmers included) hardly understand; Creation of tools for sustaining knowledge on different level of expertise. Introduction of IT tools in agriculture and changing the prejudice that computers and IT have no place in agriculture; Common understanding on the direction where Macedonian farmers need to develop in order to stay in production, as the introduction of the 'new' regulations could drive majority of them into bankruptcy; HEI to understand the necessity to include IT tools in learning process and to assist the agriculture sector in larger accessibility to information of various character.

"<< Background >>The EC Green Deal Action Plan has the ambition to make the EU’s economy sustainable, by boosting the efficient use of resources toward a clean, circular economy and by restoring biodiversity and cutting pollution. The green industry helps to solve environmental problems through the development of innovative solutions. In fact, biotechnology itself is one of the most promising sectors to support the sustainability mission (carbon-neutral, digital and circular society). Teaching and promoting sustainable/green practice among biotech stakeholders (education, startups/enterprises, NGOs, etc.) is an important action of the Green Deal Pact. The universities can and should do more, particularly by becoming role models for wider society in their own environmental policies and targets.Four higher education institutions (HEIs) are involved in the partnership. Three of them (UASVM Bucharest-Romania, UP Valencia-Spain and UniPerugia-Italy) are providers of Biotechnological educational programs, and one (RAU, Romania) is a private university providing Business education. The consortium is joined by a Research&Education Center (MAICh, Greece) accredited as a provider for Master level education in the Agri-Food and Business areas. In addition, a Romanian NGO (CBM), oriented toward professional training and consultancy in biotech and environmental topics, is completing the partnership. A weak point detected in the partners’ strategies and action plans was related to their link with incubators/accelerators, science parks and other external green entrepreneurial initiatives. A common conclusion of their assessment was that all partners lack an effective and efficient connection with the entrepreneurial mentorship process, including the green startup side.<< Objectives >>The main scope of the proposal is to develop an innovative educational framework for Biotech & Economics graduates from Romanian, Spanish, Italian and Greek partners toward a Biotech Green Entrepreneurial pathway, able to support the Biotech sector to solve environmental and climate change problems.The Specific Objectives are as follows: #SO1: To deliver innovative educational resources (new module course, training materials, mentoring guide, teaching/learning digital portal) for Master and PhD students in Biotech & Economics covering the topic of Biotech Green start-ups/enterprises. #SO2: To develop specific knowledge and competences in Biotech Green Entrepreneurship by direct training of 55 teachers/tutors and 25 Master and PhD students from the Biotech & Economics areas. # SO3: Strengthen the integration of project’s partners into national and European Biotech Green Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.<< Implementation >>For the objectives' achievement transversal/continuous activities will be implemented, as well as dedicated/specific activities.In the TRANSVERSAL/CONTINUOUS ACTIVITIES will be taken into account: (A1) Project Management, (A2) Visibility and Dissemination and (A3) Quality assurance (Monitoring and Evaluation).Specific activities:#Four transnational project meetings during 24 months of implementation completed with virtual meetings and communications.#R1-R4 (Innovative Results). Four results are proposed to be developed during the project implementation and are targeting HE students, professors and mentors. R1 is intended to be a Critical assessment of the teaching and learning practices in Green Biotech Education; R2 envisages the development of a course syllabus in “Biotech Green Entrepreneurship "" to be taught by blended-learning tools to Master and PhD students in Life Sciences/Biotech & Business; R3 is going to be a guide for the mentors involved in the biotech green entrepreneurial mentorship programs delivered for Life Sciences/Biotech &Business students; R4 is a Portal of Biotech Green Entrepreneurial Ecosystem; is a key result for the biotech green networking and entrepreneurial ecosystem development.# Multiplication events. One event will be delivered per partner country, to reach 150 participants in-face and other 150 virtually. Will involve students, professors, tutors in the field of Biotech and economics, as well as biotech business and green NGOs.#Training activities. Three training activities are schedule which will target: (1) A job shadowing activity for professors/trainers/tutors with biotech green mentors (2) A professors training in the topic of Biotech Green Entrepreneurship; (3) A students Summer School in Biotech Green Entrepreneurship to work in multicultural/international teams on green entrepreneurship and green behaviour/practices and to get in touch with green mentors.<< Results >>#Innovative products/results (R): R1 is intended to be a Critical assessment of the teaching and learning practices in Green Biotech Education; R2 envisages the development of a course syllabus in “Biotech Green Entrepreneurship "" to be taught by blended-learning tools to Master and PhD students in Life Sciences/Biotech & Business; R3 The result is going to be a guide for the mentors involved in the biotech green entrepreneurial mentorship programs delivered for Life Sciences/Biotech &Business students; R4 is a Portal of Biotech Green Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Multiplication events (E): 4 multiplication events (1 event/partner country); 4 event agendas developed; minimum 90 in-person and 60 virtual beneficiaries in the multiplication event; 4 innovative products transferred to the beneficiaries; 4 attendance lists; 4 sets of evaluation evaluation’s feedbacks.Trainings (C1-C3): 3 training contents; 3 selection procedures; 30 Biotech and Economics HE professors/tutors trained in green mentors job shadowing; 25 Biotech and Economics HE professors trained in Biotech Green entrepreneurship; 25 Biotech and Economics HE students (Master/PhD) trained in Biotech Green entrepreneurship; 25 diploma supplements completed (with 9 ECTS); 5 international working teams of students (5 students/team); 5 virtually run Biotech Green start-ups; 90 training evaluation feedbacksVisibility/ Dissemination: 1 revised dissemination plan; 6 analysis reports on the dissemination activities (1/partner); 1 dissemination general report; 1 project website; at least 10 other links to the project website; 2000 website visitors; at least one social media on-line account (Facebook, Instagram); at least 5 results’ dissemination articles published in local or national journals; at least 5 presentations in Biotech events (workshops, conferences);Other. #Result of the networking in the Biotech Green Entrepreneurship Portal: 1 Biotech Green Entrepreneurship network developed; database of the Green Biotech relevant stakeholders in partner countries"

SCOBE provides a Toolkit for systematizing the collaboration amongst the world of business and the world of VET; and validating it by the creation of a blended learning programme tailored to the real skills demanded in the renewable energy field. The project directly addresses two European goals: 1. Facing the mismatching amongst educational programmes and skills demanded by the business sector. 2. Fostering the availability of a European workforce properly qualified to meet the job demands associated to renewable energies and the Strategy “Europe 2020”. SCOBE goes a step further and other initiatives, it will not only create a LEARNING PROGRAMME that addresses real needs of businesses and provides specific training on those issues; but also, will achieve the establishment of a CONTINUOUS RELATIONSHIP amongst VET and business worlds, going beyond the project and its partners. The SCOBE TOOLKIT includes: • The ENGAGEMENT BOX: a set of materials and procedures to engage experts of the business world with the creation (or updating) of a new training programme. • The BUSINESS OBSERVATORY, systematizing the identification of training needs according to latest trends in the labour market. • SCOBE GUIDELINES for collaboratively designing and creating training curricula, materials and tools. • THE COLLABORATIONS - STRENGTHENING PLAN, aimed at ensuring long term collaborations amongst VET centres and enterprises. The LEARNING PROGRAMME have been created by validating the SCOBE Toolkit and will include: an online virtual campus; and offline job shadowing activities taking place in Zaragoza, Spain. Project partners have decided to validate the Toolkit in a narrower sector instead of renewable energy in general, focusing in WIND ENERGY; As its expected job creation in EU is the most significant in the field of renewable energies (“Workers wanted: The EU wind energy sector skills gap” - European Wind Energy Technology Platform, 2013). Following the guidelines of the 2011 report “Skills and Occupational Needs in Renewable Energy”, SCOBE will address two TARGET GROUPS: A) New students of specialised courses designed to prepare them for work in renewable energy. B) Adults already working in the renewable energy sector with an interest in filling gaps in their skills or in up-skilling them. SCOBE has been designed with a collaborative approach that goes in line with ERASMUS + Strategic Partnership´s guidelines; at the same time that represents the spirit underpinning the project: bringing closer the business and the educational worlds. SCOBE ´s OPERATIVE GOALS: 1. The development of a novel set of tools for ensuring long term and effective collaborations of VET centres and business: the SCOBE Toolkit. 2. The validation of the SCOBE Toolkit by collaboratively (business – VET) creating and implementing a training programme aimed at Wind Energy. 3. The development and implementation of a blended learning programme, focused on identified training needs on the wind energy field: curricula, learning contents and tools, e-learning platform, job shadowing activities. 4. The involvement of 90 trainees in the programme. SCOBE´s impacts can be summarized as follows: - Facilitating the collaboration of the business world and educational institutions. - Establishing international collaborations amongst technical partners and trainees providers that will set an example that may inspire others (even at different training levels). - Fostering the achievement of European goals (Europe 20-20-20) by promoting the supply of a properly qualified work force for the Renewable Energy sector. - Supporting ICT – based teaching in VET by the creation of a blended learning programme. - Providing a properly qualified workflow in partners´ regions as well as at national level and in other countries speaking one of the project languages. - Providing an up-dated and multilingual VET programme focused on real learning needs in the field of Wind Energy that could be used by any VET institution interested. - Providing a Toolkit for smoothing collaborations amongst VET institutions and enterprises of the renewable energy sector.