<< Objectives >>The objective of the project is to build a community of practice and knowledge exchange around the evaluation of social utility and social impact between 7 European networks in order to allow the members of these networks (social entrepreneurs, associative managers, SSE activity project coaches, SSE trainers) to strengthen their capacities and skills to report on the social utility and impact of the actions they carry out or support.<< Implementation >>- A project management activity - Three meeting activities organised as two-day collective work seminars between partners on social utility/social impact (common culture, skills profiles, training pre-programme) - A communication, dissemination and evaluation activity which includes the dissemination of a brochure and the implementation of a European event to raise awareness on social utility/social impact<< Results >>Successful dissemination of the outputs towards the project targets but also within the Erasmus community, notably through the EPALE platform An improvement of our capacity to educate SSE coaches and educators to improve their skills to transmit these methods and approaches to adults in charge of demonstrating the social added value of SSE enterprisesBuilding a long-term transnational cooperation dynamic

<< Background >>As announced in the Green Deal launched by the European Commission, every economical sector must commit to the ecological and solidarity transition. The associative actors are important components of the European Union’s social and economic tissue and would represent more than 9 million workers in 2010 (see: https://www.ess-europe.eu/sites/default/files/qe-30-12-790-fr-c.pdf). As a consequence, those actors are able to answer the social inclusion requirement formulated in the Green Deal by supporting their public in the reinforcement of their autonomy and of the cooperation which enables them to deal collectively with the effects of climate change. However, in order to be effective with the public, leaders and teams must carry the challenges and opportunities to act and be equipped to share them with their ecosystem.The consortium’s five partner associations are all support structures for small and average associations, resources centres for associations and/or eco-pedagogical tools, training organisations and/or structures that have a dissemination role with the target audience. They all see an increasing request for information and tools to support the ecological transition from their staff, users, public and/or associative partners.In 2018, the APES, a partner association, carried out a consultation in the Hauts-de-France region to which 83 associations, essentially of small and medium size, answered (see: http://apes-hdf.org/page-24-237-0.html#menu). This survey has revealed in particular that 86% of the associations wished to take further account of the environmental impact of their activities. Several obstacles to change in practices has been identified:- Nearly 50% feel that they lack of knowledge about methods- About a third express a lack of human and/or financial resources or skills to act and a lack of support.In order to facilitate action, the actors particularly express the following needs. Between 40 and 50% wished to:- take part in exchanges of experience- benefit from support for the development of territorial projects in cooperation with other actors- participate in collective intelligence sessions- be informed, meet actors and expertsA third of the associations wished to:- be trained- meet institutional partners- benefit from support for the implementation of environmental practicesCEPS has identified similar needs especially with small and average socio-cultural associations of its territory which took part in the project “From the socio-cultural associations, we act against climate change” (http://www.ajsosteniblebcn.cat/guia_fem_pinya_cc_126190.pdf). The purpose of this 12-month project (directed by Barcelona City Council in collaboration with Trànsit Projectes, from which CEPS comes from) was to “promote the socio-cultural actors’ role as key actors of the movement, involve them in promoting the individual and collective action for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This project allowed to identify needs (gap between awareness of eco-responsible practices such as recycling, optimal use of electricity and water, etc. and difficulties to implement them) and to initiate changes in eco-responsible practices through training and the creation of a guide within these structures. The conclusion is that further actions are needed to support local action by providing essential awareness-raising and methodological tools to small associations.<< Objectives >>To answer those needs, the Ecological Transition and Sustainable Development of Non-Profit Organisations project (TEDDA) proposes the creation of tools to raise awareness and improve the associative actors’ skills to sustainably engage their ecological transition in the functioning and the activities of their organisation on the issues of resource saving, reduction of energy consumption and waste, choice of purchasing policies, food and sustainable mobility...Our target audience includes a diversity of small and medium organisations (between 0 and 25 employees) which have a local anchorage in which we identify 3 groups of target associations :- networks leaders in charge of supporting and training small and average associations,- associations whose awareness-raising and/or training activities with other small and average associations and/or citizens, elected officials… are linked to the ecological transition thematic,- popular education associations in many areas and especially insertion of vulnerable people through work, social and artistic life. It will involve for example leaders, animators, social centres referents who act as socio-professional guides for a fragile public.Within these associations, we distinguish two sub-groups of target audiences : the association leaders (director and elected volunteers) and the employees and field volunteers that we want to involve in the project so that everyone can have resources corresponding to the possible structural and individual action level.These associations will then become a vector of the message in favour of the respect of the environment towards their users, who are the project’s final audience. Indeed, they will benefit from the implementation of inspiring eco-responsible practices inside the structures they frequent and from the better support of their eco-citizen initiatives thanks to the skills development of the associative actors on the reduction of energy consumption and waste issues as well as responsible purchasing policies.The operational objectives of the TEDDA project are the following ones:- Raise awareness and acculturate the target associations’ staff into the environmental challenges and the ecological emergency;- Promote permanent changes for eco-responsible practices in the associations (resource saving, reduction of energy consumption and waste, choices of purchasing policies, sustainable food and mobility…);- Improve the participants’ skills in mobilizing their audience and partners in awareness-raising activities and eco-citizen practices;- Promote the European actions in favour of the ecological transition.<< Implementation >>From this perspective, the activities of the TEDDA project will consist in:- IO 1: creating an inspiring role models gallery allowing to give visibility, value and demystify the ecological transition of associations by promoting structures which developed concrete and innovative proposals;- IO 2: creating educational and playful games about ecological transition in associations allowing to raise awareness, inform and obtain a shared consciousness and knowledge level on climate change and ecological emergency and create a desire to act;- IO 3: formalising a methodological guide for leaders, employees and volunteers allowing an auto diagnostic and the implementation of concrete and adapted changes for a successful ecological transition;- IO 4: creating a white paper allowing to raise awareness, arouse interest, appropriate a common sight and language by the whole actors and decision-makers of the associative sector and the social economy and establish political guidelines.- Organising five public events to raise awareness among a wider audience (associations, public institutions and citizens) about our tools and the need to act in favour of the ecological transition.Those innovative educational resources will be built thanks to the partners’ complementary expertise (they all have already experimented in their respective territories the implementation of actions about ecological transition through the design, animation or follow-up of trainings and support measures and/or participation in projects), and the involvement of associations from different countries of the partnership. The importance of local, national and european networks developed by each partner will guarantee the participation, the dissemination, the visibility and the success of the project and the IOs.The direct target groups will be involved all along the project in the construction or testing phases of the productions, so that they internalize the ideas, use the IOs and share it with their networks even after the end of the project. Thus, it is planned to associate 188 associative staff members (elected and field volunteers, managers, and employees) including 16 persons from the consortium and 172 from associations operating in various sectors (social and professional insertion through culture, environmental and citizenship education, sports, etc…) as social centres, sports clubs, youth community centres, training organisations... It is also planned to mobilize a total of 185 external participants during 5 public events. Those associative actors come from the local, regional, national and european networks of associations of the consortium. They will then be able to use the IOs and highlight the TEDDA project tools by sharing it with their networks.The project partners will be vigilant in reducing as much as possible the carbon cost of their activities of IO production, project management, communication and events organised without compromising the quality and the possibility of dissemination.<< Results >>In order to answer the previously identified and enounced needs, the TEDDA project wants to reach several results. Our actions will end up with a combination of tangible (tools) and intangible (change of mind) results.The tangible results are:- Production of useful educational mediums for involved actors to acculturate to climate change (IO 2, 3 and 4: serious game, methodological guide and white paper)- Production of tools promoting changes in practices (IO 1: inspiring role models tool worksheets presenting concrete examples of key success factors of sustainable approaches in associations and IO 4: white paper)- Production of a support tool for changes in practices (IO 3: formalisation of a methodological guide for the implementation of eco-responsible practices in associations)- Production of a tool which encourages associations and stakeholders to actively commit themselves to the ecological emergency (IO 4: whitepaper: digital kit containing a decalogue and video messages in favour of the simplicity of the approach and the savings thanks to ecological practices).The intangible results are:- Awareness and/or improvement of knowledge on climate change challenges and levers for action for target audiencesAbility to estimate the carbon footprint of the organisation’s activity and to measure the collective efforts to be made within the association to reduce it.- Skills development for associative staffs to engage sustainable changes in their professional activities (knowledge of good practices and access to a methodology)- Promote the project among the political decision-makers at local, regional, national and European level through the dissemination events and the white paper- An indirect result will be to favour the awareness and the knowledge of the general public (citizens) as the associations will be carriers of the transition and will be able to inform and support their users in the eco-responsible approachesThe co-building of these tools will guarantee the creation of a replicable and transferable project throughout the European Union. Freely available online in French, Spanish and English, our productions will be usable everywhere in Europe. In order to guarantee the widest dissemination of our productions and thus multiply the impact of the TEDDA project in the EU, a coordinated communication plan mobilizing various dissemination channels will be set up.The TEDDA project will have the impact of massifying and promoting the actions in favour of the ecological transition through a mobilisation effort and collective actions. The consortium intends to impulse the partnership dynamics and encourage the synergy of the living forces of their territories in order to reduce the environmental impacts of the associative structures.In the long run, the associations will be aware of their environmental impact and will have changed their practices in order to minimise it. They will also have been able to internalize and transmit the TEDDA project tools in their networks and their audiences.