GREENLAB
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- Eurotraining Educational Organization (GR)
- JOIST Innovation Park (GR)
- International Consulting and Mobility Agency Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada (ES)
- Blue Room Innovation Sl (ES)
- Csi Center For Social Innovation Ltd (CY)
- Grantxpert Consulting Limited (CY)
- Helsinki Business College Oy (FI)
- Crnet Ltd (FI)
- Candide International Bv (BE)
- Syntra Ab (BE)
THE AIM
GREENLAB project employs a micro-credential approach to craft specialised VET learning resources for sustainability management and environmental consulting. Initially, partners will identify common transversal and sector-specific skills crucial for success in the green transition. The active involvement of target groups—business managers, project managers, business consultants, VET providers, and policymakers—ensures that the developed resources address their authentic needs. This analysis guides co-creating a cutting-edge Open Online VET Course utilising micro-credentials. The course will undergo testing with 200 representatives from GREENLAB professional fields across 5 countries. An accompanying impact study will refine it. VET professionals will benefit from creating innovative resources and enriching their learning offerings. International opportunities for knowledge exchange will further enhance their understanding of the micro-credential approach. Engagements with policymakers will raise awareness of current VET and business needs, fostering their commitment to the green transition. Regular promotion will facilitate international innovation transfer, involving 350 key stakeholders in final events. This ensures the long-term exploitation of project results, aligning with GREENLAB’s core aim of cultivating more sustainable mindsets.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
Activity 1: Efficiently Managing and Coordinating Project Operations
Ensure seamless project management and coordination, including financial aspects. Establish a robust planning and monitoring mechanism aligned with the planned budget and timeline to guarantee efficiency.
Activity 2: Identifying Key Green Skills through an Interactive Report
Discover core soft and hard skills in sustainability management and environmental consulting crucial for facilitating the green transition within businesses. Develop an interactive report outlining these key skills to guide future-oriented practices.
Activity 3: Designing and Testing GREENLAB OOC
Strengthen business managers’ and consultants’ green skills and competencies through an Open Online Course (OOC). Integrate micro-credentials to enhance the take-up, validation, and recognition of short learning courses in alignment with the EU’s micro-credentials framework.
Activity 4: Fostering Connections between VET and Business Fields
Promote transnational and multi-stakeholder cooperation among VET providers/trainers, businesses, and policymakers. Facilitate encounters to reform VET curricula for sustainability managers and environmental consultants, supporting the green transition through enhanced skills recognition and transferability.
Activity 5: Enhancing Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Promoting the use and validation of the EU’s micro-credential approach will improve the flexibility, accessibility, and portability of VET curricula. Implement monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to improve and adapt VET offerings to meet evolving needs continually.
Activity 6: Disseminating and Formulating Long-term Sustainability Action Plan
Support innovation transfer across countries, policy sectors, and target groups. Develop a long-term action plan to sustainably exploit project results and facilitate their transfer into diverse contexts and sectors at the national and EU levels.