WHAT IS GROWING GREEN

Growing green is an Erasmus+ Project, funded by the European Union, that aims to foster green entrepreneurial mindsets based on a circular economy and green capital concepts in vocational education and training. 

It aims at enhancing awareness raising about circular economy and at developing related green entrepreneurship competences, in line with the European strategy on these topics. 

 

The project will reinforce green entrepreneurship competences according to the EntreComp definition of entrepreneurship among VET students. An experiential workplace-based model of teaching green entrepreneurship to VET organisations in order to boost quality and a flow of cooperation between VET institutions and local businesses of different sectors will be created.

The specific objectives of the project are the following:

  1. To introduce a new practical green entrepreneurship model by working on real cases in business and industry;
  1. To deliver new green-oriented entrepreneurship training materials for teachers and students to support work-based learning about green entrepreneurship;
  1. To equip VET teachers with skills for mentoring and guiding students towards green entrepreneurship;
  1. To support cooperation between VET institutions offering courses in different economic sectors and local businesseswith the aim of offering more experience for developing green-oriented entrepreneurial competencies of VET students; –
  1. To strengthen cooperation between VET and businesses for creative solutions and product development by joint work between students, teachers and local businesses. Moreover, by cooperating at the transnational level, the consortium is expected to get the following benefits:
  1. Access to a bigger set of knowledge and experiences in different countries about circular economy.
  1. Exchange on methods and contents about the integration of circular economy in the VET curriculum.
  1. Different expertise and points of view, which will enrich the design and development of materials and project outcomes, also through co-creation of PRs.
  1. Creation of a network of partners interested in the topics of circular economy and sustainability, which can lead to new potential projects/activities in the future.
  1. Increased work satisfaction of the staff involved in the project by working with peers and by visiting schools and companies from different countries, which is always an enriching and open mind-experience.

THE RESULTS

The project will have several expected results that will be open to be used by all european citizens. Main results will be:

  • The Growing Green Entrepreneur: a teachers Manual, a sustainable collection of materials, tools, activities and process roadmap for the Growing Green experiential approach.
  • The Growing Green Gamification: a practical game built up combining training methodologies with green concepts. 
  • The Growing Green Framework: a set of tools and instruments to evaluate, assess key results of the pilot activities and integrate the Growing Green approach into the educational offer of VET schools.
  • The Growing Green Compendium of prototypes collecting projects and prototypes prepared by VET students participating in the pilot activities.

 

THE PARTNERS

Growing green is carried out by a European partnership with organisations from Denmark, Italy, Slovenia and Spain that will cooperate intensively to achieve high quality results, providing a framework for vocational education organisations to implement green circular economy and entrepreneurship with relevant training models and materials to provide teachers and students with comprehensive knowledge about the concepts of circular economy and green entrepreneurship. You can find more information about them in the parners section, in the header of this site.