ERASMUS+ “TRAINING AND RESOURCES TO ENABLE A GREEN ERA – TREE PROJECT” – KICK OFF MEETING IN SPAIN
On 2 and 3 November, the first transnational meeting was held in Cadiz (Spain).
During the first day of work, the team discussed the TREE Project’s aims, specific objectives, targets, activities and expected results, agreeing on the need to better define the area in which transnational green skills will be investigated.
The team consists of AdIM Srl-Mediterranean Information Agency, as promoter and leader as lead partner, and two European partners:
– AiNP -Agencia Internacional Newproject based in Cádiz and Valencia (Spain), which focuses on socio-educational projects and Social Innovation with the development of applications, ideas, concepts, products, services, methodologies and practices that contribute to bringing about changes in society in a collaborative way with the business environment;
– Zeus Consulting IKE based in Palaio Faliro and Thessaloniki (Greece), which offers consultancy services in the fields of technology, information technology, regional development, employment, innovation, environment, management and international collaborations, with particular expertise in the implementation and technical support of European Union programmes and initiatives in these areas.
Rafael Candon and Inna Nikushina of AiNP -Agencia Internacional Newproject, as lead partners in the activity of drafting the Manual of Good Practices, presented a proposal on how to design the Manual, agreeing with the other partners to carry out research, each on its own national territory, on the offer and provision of VET (Vocational Education and Training) training courses that include the acquisition of transversal green skills.
Luciano Mattina from AdIM Srl – Mediterranean Information Agency, with the masterful support of Irene Aprile, main partner in the communication and dissemination activity, illustrated the project’s communication strategy and quality plan.
Zeus Consulting IKE, represented on this occasion by Konstantinos Voukydis, who was mainly involved in the design of the situational scenarios within the framework of the training course to be held in the next phase of the project, contributed to the planning of the preparatory activities for the drafting of the Manual.
The team discussed the three different moments of the Handbook’s implementation:
– Desk research, by the end of January 2024;
– National workshop, February to end of March 2024;
– Interviews, April to May 2024.
After the research, each partner will organise a national online workshop to involve experts, companies or professionals and learn, through subsequent interviews, about the bestpractices already implemented aimed at reducing the environmental impact and improving the green skills of their workers (waste management, reducing water supply, reducing energy consumption and supply).
On the basis of this research activity, a first draft of the Handbook will be drafted and examined during the second transnational meeting to be held in the first half of June in Greece at the premises of the partner Zeus Consulting IKE.
The second day of this first transnational meeting began with a short tour of the lovely city of Cadiz, kindly offered by Rafael Candon, President of AiNP -Agencia Internacional Newproject, at the end of which the team reconvened to listen to a brilliant talk by Antonio J. Albarràn, consultant and environmental educator, sustainability expert and manager of the company ‘Ciconia – Consultores Ambientales’, and focus on specific projects and green skills in the areas of work and training.