Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Central Europe (SCR-CE)
(Funding scheme: Erasmus PLUS – Exchange of good practices)
The European Commission believes that CSR is important for the sustainability, competitiveness, and innovation of EU enterprises and the EU economy. It brings benefits for risk management, cost savings, access to capital, customer relationships, and human resource management. It also offers a set of values on which to build a more cohesive society and on which to base the transition to a sustainable economic system.
While CSR has a particularly strong resonance in Western Europe, it took root slowly in Central and Eastern Europe. Just in recent years, CSR became a “hot” topic in CE countries that are increasingly integrating themselves into the global political and economic system.
The key objective of the partnership is to deliver a common model of CV and the structure of a training aimed at CEE companies and their management, to offer a common model better suited with the local requirements and managerial styles.
Project partners:
- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE – France
- MEDNARODNA PODIPLOMSKA SOLA JOZEFA STEFANA – Slovenia
- Associazione AREGAI – Italy
- PROSPEKTIKER INSTITUTO EUROPEO DE PROSPECTIVA Y ESTRATEGIA SA – Spain
- INSTITUT ZA DRUSTVENO ODGOVORNO POSLOVANJE – Croatia
- SZKOLA GLOWNA HANDLOWA W WARSZAWIE – Poland
- MEDNARODNI CENTER ZA PRENOS ZNANJA DOO – Slovenia
Results:
- Cross reference analysis of the good practices found at national and international level
- A guide and a curriculum/training structure for trainers to make sure the professionals performing the sessions are informed and possess the same knowledge on CSR.
- A TRANSNATIONAL TRAINING, held to update partners’ staff on CSR, research methodology and other relevant contents related to sustainability, social responsibility, and efficient resources management.
- A DIGITAL HANDBOOK WITH THE CONTENTS AND MATERIALS to run the local thematic workshops used to guide the partners in having a structured dialogue among relevant local stakeholders and academics, to collect and share data at local level usable for further researches or to support policies development.
- METHOD TO ENGAGE all interested parts in implementing CSR, by offering tips and suggestions on the topics and communication messages and strategy to use based on the main targets in the project (companies, manages, consultants, key stakeholders in CSR topics). In all aspects the toolkit focuses on low-budget scenarios and aims to make it for multiplier as easy as possible to integrate multiplication into their daily activities. This toolkit aims to give guidance and provide available tools for multipliers to implement their activities.
- A FINAL CROSS-REFERENCE REPORT on the needs in terms of managerial and organization competences and skills to run responsible and sustainable business practice and implement CSR polices, based on the discoveries of the local thematic workshops.
InnovatiVET – Erasmus+ project
The Erasmus+ project InovatiVET is about innovation in VET and would like to explore innovation in VET in Europe and create several guidelines (interactive, practical and easy-to-use tips) about the ways to introduce a revolution in a job-oriented VET system.Despite years of massive research effort and numerous development projects the actual practices in education continues as usual.
Previous study from the sector shows that up to 50% and 70% of the teachers expresses that they have not changed their daily practice as a result of participating in development projects (The Vocational Education Lab & Damvad 2012). Even though the need for transformation is massive, in Europe the practice of teaching is always the same.
The way curriculum describes learning is changed and reformed, improving the job relevance of vocational education, BUT it seems that this does NOT guarantee a corresponding didactic development improving the processes in learning. It is however important to develop pedagogics in order to support dual mode education.
Project is based on core elements:
- introduce new models of innovation in VET system, and the only effective way is to move the focus on teachers and educators active in the VET system. They need to develop and change their way of teaching in order to change the student skills and increase drastically the students employability.
- The selected methodologies/approaches are: Inclusive and Disruptive Learning, Work-Based Learning, Creative Problem Solving Methodology and TRIZ, Shared-Learning approaches (Co-working and FabLab).
InnovatiVET is a project funded with support from the European Commission under Erasmus+ Programme – Key action 2 – Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training – Development of Innovation.
Zdrava energija / Healthy Energy
Exposure to risks in Energy Industry sector is very high due to the Nature of the work. Project Healthy Energy enables execution of training for improving safety and health at work, related to the specifics of the sector and through that contributes to improving skills and awareness of employees energy sector as well as to improved health and safety and awareness of the importance of prevention at work outside working hours. under the Law on Safety and Health at Work must Each employer plan, implement and monitor measures for health promotion.
Project HEALTHY ENERGY is, on the basis of a public call for funding for health promotion at the workplace in 2015 and 2016, financially supported by the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia. More about the project
Competence Center Logins
Establishment of the competence center enables qualitative and effective development of human resources in logistics and transport. In this project were as key profiles in the branch determined drivers, schedule clerks, vehicle fleet managers, and forklift operators. Through education, training and good practice exchange between project partners the Logins competence center will enable to raise the level of knowledge, skills and competences in the branch. Project is financed by the Operational Programme for Human Resources Development for 2007-2013. more
Analysis of needs for knowledge, skills and competences in energy industry in Slovenia
There is a series of reasons to implement knowledge management into the companies and into the branches in general. The main one is to optimise the development and the usage of knowledge in the company operating activities. In order to ensure the companies the skills to utilise its competitive advantages it is important to provide suitable and rational knowledge management. The first phase for development of own knowledge base is analysis of needs for knowledge, skills and competences which we carried out on behalf on Energy Industry Chamber of Slovenia. Results are most encouraging and at the same time propose new efforts and activities in this direction.
