Our Projects

Remote_WorkEU is a 24-month project aiming to help SMEs adjust and adapt to the new normal, by improving their digital skills and remote working skills. This will be achieved through the development, test and delivery of a set of integrated online digital tools, such as a self- assessment tool to Evaluate the current stage of the digital transformation of SMEs to work remotely, a handbook for adult staff and an online training course, aiming at developing skills to support effective design and digital transformation of SMEs to work remotely.

The overall objective of DEMETRA project is to facilitate the development of agricultural entrepreneurial skills and tools for women in rural areas. In doing so the project aims at recognizing the needs and gaps with regard to women’s education and competences in the area of agricultural entrepreneurship and device the tools that will facilitate their education and overall knowledge. The main project activities include the development of an innovative curriculum for educating women on greener, sustainable models of agricultural entrepreneurship and other entrepreneurial skills, the development of a digital tool for enabling women with limited access to education in order to further pursue their agripreneurial education and a mentoring scheme to provide them with up-to-date knowledge by experts in the field of entrepreneurship, environmental entrepreneurship and agriculture and other successful professionals in the field. The project is funded by the ERASMUS+ programme and will have a total duration of 2 years.

Open Up is a four year-long project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme that aims to bring to the surface and promote underrepresented artists, designers, craftspeople and performers located in seven European cities of the partner organisations. It aims to establish sustainable art practices amongst them, by providing participants with training and knowledge through the project's various actions, including laboratories, workshops, exhibitions and festivals.

On-good is a 24-month project aiming to strengthen the ability of small and medium goods producers in Europe to successfully transform from traditional to effective and online transborder activities (import/export), by building the capacity of Chambers and similar VET institutions to provide digital education support, as well as by developing the digital pedagogical competences of VET educators. The project objectives will be achieved through the development of a Methodological VET handbook with methods for effective digital education and the development of the On-good m-learning training materials for small and medium goods producers. The project is addressed to employees of chambers of commerce, regional development agencies, VET clusters, local authorities and centres for entrepreneurship development, VET trainers and mentors, while at the same time it aims to reach owners and managers of small and medium enterprises involved in the production of goods and employees of sales and export departments in these enterprises. The project is funded by the ERASMUS+ programme.

Based on the EU new Circular Economy Action Plan (2020), in the past decade, millions of tones of European waste has been exported to non-EU countries, often without sufficient consideration of proper waste treatment. In many cases, waste exports result both in negative environmental and health impacts in the countries of destination, and in loss of resources and economic opportunities for the recycling industry in the EU. This approach facilitates the linear model which is exhausting our planet and polluting the environment. Thus, the horizontal priority of the RE-START project is to support students in HEIs in acquiring and developing essential skills and key competences in order to adopt an environmental- friendly approach in their attempt to develop a start-up. This project consists of the transition to a sustainable economic system is an indispensable part of the new EU industrial strategy. RE-START project encourages and guides students in HEIs to develop a circular start-up or transform their business idea into a circular one following the definition of the circular start-ups which characterizes them as business models based on implementing at least one of the Circular Economy (CE) strategies: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover and Regenerate.’’RE-START aims to develop a circular start-up training programme that enhances the entrepreneurial mindset considering circular economy principles and competences of HEIs students, provides them with real-life examples of successful circular entrepreneurs, and encourages them to support and commercialise their circular start-up.

The ArtCRelief project addresses the challenge that the covid-19 pandemic has caused to artists, culture, and creative professionals (ACCPs) in continuing their activities, leading to the necessity to adapt and switch into different business models. The cultivation of entrepreneurial attitude, the upgrade of the role of innovation in business, the orientation towards digital cultural offer and presence on the internet, and the promotion of collaborations could support ACCPs to survive from the pandemic crisis and be prepared for the new era after the pandemic. The ArtCRelief project aims to cultivate the entrepreneurial and business mindset of artists, culture and creative professionals (ACCPs) in order to survive through the covid-19 crisis and be prepared for the new conditions that will follow.

The COVID-19 emergency has severe socio-economic consequences, with deeper effects on weaker targets and structurally more fragile sectors.

​The partnership EASEWE (Entrepreneurial educAtion for Self-Employment of immigrant WomEn) aims to contribute to the restart in the cultural and creative field by encouraging self-entrepreneurship of migrant women in the sector, increasing their employability with tools that strengthen digital and entrepreneurial skills aimed at self-employment and business creation.

The OLMEdu project addresses the challenge of digital transformation in Higher Education (HE), which has been imposed in the last years and especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. This transformation has stressed the need to offer support and training to higher education staff (HES) in acquiring the appropriate ICT knowledge and skills to successfully support e-learning. In Management Education (ME) this process is even more demanding as a set of social and economic studies which is associated with solving problems and decision-making situations. OLMEdu seeks to create an open lab for the up-skilling of Higher Education Staff (HES) in online management education.

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a cross-border exchange programme which gives new or aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running small businesses in other Participating Countries.

The exchange of experience takes place during a stay with the experienced entrepreneur, which helps the new entrepreneur acquire the skills needed to run a small firm. The host benefits from fresh perspectives on his/her business and gets the opportunities to cooperate with foreign partners or learn about new markets.

CHOICE aims to promote and improve STEM education at schools by designing innovative Open Education Resources (OERs) collected in a Massive Open Online Course that will increase the professional competences of teachers equipping them with a STE(A)M approach of teaching, which takes into account the link of STEM subjects to the Arts, creativity and innovation.

INCIRCLE aims to support insular and scarcely inhabited MED areas to meet the increasing environmental challenges caused by tourist activities by promoting the application of circular economy principles in the tourism sector.

CCNET aims to identify job and entrepreneurship relevant competences of women by building of women mutual support networks in Romania, Germany, Portugal and Cyprus.