The main objective of the project Sustainable Futures for Enterprise Centres (SFEC) is to initiate a replicable model of learning that enables enterprise centre managers, tenant businesses and learners to adopt sustainable and responsible business practices. Focusing on the dimensions of sustainable practice such as: sustainable buildings (NZEB), energy and resource efficiency, sustainable eco-systems and collective action, the SFEC programme will assist the participant cohort in developing practices that will make a transformative contribution to addressing climate challenges.
LATEST NEWS
- Newsletter- Project started
- Newsletter – Compendium Good practices
- Newsletter – Toolkit and Actionplan
- Newsletter – Learning material
PARTNERS
- Omagh Enterprise Company Ltd, Lead Partner, UK
- European E-Learning Institute, Denmark
- Momentum Marketing Services Ltd, Ireland
- National Association of Community Enterprise Centres, Ireland
- INTREEGUE, Netherlands & assisted by BLANKCON
- Asociación Naceional de Centros Europeos de Empresas e Innovación Españoles, Spain
WEBSITE: https://www.enterprisecentres.eu/
The Good practices and Toolkit are published on the site:
PROJECT STATUS: Finalised
PROJECT PERIOD: December 1, 2020 – December 1, 2022
OBJECTIVES
The Primary Objective of SPEC is to initiate a replicable model of learning that enables enterprise centre managers, tenant businesses and learners to adopt sustainable and responsible business practices. Focusing on the dimensions of sustainable practice such as: sustainable buildings (NZEB), energy and resource efficiency, sustainable eco-systems
and collective action, the SFEC programme will assist the participant cohort in developing practices that will make a transformative contribution to addressing climate challenges. Our focus is on the following questions:
- What are the best practices that our participants can replicate in order to carbon footprint, improve their services/supports and future proof their infrastructures?
- How best to guide enterprise centre leaders and tenant SMEs through a strategic climate change process which will bring sustainable practices from learning into concrete actions ?
- What are the mechanisms by which we can transfer those skills to the widest possible enterprise centre + tenant cohort
The transition to a low-carbon economy means a new economic model is necessary, focused on low-carbon growth, resource efficiency and sustainable development. That presents significant transformational challenges for enterprise where sustainable transitions are highly dependent upon technological solutions: industrialisation has catalysed a linear economy in which take-use-dispose culture is accentuated. A transition to a circular, sustainable economy is essential.
MAIN ACTIVITIES
The SFEC project will work to:
1) Identify best practices that enterprise centres can replicate to reduce their carbon footprint, improve their services/supports and future proof their infrastructures (IO1)
2) Guide enterprise centre leaders through strategic sustainability planning which will bring sustainable practices and ideas to fruition via concrete actions (IO2)
3) Empower enterprise centre leaders to become Sustainability Educators and Agents of Change capable of teaching and training SME and start up clients about the principles of sustainability and green business (IO3)
4) Develop a self-learning sustainability and climate-action online course for Enterprise Centres tenants and wider SME’s to enable them to operate in an environmentally and socially responsible manner and align their sustainability goals with those of the enterprise centres where they are based (IO3)
INTREEGUE/BLANKCON and SFEC
INTREEGUE is leading partner of the development of toolkit and action plan and assists and advices the other partner with the development of the other Intellectual outputs.