Cultural and creative industries (CCIs) are at the heart of the creative economy: represent a 6.8% of GDP in Europe and 6.5% of EU workforce, approximately 14.0 million. The Ecodesign Working Plan 2016-2019 contributes to the Commission's new initiative on the Circular Economy, which promotes a transition towards a more circular economy in the EU. Product design is a key aspect in this respect and in future, Ecodesign should make a much more significant contribution to the circular economy (Ecodesign Working Plan 2016-2019.EC). CCIs, like all other industries, are dependent on the material world. Reuse, repurposing, recycling or upcycling are all examples of a broad and unstoppable movement which is reevaluating and maximising resource value through Ecodesign. At the 2nd Green Skills Forum 2014, OECD LEED-Cedefop presented some key challenges for meeting skill needs for green jobs, evidencing that there is an urgent need to support green job skills development strategies in order to prevent the emergence skills bottlenecks in our countries, supporting VET acquisition of Ecodesign and a smooth transition from brown to green jobs.There is also strong evidence that Work-Based Learning (WBL) helps to equip young people with the skills that can improve their employability and ease the transition from school to work. Nevertheless, existing analysis and policy papers in the countries of the project (France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Malta, Spain and UK) evidence that there is still too much distance between the educational environment and the workplace in these countries. Ecodesign4EU project aims to address these challenges designing a new European ECVET Curriculum of reference on Ecodesign for sustainable CCIs, promoting innovative WBL methods and pedagogies addressed to Initial and Continuous VET students, target beneficiaries of the project, in order to acquire and apply Ecodesign principles to CCIs, contributing to lead the transition to a Circular Economy in these sectors. The project will apply also successful and innovative VET methods and tools in Ecodesign principles applied to CCIs, previously tested by the partners.8 European VET experts and providers, companies and intermediary bodies of the CCIs from 7 countries (France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Malta, Spain and UK) will work together defining common strategies design and carry out the following Outputs:IO1 - European ECVET Curriculum of reference on Ecodesign for sustainable Creative and Cultural IndustriesIO2 - ECOdesign4EU Virtual Campus. Includes the following Open Educational Resources: (i) an Online Instructional Guide on Digital Competencies for Virtual Learning; (ii) a set of structured Training Modules (iii) Vocational Open Online Courses (VOOC) IO3 - Ecodesign4EU Mobile Assessment App IO4 - Guidelines to foster transparency and recognition of Ecodesign for sustainable CCIsTarget users and beneficiaries are: (i) VET teachers, trainers and mentors (ii) Initial and Continuous VET students. Ecodesign4EU will involve directly 109 VET and in company teachers and trainers (32 partners staff /42 experts involved / 35 target users in pilots), 175 I-VET and C-VET students (in pilots) and 535 stakeholders. At local, regional, national and European level the project will reach a minimum audience of 1000 recipients through the project dissemination activities.The project will use European frameworks of reference, such as EQF and ECVET, to promote new learning pathways and boost transparency, recognition and mobility in the CCIs sectors in Europe. Key sectorial and VET associated partners and stakeholders of the CCIs, the VET sector and the Green Economy involved in the project will support the dissemination of the project products and contribute to mainstream the final results. The project will have a direct positive impact in: (i) Partner organizations and entities involved in the project activities. They will improve their training methods and tools; the teaching skills and competencies (including digital skills) of their trainers and teachers; the quality and relevance of their VET courses and WBL programmes.(ii) I-VET and C-VET students. They will improve their Ecodesign through better WBL programmes, opening new opportunities for training, job and mobility.(iii) CCIs sectors. They will count with new training instruments to improve the competitiveness of the sector and supporting its transition towards more circular business models.The envisaged long term impact of the project will be a strengthening of the European VET systems and a more sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe.

"<< Background >>The need to improve the entrepreneurial and innovative capabilities of citizens has been underlined in three of the flagship initiatives in the EU strategy for jobs and sustainable growth: ""Innovation Union"", ""Youth on the Move"" and ""An agenda for new skills and jobs"". Indeed, one of the objective of the new Europe strategy is to “make an efficient European venture capital market a reality, facilitating direct business access to markets and exploring incentives for private sector funds that make financing available for start-up companies, and for innovative SMEs”.BAKE will develop an innovative training programme with a strong work-based learning component that will involve adults employed in the start-up or growth phase companies in on-the-job and online training, focusing on reducing the economic, relational and skills gap between different income groups and collectives at risk of exclusion. This includes an EQS and training for entrepreneurs about Business Angel Investment that to be replicated in all member states. It also practical cases, a PITCH guide and several tools that will bring together the knowledge gap and build up trustful relationships. Moreover, during these RLTs conflicts may arise due to different perceptions of the venture, expectations, and contractual agreements (Yitshaki, 2008). This leads to tensions, misunderstandings and unbalanced control and power between entrepreneurs and BA’s that affects venture performance (Higashide & Birley, 2002), venture’s innovativeness, and confidence in partner co-operation. A toolkit for both profiles will be developed with fair and balanced guidelines, training materials, vocabulary uses and practical cases. In this way, it means an improvement of the attractiveness of VET since entrepreneurs will be empowered and they will take advantage of their negotiation position.The end users will be involved in cutting-edge and forward looking training courses, tailored to meet the needs of the addressed sector. It will improve the employability of the workers and will provide VET providers with updated training programmes and materials (online and offline) that can be readapted to other sectors. VET participants and partners’ trainers will be equipped with the most recent tools on raising funding practices, developed by technology and innovation driven partners that are acquainted with the sector and business incubation, which puts the training at the forefront of the non-formal education provided by the partners. The project will enhance access to high quality entrepreneur fund raising training materials for free to participants with fewer opportunities. The project will develop innovative training materials that the market don’t offer, most of the existing courses regarding funding raising are focus just on investor and most of the entrepreneurs cannot achieve them since they are really expensive and they are provided by private business schools. In addition, these collectives are particularly focus on social entrepreneurship as they are especially sensitive to providing a solution to these social challenges. They are aware of the problems that they want to focus their project.VET providers, BA and business innovation experts will cooperate closely to develop and pilot the training programme in each project country and give the opportunity to both learners and trainers to apply raising funding skills directly at work and in real work life situation, thus enhancing the learning experience and improve the management of their financial and human resources.<< Objectives >>The project will develop training materials targeted towards entrepreneurs and trainers, based on how to successfully conduct business with angel investors, in terms of harbouring a successful relationship, outlining expectations, creating contracts involving exit warranties. This includes an EQS and training for entrepreneurs about Business Angel Investment that to be replicated in all member states. It also practical cases, a PITCH guide and several tools that will bring together the knowledge gap and build up trustful relationships.This consortium provide to the project a global and complete view of the different realities and allow us be able to provide a tailored material enabling it to fit in each sector or collective for each partner country. At the same time, it will enable us to ensure that the needs and expectations of different stakeholders, who work with different regional contexts and specificities, are integrated. Moreover, project partners will be in charge of providing information about partners, the project objectives, outputs and activities to their net of collaborators and partners at European level.Furthermore, all the partners have several networks of associated partner that make possible to reach exponentially final user and stakeholder through mailing lists, social media, website and phone calls. Thereby, the likely that they will incorporate the training programmes and deliverables for their daily use and entrepreneurs will have accessibility to this content increases. BAKE will enable fair and successful communication between the entrepreneurs and the investors through several training tools and guides that will teach entrepreneurs the knowledge required to allow efficient communication.It combines the specific knowledge, skills and competences of a diverse partners’ consortium in order to build an online training course and curricula that fits users’ needs with complete view mixing the experience and resources from both VET and BAs. EU problem is addressed with this project, thus we will provide a solution developed on a European level.In addition, the methodology implemented will rely on participative approach and collaboration among different stakeholders as guaranty for qualitative VET. In this way, it means an improvement of the attractiveness of VET since entrepreneurs will be empowered and they will take advantage of their negotiation position.Objective: to increase knowledge of VET students, entrepreneurs, start-ups and the training sector of financing schemes to make sure the acquisition of knowledge and skillsSpecific objectives:Increase knowledge of student, learners, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and future business ideas on the terms used under investment schemes so to equalise the language between the entrepreneurs and investorsEmpower entrepreneurs to successfully acquire business angel investmentsUpskill professionals with start-up businesses by improving language skills and capacities to enhance and develop their business languageStrengthening entrepreneur transversal key competences in initial and continuing VET Develop training materials and VET centres to include these materials in their syllabusIncrease capacity and professionalism of VET student and centers to work at EU/international level when an entrepreneur wants to raise funds abroad<< Implementation >>IO1 the partnership will participate in several working groups with Investors (Business Angels), Business, Entrepreneurs, Investment, Student, VET teachers and VET centres, and Legal Experts to develop a toolkit for entrepreneurs and financial actors to apply in fair and balance investment relationships. By providing knowledge, practice and guidance, the IO aims at win-win models of investment relationships. Our goal is empower VET student on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs but also new possible investors by showing them key aspects of fair and balanced venture relationships and raise awareness of expectations and possible challenges stakeholders may face so to make this collaborations possible. Conflicts may arise due to different perceptions of the venture, expectations, and contractual agreements. Further materials on the toolkit are a clear a set of steps, recommendations and guidance will be drafted, with instructions for a development of a code of conduct between both actors and vocabulary or expressions for potential students/entrepreneurs for them to have less fear and more confidence when doing businessIO2, the definition, development and validation of a Training Course on alternative financing schemes for entrepreneurs is at the heart of the project. It is within the framework of these activities that we will develop the Common European Qualification Framework (EQF) for Successful Entrepreneurs in Investment processes. The creation of this framework will allow entrepreneurs and business to better understand how to successfully conduct business with angel investors, in terms of harbouring a successful relationship, outlining expectations, creating contracts involving exit warranties, among others. The creation of the training modules will make possible to improve entrepreneurship students of VET towards investors; improve their knowledge about investment processes; suggest aspects to improve the success of their already established relationships and higher chances of employability and qualification of the adult and young entrepreneurs. This includes 5 modules as described in the IOs section. IO3 will develop a Learning Management System (LMS) and a knowledge sharing platform. This activity is crucial so that on one hand we can test and survey the opinions of different stakeholders on this subject (Investors; Business Angels; Legal Experts, Business, Entrepreneurs; Training Centres, VET Centres) and also to ensure a wide dissemination of the content of the modules created as part of IO3 activities, thus allowing a wider visibility and awareness of the importance of investors in the upgrade and start-up of companies and the benefits of participating in win-win investment relations. Tools to be used: Quality Plan. Aim of accompanying the project implementation to monitor and assess the quality of the results and outcomes. The Quality Management Plan is the first step of the strategy to monitor and assess the quality of all produced results, as it defines its tools and instruments.Quality Control Board (QCB). It is composed by 4 members, responsible for monitoring and evaluating the project according to the Quality Plan. This shall enable verification of compliance of measures with a schedule, identification of possible problems and threats. The QCB’s role is to assess the overall quality of the work performed and the results achieved. Risk Monitoring Questionnaires will be sent before each Project Meeting (21). Internal Evaluation. It will be applied on an on-going basis amongst partners. A summary will be made at the end of the project. Main aspects to monitor: project’s objectives, the project’s results, the project’s approach and the project’s impact. A monitoring questionnaire (28) will be prepared by FEH before the second meeting and in all of them.External evaluation. Questionnaires (80) developed by FEH for events and activities of the project (Investors, Entrepreneurs, VET centrs BA)<< Results >>The implementation of the BAKE project will boost entrepreneur capabilities and provide guidance for angel investors. The project is expected to provide entrepreneurs with the relevant Knowledge, Skills, Competences and language skills to successfully conduct business with angel investors in a competent manor. By training and introducing the entrepreneurs to the BA language they will be better prepared for future involvement with investors in order to create a better relationship.Even before coming to an agreement, the main tool for entrepreneurs to introduce their idea to financing opportunities is the PITCH. BA usually see hundreds of pitches a year, so it is important for entrepreneurs to be able to summarise their growth target briefly and in a manner tempting. To give entrepreneurs that opportunity, a manual focuses on the main characteristics a PITCH should have and thus improves trust, knowledge and confidence of what to expect and better prepared the entrepreneur for dealing with possible challenges.The European Qualification Framework aims at providing a transnational solution to the lack of trust, understanding and knowledge of entrepreneurs of these funding schemes (EBAN). The scope of these four modules is for entrepreneurs and start-ups to acquire the needed knowledge to go through success investment and financing processes without failure of losing their companies. The training modules will focus on developing contents that provide tools and knowledge for entrepreneurs on how to successfully conduct business with angel investors in terms of harbouring a successful relationship. The platform where it will be hosted, the LMS, facilitates the multiplication across Europe of open and flexible training, enabling trainees to learn flexibly at one’s own pace.All these results have the same objective, to increase knowledge of entrepreneurs, start-ups and the training sector of business angels financing schemes and make sure the acquisition of knowledge and skills. The final aim is to tackle the lack of trust and understanding of BA investment schemes and thus increase the rate of entrepreneurs benefiting from BA and boost new ideas. The project will develop innovative training materials that the market don’t offer, most of the existing courses regarding funding raising are focus just on investor and most of the entrepreneurs cannot achieve them since they are really expensive and they are provided by private business schools, giving more chances to participant with fewer opportunities.Case Study on Successful Investment Funding SchemesRoadmap towards Doing Sustainable Business with Investors (Guide on PITCH; Code of Conduct; Guide on usual terms and vocabulary)European Qualification Framework for an Entrepreneurs Investment OfficeTraining course on alternative financing schemes for entrepreneursToolkit on balanced Funding Schemes with Business Angels (1) which contains:-How to assess venture relationships for entrepreneurs (Entrepreneurs’s book) (1)-“Codes of Conduct between Entrepreneurs and Business Angels Investors” (1)-Management of fair and balanced investments, (management techniques, communication, legal aspects)(Investors book) (1)-Equalising the language guide (1)-35 Practical cases on fair and balanced venture capital business (1)European standard for the qualification of investment agents with professional competence at EU level 1Diploma for students 1Trainer’s Book 1Course Evaluation Guide, 1Methodological guideline 1Evaluation Guide 1Roadmap to business with investors 1LMS platform 1Number of working groups with stakeholders (6)Target number of entrepreneurs per country who successfully completed the course and earned their diploma beyond the end of the project 20Nº VET students / BA / Investors who have completed the training 80Nº Countries where the course has been successfully completed 6Nº Target organizations in multiplier events in total 215"

<< Background >>The fundamental aim of AHEH is to improve the long-term prospects of our Arts and Humanities graduates and to equip them with the tools and confidence they need to succeed. Through a comprehensive programme of activities, we collaboratively researched a perceived skills gap between academia and business to inform the development and pilot-testing of an innovative training programme, tailored to the specific needs, sensibilities and learning style preferences of HEI arts and humanities students.<< Objectives >>1.Better align HEI entrepreneurship training to EntreComp. Create a training programme to up-skill HEI staff, embed delivery & translation within Arts & Humanities (A&H) faculties via dedicated Hubs2.Foster business/HEI collaboration to meet stakeholder needs, improve understanding of entrepreneurship & expand knowledge exchange & RD&I. 3.Foster business innovation through engagement with A&H students4.Develop & mentor A&H students through AHEH 5.Improve student entrepreneurial ability<< Implementation >>Research to ensure alignment with training needs specific to A&H. Inc. surveys, literature review, case studies & interviews. This informed the development of AHEH challenge-based training programme, reflecting preferred active learning style identified. Partners collaborated with stakeholders to film challenges for learners. Training was pilot-tested & evaluated at national & EU level to enable further refinement. Enterprise partner engagement was invaluable to give ‘in the moment’ feedback.<< Results >>•Multi-method research activity & contextual review report•Training programme, framework, resources and trainer & user manuals •Pilot training at EU & national level & reports•AHEH online platform, contents, platform map & manual•Webinar series•7 Entrepreneurship Hubs for A&H students in partner HEIs•Externally-set challenges•Dissemination assets, resources & report•Exploitation plan & manual for Hubs•Quality manual & reports•Project Management reports/agreements

The objective of YES C+C is to enhance creative, cultural and digital competences of adult learners through the development of a tailored made training path and the access of their creations to market through a transnational online collaborative platform, showcasing creations of the participants, setting up common creative projects and contributing to the resilience of creative and culture sectors.Besides de training and employment objectives of our project, YES C+C will have a holistic approach, considering the enhancement of cultural and creativity skills as a perfect vehicle to achieve social inclusion. YES C+C Project counts on a multi-agent partnership, composed by 5 organizations (Spain, North Macedonia, Italy, Portugal and Germany) with complementary skills and prior knowledge or experiences on the project field. Project partners will be supported by members of Local Action Groups (one per partner) with the participation of the main regional and local stakeholders dealing with the project aim. Therefore, these associated partners will be also right vehicles to access to Project target groups. YES C+C Project target groups are one hand, adults over 18 years old who wish to improve their creative, cultural and innovative competences and skills with especial emphasis in more vulnerable groups such as unemployed people, women, low-skilled people, etc. As a secondary target group, YES C+C Project will work with adults’ trainers (called mentors) who will be trained in the Project working methodology and training programme and, in a second phase, they will teach adult learners.The work programme has been structured to achieve project results. Based on the needs analysis developed in the preparation phase, Project will develop a training Programme as well as an online training, showcase and networking Platform to increase creativity, culture and innovation skills among adult learners to be able to develop their own creativity projects, gain social inclusion and increase their employability. In order to achieve these Project results, YES C+C Project has planned the following activities: -Development of a Toolkit to screen and profile participants (IO1), developing a practical solution based on the methodological approach of Case Management which puts the adult learners in the focus of the processes and working with a very personalised but holistic approach. -Design of the training curriculum and mentors’ Guidelines.-Implementation of a mobility action (C1) targeted to mentors to discuss and standardized training and working methodology with adult learners. -Implementation of piloting actions at local level to test learning curriculum.-1 multiplier event per country to disseminate project outputs.-Development of an online Platform to train adult learners, to showcase their creations and to develop collaborations with other participants. The Portal will include the International Academy (IO3).YES C+C Project will have direct and beneficial impact in the participants, in the project partners organisations as well as in other stakeholders. Adult learners will increase their awareness about the importance of upskilling and reskilling; improve their technical knowledge on ICT (digitalisation, use of online platforms, etc); increase their skills to think out-of-the-box, developing creative solutions to problems and digital competences which will improve their employability and social inclusion; be better prepared to face changes in a complex work environment and, in the case of mentors, they will increase their competences in the assessment of learners’ skills and in teaching creative and innovative skills. At long term, YES C+C partnership envisages the implementation of Sustainability and Exploitation Plan, being to underline that the whole partnership is formed by organisations with complementary competences and experience who currently deal with the main project issues: adults, culture and creativity, education, employment and social inclusion. Therefore, the base of YES C+C Project demonstrates that partners are fully committed to develop outputs that will be used after the end of the project implementation period in their in-house services.At the same time, as already mentioned YES C+C Project will count on the support of the Local Action Groups created from the beginning of the project. These Groups will also incorporate part of Project outputs in their professional activities and they will serve, as well as dissemination vectors of project outputs among their contacts and networks.The active role that innovative creativity and culture can play in the post-Covid area is very important to guarantee more resilient societies thanks to collaboration with the educational sector, being a niche of new employment opportunities, promoting social inclusive projects not to leave no one behind and improving the sustainably green footprint of the new creative projects.

<< Objectives >>Objective 1 - Provide adult learners the up-to-date knowledge needed to navigate all the different way of improving sustainability in everyday life.Objective 2 - Teach people how to reach a large public audience by teaching them how to produce and publish a podcastObjective 3 - Document how to implement sustainability guidelines into a real-life situation by making a podcast series.Objective 4 - Develop, test and maintain a high quality OER providing an innovative learning environment.<< Implementation >>WP2: The SustainCast Sustainability GuideBook and Video-guidesTo provide knowledge and skills to live more sustainablyWP3: The SustainCast Podcast Producer CourseTo teach podcast productionWP4 The SustainCast PodcastTo document reflections and experiences during the SustainCast challenges WP5: The SustainCast Online Platformproduction and test of an Online learning platform for the results.<< Results >>A GuideBook that provides the up-to-date knowledge needed to navigate all the different ways of improving sustainability in your everyday life in the areas of Food, Clothing, Transportation, Travel, Plastic Waste and Energy Consumption.A set of Video-guides presenting the Skills needed to implement this knowledge.A podcast producer course.A podcast series presenting real life experiences and reflections in implementing this knowledge into your lifestyle.An online learning platform.