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Well-being in our society can no longer be based on overconsumption of natural resources. To maintain viable businesses, we need new solutions to ensure that materials and their value circulate in our society for as long as possible and loss and waste are kept to a minimum. The 2017 EU Consensus on Development identifies circular economy (CE) as priority area that contributes to the transformation to sustainable and resilient societies in the EU. With Agenda 2030 EU member states commit to using natural resources more efficiently and implementing sustainable production methods and ways of consumption. The EU CE Package (2018) sets ambitious goals for 2030 which involve systemic change on all levels of the society creating the urgent need for circular entrepreneurial mindset of all its actors including those underrepresented among business founders - low skilled, low qualified young adults - who need to be enabled to use their creative and innovative potentials.Micro, family firms are the driving force for empowerment of young adults - active or future entrepreneurs. To apply CE to micro firms, start-ups, active or future entrepreneurs need new skills for circular thinking. To implement CE micro enterprises often need new business models. Main changes include different products or services, different (relationships with) customers, different production processes and revenue models. Managing these changes requires entrepreneurs to understand: the logic by which a circular enterprise creates and delivers shared or multiple value to customers (Porter & Kramer, 2011); what does this new way of thinking mean for the business community; how can profitable business models be combined with social and environmental responsibility; how can they design products right from the beginning, and do things better, instead of just less bad. The skills to understand the circular business model are essential for low-skilled/low-qualified people for whom creating and running viable (circular) business is significantly more challenging than for others. They have difficulties accessing affordable high quality entrepreneurial trainings and lack education tailored to their specific needs in the field of CE. LiveCircularCanvas addresses the above challenges and contributes to achievement of EU priorities by developing key entrepreneurial skills of low-skilled, low-qualified, unemployed young adults (active or future entrepreneurs) in order to be able to design circular products and services and to create and run their businesses while getting more value out of less.Its objectives focus on: • Exploring circular business models through digital success stories of circular enterprises in EU, and using them as highly innovative training tools• Designing and testing a new training program for key entrepreneurial skills for circular thinking• Developing practical, interactive, highly educational training methods, materials and tools to gain core skills for circular entrepreneurial techniques• Developing and maintaining high quality OER providing open and innovative learning environment for the target groupThe core target groups are:1. Low-skilled, low-qualified, unemployed young adults (active or future entrepreneurs, start-ups) 2. Adult education providers Intellectual outputs:1. 'Circular Doing and Thinking’ - Real-life Stories2. Circular Business Models of Entrepreneurial Practices (CBMCs)3. ‘Circular Thinking Goes Digital’ - Digital Stories of Successful Entrepreneurs4. Curriculum for 'Circular Thinking in Action' Training Program5. LiveCircularCanvas Digital Educational Product6. LiveCircularCanvas Digital Learning HubThe consortium consist of 6 partners from SE, RO, NL, ES, DK, CZ highly motivated in designing, testing and sustaining the project outputs, with complementary expertise and highly experienced in the project topics. The project will also engage, share knowledge and experience with other 34 institutions as ‘organisations of interest’, to be involved during implementation and dissemination events.A total of 75 young adults will benefit the pilot workshops using the LiveCircularCanvas educational tools; 28 experts/trainers from partner countries will be directly involved in the validation process of various outcomes; 10 adult trainers will take part in the short-term transnational staff training testing and validating the LiveCircularCanvas curriculum. The LiveCircularCanvas outcomes and results will directly reach at least 600 persons (targeted adults and experts/adult trainers, stakeholders) via project activities, multiplier events, creating a very strong base for long term exploitation. We are strongly convinced that the LiveCircularCanvas educational product and tools will be core part of the training offer of organisations involved in the project. The Digital Learning Hub will be sustained for a min of 5 years and be largely promoted among adult education communities and beyond.
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