"<< Background >>The reasons to plan the project rise from the three United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals: 8 Decent work and Economic Growth, 12 Responsible Consumption and 13 Climate ChangeClimate change is an unprecedented threat happening right now on our planet and it has an ongoing impact on all of us. Climate change is being listed asone of the many important Sustainable Development Goals of the UN: “take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”. Fortunately, people are paying more attention to behave in a an environmentally friendly way as well as making choices that promote sustainability. However, all the undertakings are still rather fragmented. There is a LACK ofunderstanding how to change business strategy to act with a positive impact and sustainable manner. According to The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risk reports, the most significant risk facing businesses is the FAILURE to ADAPT to CLIMATE CHANGE. With this project we are addressing the needs of companies and entrepreneurs, that lack easily accessible information, knowledge and methods to make their business sustainable. We also address the needs of students and future work force as well as that of higher education institutions to learn and strengthen their knowledge of the environmentally friendly ways to do business. Our project aims to offer one particular solution and bring a contribution to the global movement to save our planet. ENTREPRENEURS and businesses are functioning as ENGINES of the societies, meaning that if they start to think and act greener, they will have a huge impact on the societal level.Turning into a green company means developing attitude towards sustainability, finding new ways to operate. It is a process that includes many steps, challenges and changes, even a shift of the whole business value perspective towards sustainable thinking. However, there is a lack of actual competence and skills. Plenty of businesses struggle with the process of identifying their own means of adapting, preparing and becoming more resilient to climate change. There is a lack of easy accessible guiding material, education and training on what actually needs to be done, what are necessary steps in the shift towards sustainable operations, how to innovate the business model towards “green” acting.<< Objectives >>The project aims to strengthen the knowledge, understanding and importance of environmental and sustainable issues in business. The knowledge and understanding will be improved among entrepreneurs, students, teachers and other workers in organisations. The most important target groups are the entrepreneurs, that lack easily applicable methods to exercise business in sustainable and environmentally friendly way.Overall objective of the project is to increase know-how of entrepreneurs (current and future), to become more resilient to climate change with the competence to create new business models aiming at positive environmental impact. Specific objective of the project is to create a modern up-to-date knowledge base and digital learning material for education that would enhance entrepreneurial thinking and action towards environmental consciousness and sustainability taking into consideration climate change. This is done by developing digital handbook on Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Climate Action. DIGITAL HANDBOOK IS METHODOLOGY, STEP BY STEP GUIDANCE ON HOW TO INNOVATE BUSINESS MODELS FOR CLIMATE SPECIFIC ADAPTATION STRATEGY.The project defines three particular target groups: 1. Target group directly benefiting during the project – LEARNERS(aspiring entrepreneurs, students) and EDUCATORS(university teachers/entrepreneurship coaches) 2. Project beneficiaries will benefit from the outputs and results of the project in a long run – entrepreneurs globally, businesses invarious industries, local and regional authorities, education institutions globally. 3. Other Stakeholders, having a stake or an interest in the project results and may gain during theproject via dissemination activities or after the project due to the sustainability of results –global business communities, NGOs, governments, policy makers, volunteers, communities.<< Implementation >>The implementation of the project will be done by five work packages. Tasks in the work packages are divided by participating organisations and an organisation will take lead of one work package always. In WP 1 called the Supportive research on Sustainable Business Practices, applied research will be carried out by the participating organisations. WP 2 Development of Digital Handbook on Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Climate Action and learning activities for piloting the handbook in learning setting, includes activities through which the Digital handbook is developed and later distributed to users. WP 3 is called Development of Digital material platform and it includes for example the production of video materialssupporting digital handbook, platform and social media on sustainable and climate change aware business. WP 4 concentrates on dissemination of project activities and results and WP 5 consists of Project Management. The project implementation includes four multiplier events by which the result of the first work package on Sustainable Business Practices are disseminated. Fourth and final multiplier event concludes the dissemination of project results.The project includes two activities belonging to the category of Learning, Teaching, Training Activities. The first, Training for teachers and trainers implementing piloting of the digital handbook will be a short-term joint staff training event. Its goal and purpose is to improve the know-how of educators on sustainable entrepreneurship training methodologies and increase knowledge on climate change issues and how to integrate it with business model innovation. Target group is educators. The second, Digital Handbook piloting with the target group will be an intensive programme for higher education learners. Participants will be eight selected students who are aspiring entrepreneurs from different academic disciplines of all three partner universities and two selected companies (one representative of each company) for Digital Handbook piloting. In the event student teams and entrepreneurs defend their business ideas for sustainable entrepreneurship start-up. The goal is that students know the basic approach in defining the source of innovation for entrepreneurship work in the context of climate change challenges and how these challenges turn into opportunities for creating an innovative business model and business idea.<< Results >>Key results at the project level are increased ""green"" entrepreneurial and sustainable business skills of learners, improved training competence of educators and new training methodology via OUTPUTS, multiplier events and learning events. 1. Supportive research on Sustainable Business Practices - increased knowledge on good sustainable business practices, business model innovation via mapping activity and research that will serve as a reference for handbook2. Digital Handbook on Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Climate Action - digital free access open source educational material and methodology3. Entrepreneurship for Climate Action Digital learning module platform and Social media – increased access to digital material collection, Vlogs and dissemination, thus increasedknowledge and competence by users4. Digital Learning Video Material – Vlog materials supporting digital handbook for engaging learning5. Seminar in Finland, Latvia and Germany to disseminate results of the study on ""Sustainable business practices""6. Training for teachers and trainers implementing piloting of the digital handbook - improved competence and available efficient digital education tool-set7. Handbook piloting with the project target group - increased knowledge, “green” competence of participants and more innovative business ideas and possible new businesses in the region, gained ECTS by students8. Concluding Conference to disseminate project results – more than 250 people raised the awareness on the issue of the project topicThe digital handbook will be based on the guidelines and the following points describe the draft content for the core of the handbook. The guidelines will provide the ""how to do it in practice"" -approach emphasising core subjects on how to develop Green Skills and SDGs competence applied in entrepreneurship; how to discover an innovative opportunity for green business, from problem to solution; how to make Green Value creation through innovation process; how to apply Business Model Innovation for climate-smart action; how to find Eco and SDGs inclusive business ideas delivering market-based solutions and how to carry out climate action based project from start to finish."