Partners area
The Low Carbon Economy Foundation (LCEF) is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) founded in 2014 and located in La Vall d’Uixó, Valencian Community, Spain. Its mission is to participate in creating a society based on a low-carbon economy, facilitating processes of transformation towards intelligent and sustainable development. The main goal of the Foundation is to promote training and education, as well as dissemination, demonstration, mentoring, funding, consultancy, and comprehensive management towards a low-carbon economy model. LCEF’s members are professionals in education, sustainability, and the environment, and they have an extensive network of Vocational Education and Training (VET) educational centers, green enterprises, eco-associations, and youth organizations.
ARCES, a non-profit organisation, is a University College recognised by the Ministry for the University and Research (decree D.P.C.M., dated 19 November, 1991). ARCES is providing an inter-disciplinary paradigm and support for university studies, by contributing to the professional and personal growth of university students. ARCES is accredited by the Sicilian Region as a Vocational Education and Training (VET) Centre (DDG 2374 of May 23, 2014).
It promotes training programmes, qualification and updating activities to develop young people, adults and workers’ expertise in several fields, including sustainable rural development. ARCES will leverage on its more than 10 years’ experience in EU projects, (2014-2024), as it has received EU funding to implement four Cross border cooperation projects aimed at improving the marketable skills of jobseekers and adult women to facilitate their job creation potential (i.e., start-ups, associations, social cooperatives) especially in the field of Green, Blue and Circular economy.
Specifically, with its participation in the projects “JOB MATCH 2020” (co-funded under Interreg VA Italy Malta Programme 2014-2020), “HELIOS” (co-funded under ENI CBC MED 2014-2020), “GREENLAND” (co-funded under ENI CBC MED 2014-2020), and “CLUSTER” (co-funded under ENI CBC MED 2014- 2020) ARCES has designed targeted and tailored training courses and curricula oriented towards specific needs of the labour market as well as traineeship programmes in selected companies operating in the rural tourism and environmental sectors. Moreover, ARCES has also implemented several project online platforms by co-designing the tools to host online training courses and other digital resources.
Finally, ARCES was involved in several awareness raising campaigns and dissemination events within the framework of both EU and Regional funded Projects. ARCES is currently working in adult education and in supporting development initiatives in rural areas. Its working experience in education and training, as well as its membership in various networks, enriches this project.
More: www.arces.it
InEuropa srl is an Italian company founded in 2006 by experts that have been working for over 20 years on EU projects, with the aim of supporting public and private bodies in accessing European financial opportunities, managing european projects and developing training methodologies in the field of education and training, behaviour change, culture and inclusion. It experiments different non-formal training methodologies with students, young people and adults to promote their personal and professional growth, helping to identify goals and reflect on the impact their lifestyle has on the wider world. In this framework, various projects are aimed at increasing knowledge and awareness on environmental challenges and behavior change developing innovative training paths to empower and engage people to make a change and foster sustainable behaviors and approaches. InEuropa is member of Global Action Plan International (GAPI) network committed to environmental behavior change.
The University Extension Programme – PEU of the Universitat Jaume I works to link territory and institution. It offers technical assistance, specific training and meeting spaces to local groups in the province of Castellón with projects on development, participation, education, heritage and contemporary art. Its objective is to accompany long-term projects where the most important and valued thing is the process and not so much the short-term results. This service is aimed at cultural agents involved in processes of socio-cultural development in rural areas.
The PEU UJI Accompaniment model is very unique and proposes a new way of relating the University and the Territory. Each of these processes are developed at the local level. The sum of all these projects accompanied by the University Extension Program constitutes a supra-municipal space for relations around culture and development and proposes new frameworks for collaboration and citizen action within the context of measures to confront the depopulation that characterizes the interior of our province.
One of the main keys of the PEU UJI is the developing of networks that connect the institution (the University) and the Territory (the people that develops cultural projects).
Department of Geography (at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana) is a pedagogical and research institution. It provides accredited BSc, MSc and PhD programmes in the field of Geography, for Geography specialists and Geography teachers. The department consists of 25 staff members (including university teachers and assisstants, full-time researchers, cartographers, librarians, laboratory technician), has its own research centre, library and cartographic library, geographic and cartographic laboratory and physical geography laboratory. The research is focused on several topics (environmental issues, rural development, local and regional development, spatial development and planning), being a part of theoretical or applied research. Over the
last years we have participated in several international and national projects related to rural issues and have created extended rural network with practicioners. Key projects: NEWBIE (New Entrants into farming – their business and entry models), FLIARA (Female-Led Innovation in Agriculture and Rural Areas), REBOUND (Fostering Resilience in Rural Communities), etc.
Centre for Sustainable Rural Development (CTRP) Kranj is a non-profit and non-governmental development institute covering the whole Gorenjska region and focusing exclusively on initiatives that are environmentally, economically and socially sustainable. Its main areas of activity are: education and awareness-raising on sustainable development with an emphasis on environmentally responsible lifestyles and consumerism, development of sustainable small entrepreneurship and new forms of rural employment, intergenerational cooperation and empowerment of vulnerable target groups, promotion of the introduction of sustainable environmental technologies and efficient use of natural resources, sustainable mobility, development of sustainable tourism and local food self-sufficiency with an emphasis on organic farming.
Since its establishment in 2003, CTRP Kranj has implemented more than 30 regional, national and EU projects, including LEADER, EEA Financial Mechanism and EU programmes such as the cross-border programmes SI-AT and SI-IT, Interreg IIIB, Interreg IVC, transnational programmes for South-Eastern Europe, Erasmus+, etc.
The main forms of action are awareness raising and education for sustainable management, transfer and testing of innovative approaches for a quality and healthy life for people, nature and the environment, networking of different actors and setting up infrastructure for sustainable development.
The Centre also has an ongoing cooperation with the most important local and regional actors in Gorenjska, as well as with related institutions and NGOs across Slovenia and the EU. The Centre is a member of the Plan B NGO Network for Sustainable Development in Slovenia and coordinator of the Working Group on Organic Farming. CTRP Kranj also offers mentoring in the implementation of internships for high school and university students and mentoring in the preparation of theses in the field of sustainable development.
