INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT Hi4CSR

1. TPM, Ljubljana, 14.10.2016.

CONTENT1. GENERAL INFORMATION AND THE BACKGROUND OF THE

PROJECT2. MAIN OBJECTIVES3. TARGET GROUPS4. RESULTS5. PARTICIPANTS6. PROJECT MANAGEMENT7. PROJECT ACTIVITIES8. MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT ACTIVITIES 9. SUSTAINABILITY

1. General information and the background of the project

• Programme – Erasmus+• Eight partners from seven countries Project coordinator: RRiF (Croatia) Project partners: IDOP (Croatia) Ekvilib Institute (Slovenia) Global Impact Grid (Germany) Pontis Foundation (Slovakia) LUM University (Italy) Trucost (UK) ABIS – The Academy of Business in Society (Belgium)

1. General information and the background of the project

• Key Action – Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices

• Which field is most impacted? Strategic Partnership for adult education

• Main objective of the project – Exchange of practices

• Duration: October 14th 2016 – April 30th 2018

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I. Priorities of the project• Improve achievement in relevant and high-level basic

and transversal competences in a lifelong learning perspective

ADULT EDUCATION: Designing and implementing effective provision for enhancing the basic skills and key competences• Improving and extending the offer of high quality

learning opportunities

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II. Most relevant topics• Reaching the policy level/dialogue with

decision makers• Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl.

entrepreneurship)• EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

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Why did we choose these topics and priorities?

• Lifelong learning and education of adults are one of the EU priorities when it comes to educational policies as a whole.

• EU developed strong mandatory CSR legislative to become competitive and sustainable economy at world's level.

• Citizens and enterprises will have to learn new skills and key competences in order to achieve competitive advantage.

1. General information and background of the project

Strategy Europe 2020 -> ensuring smart, stable, inclusive and sustainable economy. • EU legislative -> a concept of CSR or sustainability

has become mandatory in the form of the law. • Decision makers are stimulating CSR behavior of

the adults and enterprises who will gain competitive advantage in behaving at enlightened CSR way.

2. Main objectives

• The exchange of good practices in order to increase the project partners’, enterprises’ and decision makers’ knowledge of EU CSR Directives harmonization process to national legal frameworks.

• The establishment of permanent network between enterprises, society and decision makers

• Creation of a CSR guide for enterprises, adults and decision makers to increase adult education of CSR legislative.

2. Main objectives I. The role of Hi4CSR

• Transeuropean project – different partners' countries learning about common EU CSR legislative framework

-> spreading knowledge and developing new or upgraded competitive learning opportunities

• Examples of good practice + education based on the strategic partnership:-> realization at an international level,-> providing opportunities for further training,-> improving and extending the offer of high quality learning opportunities.

• The project partners, decision makers, enterprise representatives, participants and participants of lectures and seminars will:a) improve their key competences, b) develop specific and identifiable skills,c) achieve greater employability and easier mobility.

2. Main objectives II. Main focus of the project

1. Exchange of practices of the European CSR legislative to national frameworks in order to educate European adults, decision makers and enterprises.

2. CSR practices in EU that are becoming mandatory: increasing transparency, recycling, reducing pollution, equality, etc. -> developing competitive economy based on professionals knowledge, skills and innovation:

3. European enterprises: in order to minimize business instability, legal penalties, social and environmental risks, enterprises are facing an increasing trend of implementing CSR activities in their business.

4. European employees and enterprises (current and future): facing an increased demand for knowing European CSR legislative in order to behave in a social and ecological manner.

3. Target groups1. ADULTS (Academic society, CSR managers, HR managers, adults interested in EU CSR legislative framework, attendees of partners educational and consulting programs)

2. EU ENTERPRISES & DECISION MAKERS (enterprises, European and national decision makers, national agencies)

3. MEDIA

4. NGO's & LOCAL COMMUNITIES

- Through educational programs and future activities.

4. Results of the project1. RAISED EDUCATION OF THE ADULTS ABOUT CSR LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK

a) Increased adult, enterprise and decision makers education about CSR legislative framework-> better understanding of CSR harmonization to national frameworks-> sharing the best practices of CSR implementation.

b) CSR GUIDE for enterprises, adults and decision makersThe first comparative analysis study in EU-> examples of harmonization and good practice of CSR implementation in national frameworks-> current status and best practices in harmonization of the EU legal framework among the project partners countries-> translated to all project partner's languages.

4. Results of the projectc) Online video material->published on Vimeo after every Learning activity-> for public usage and project partners educational and consulting programs

2. ACHIEVED (ESTABLISHED) DIALOGUE/NETWORK BETWEEN ADULTS, ENTERPRISES AND DECISION MAKERS-> Hi4CSR is a network between adults, enterprises and decision makers -> Dialogue will be achieved through TPMs, LAs, dissemination and local events

4. Results of the project3. COMPETITIVE ADVENTAGE FOR PROJECT PARTNERS, DECISION MAKERS, ADULTS, ENTERPRISE REPRESENTATIVES, ECT.• understanding legal framework and CSR objectives in general• ensuring exchange of good practices,• learning and designing educational tools for implementation

of CSR objectives in businesses and society which have to be harmonized with national laws

• improving businesses and becoming more competitive across the EU

4. Results of the project4. POSITIVE SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF TRANSNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP

1. Learning about the best practices and their implementation from other member states.

2. Improving services and knowledge, increasing competitive advantage at an open EU market of labor, goods and services.

3. Creation of a CSR Guide and other material/publications.4. Facilitation of the development of business activities in the new

EU regions.

5. Participants1. SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENTFacebook, Twitter, LinkedIn

2. PUBLISHED EDUCATIVE PROJECT MATERIALCSR Guide, presentations, publications, on-line video material, blog, research papers, published articles in RRIF magazine and website.

3. OPENNESS FOR NEW COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMSConnecting with project partners in all possible levels.

4. EDUCATION AND CONSULTING PROGRAMS OF PARTNERSSeminars, courses, lectures, workshops, project partners conferences.

6. Project managementI. COOPERATION AND COMMUNICATION

Held continuously through:1. Between consortiumE-mail and Skype - Skype follow-up meetings after every Learning Activity (LA) and Transnational project meeting (TPM)2. Between consoritum and stakeholdersE-mail for general correspondence and noticesNewsletter (monthly), press releases and blogsFacebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

6. Project managementII. RESPONSIBILITES

Coordinator:1. Responsible for coordination, managing and disseminating the project. 2. Responsible for collecting all documents (offers, receipts, etc.).3. Provide all project partners with documentation for project activities in English.4. Launch, coordinate and monitor the website of the project, on line game and social media.5. Creating questionnaires, statistical analysis and reporting of the project activities through Quarterly Project Reports.6. Being a part of a local event.5. Be at disposal to all project partners and interested stakeholders.

6. Project managementII. RESPONSIBILITES

Project partners:1. Collect offers for local cost (room reservation, etc.)2. Connect with projects’ and share project's social media content.3. Organize and participate in activities under the project objectives and goals

specified in the agreement.4. Regularly communicate with the coordinator and all interested stakeholders.

5. Organize a LA or a TPM.6. Creata a quarterly report of the project outcomes status.7. Participate in the evaluation of the project.8. Write a Blog for official website.9. Present the project at a local event(s) or a conference(s).10. Be at disposal to other partners, coordinator and interested stakeholders.

6. Project managementIII. BUDGET control (coordinator):1. All transactions will be transparent and visible as they are made. 2. All transactions will be paid to project members upon a certain project activity and enclosed a proof of payment (a receipt).3. Signing an agreement with project partners (project rules).4. Project Management and Implementation costs are paid to the partners on quarterly basis.5. Coordinator is responsible for collecting bills and informing project partners.6. Project partners will allocate the funds upon receiving original proof of payment (a receipt).7. Coordinator: Quarterly Budget Reports.

7. Project activitiesA) TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETINGS (TPM) – one day1. Ljubljana, October 2016 – introduction2. Bratislava, November 2017 – monitoring 3. Zagreb, April 2018 – end of the project

B) LEARNING ACTIVITIES (LA) – five daysPresentation + discussion and an interactive workshop

7. Project activities

1. Zagreb, January 2017 – RRiF – Directive on Stimulating the processing of used materials. – IDOP – Changes that came about from the amendments of the regulations

on donating food in Croatia.– Ekvilib Institute – Directive about Employment of the disabled persons in

social enterprises.– Pontis Foundation – Directive about obligatory Non-Financial reporting.– LUM – Directive regarding the subject of Eco labeling.

2. Berlin, May 2017– GIG – Integration of Innovation in CSR Practices.

3. Brussels, October 2017– EABIS – Current state of play of CSR at the EU level.

4. London, December 2017 – Trucost – EU Water Framwork

• Acquired skills - Europass

7. Project activitesC) LOCAL EVENTS AND DISSEMNIATION ACTIVITIES • RRiF: Publishing articles in an monthly magazine - RRiF and participation

at an International conference 'Accounting and management' (Croatia, June 2017)

• IDOP: Annual conference 'Corporate Social Responsibilty' organized by the Croatian Business Council for Sustainable Development (Croatia, December 2017).

• EABIS: Pan-European leadership event in Brussels in October/November 2017, EABIS annual Colloquium.

• EKVILIB: Annual conference ‘Trends in the CSR’, May/June in Slovenia. • TRUCOST: Series of events throught the year: Aligning investment

portfolios with climate goals, Best Practice for CSR Reporting, Global water risk, Stranded assets.

7. Project activites

C) LOCAL EVENTS AND DISSEMNIATION ACTIVITIES • PONTIS: The CEE CSR Summit that takes place

each year in November in Bratislava.• GIG: 4 different seminars - Corporate Ethics

Management, Environmental Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility Management – CSR Communication, Leadership and Human Rights.

• LUM: Smaller-size events on CSR for PhD students

8. Monitoring and evaluation of project activities

During and after every project acitivity – published in Quarterly project reports 1. QUESTIONNAIRES AND ACTIVITIES EVALUATION (outsourced)

– a) Printed questionnaires for participants and stakeholders– b) On-line evaluation (Qualtrics or Google tools)

2. SOCIAL MEDIA AND NEWSLETTER ANALYSIS (coordinator)– a) Monitored through social media analytics and statistical insights (+

boosting)– b) Newsletters - Mail Chimp– c) Online video game for calculating CSR index

3. OFFICIAL WEBSITE AND ON-LINE VIDEO MATERIAL ANALYSIS (coordinator)4. Video material on Vimeo channel – after learning activities

8. Monitoring and evaluation of project activities

5. RRiF monthly magazine6. PR RELEASES (coordinator)– Poject partners will note and save all the materials

published by the media in their countries, as well as inform the coordinator about every media reaction.

7. CSR GUIDE – free for download8. Follow-up Skype calls – two weeks after every TPM9. Contact base

9. Sustainability

• maintaining the results of the project through further education and consultation,

• openness for collaboration, • searching for new future partners,• spreading participants audience,• empasizing networking, exchanging contacts,• creating an impact on a larger scale

Web and Social media pages

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