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Environmental application for startups

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Environmental app for startups is one of the results of the “Environmental change” project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Full project name: Environmental change in European start-uppers thinking and acting – the solution for common sustainable development.

Average rating: 3.0
Duration

2022 - ongoing


Location

EU


Description of the Green Initiative

Target groups

Startups, young adults, entrepreneurs and the VET (vocational education and training) sector.


Objectives

The Environmental app for startups provides a personalised strategy addressing weak points and empowering to take an active approach towards environmental change, and thus be prepared to influence sustainable processes.


Description

The app involves knowledge across 6 thematic parts and in the form of practical activities:

  1. ways of transition to natural energy and combating climate change,
  2. towards biodiversity and ecological transformation of companies,
  3. plastic waste management in your SME,
  4. redesigning products and services to minimise the use of materials,
  5. circular businesses models, and
  6. life cycle thinking.

It has 3 parts: a self-assessment panel concerning environmental change processes in SMEs, a customised training pathway and a strategy maker panel. Based on the results of the self-assessment, the training pathway will be focused on the basic, intermediate or advanced level in a given part.


Impact

Training on environmental issues in the form of a mobile app has the potential to better attract younger generations, startups and entrepreneurs especially in view of the fast-paced life.


Innovative elements

Supporting the uptake of innovative approaches and digital technologies for teaching and learning offering m-learning on current topics.


Transferability

The app can initiate the preparation of own personalized training that can focus of effective use of paste going away from plastic and save ideas in the strategy maker panel.


Additional information

The app is available for free.

For Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.dcnet.environmentalchange&pli=1

For iOS:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/environmental-change/id6443677096%20

Available languages: English, Polish, Greek, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish


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