Name of the project

Circular Human Resource Management

Acronym

Circular HRM

Contract number

2019-1-BE01-KA202-050448

Project Funding

329.460 EUR

Project Coordinator

POUR LA SOLIDARITE ASBL, Belgium 

Project partners

ARIS FORMAZIONE E RICERCA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA , Italy

SGS TECNOS, Spain

VIESOJI ISTAIGA KAUNO MOKSLO IR TECHNOLOGIJU PARKAS, Lithuania

People Management Network, Belgium

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY, Ireland

FUNDACION EQUIPO HUMANO, Spain

Center for Knowledge Management, North Macedonia

Implementation period

01.09.2019 – 31.12.2021

Project web page

www.circular-hrm.eu

Target groups

Circular HRM supports the transition of European SMEs of the eco industry sector from a traditional, linear HRM model, to a circular HRM model that enhances the regeneration of skills and competences at workplace and favors circular and sustainable businesses and organizational models.

Eco-industries are defined as those sectors within which the main –or a substantial part of –activities are undertaken with the primary purpose of the production of goods and services to measure, prevent, limit, minimize or correct environmental damage to water, air and soil, as well as problems related to waste, noise and eco-systems. SMEs from the eco-sector are oriented towards sustainable and eco-friendly solutions, and they make the natural target group for the Circular HRM project.

The project will provide up-skilling opportunities for HR managers of SMEs of the eco sector, tackling the cross-national issue of skills mismatches and ageing workforce through the development of circular HRM training. HR's circular practices will have a positive impact on:

• EU SMEs: avoid the risk of skills mismatches
• EU market: Creating jobs without redundancies the human capital already present
• EU economy and environment: For the sustainable development of companies and eco-companies.

Project Activities

The main project activities are:

• Highlighting Circularity into companies
• Training course and trainer guide development
• e-training and knowledge-sharing platform development
• Piloting of the on-the-job and online training courses
• The results will be:
• A Circular Roadmap for firms
• An advocacy Paper
• A European Qualification Framework for HR managers of the eco industries
• Two training programmes
• A trainers’ guide
• An e-learning and knowledge sharing platform
• Piloting of the on-the-job and online training courses.

Project Coordinator

POUR LA SOLIDARITE ASBL - PLS

Founded in 2002, the non-profit organisation “Pour la Solidarité” (PLS) is an independent think tank that works in favour of inclusive and sustainable Europe. Committed to reflect upon and to construct societal improvement, PLS offers to and shares with policy makers its thoughts centred on the value of solidarity. As THINK and DO THANK specialised in European matters, PLS is dedicated to the formulation of proposals and policy recommendations on public policies, personalised counselling and support to private and public actors in terms of consulting, training, formulation and project management, the writing of publications, conferences. 

Web

www.pourlasolidarite.eu

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Partner Organisations

ARIS FORMAZIONE E RICERCA SOCIETA COOPERATIVA

Aris Formazione e Ricerca (Aris - professional training and research) was founded in 1987 with the aim of delivering and design integrated project in the field of professional training, advanced research and counselling. Main areas of expertise are:

• VET, coaching and mentoring aiming at improving managerial skills in the cooperative sector;
• studies and innovative courses aiming at improving individual skills and competencies, related to local development;
• Social inclusion thanks to active labour policies;Integrated and synergic actions at regional, national and European level;
• Specific actions aiming at curriculum development of new professionalism in the service sector.

ARIS associates many social enterprises and cooperatives and act to share knowledge and knowhow acquired by each, as a common value among its partners. One of the main successful peculiarities of ARIS, is the ability to study, understand and tackle specific needs form cooperatives and enterprises, people who work for and territories they operate in.

Web

www.arisformazione.it

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SGS TECNOS SA

SGS TECNOS is a leader in certification and regulation. It´s also a renowned training company with long experience safety and wellbeing at work. They work to achieve an improvement in the working conditions. SGS TECNOS belongs to SGS Group, a multinational company with presence in more than 100 countries and more than 90.000 employees worldwide.

Since 2005, SGS has a specific department to carry out numerous National and International projects in all activities and sectors, to apply their expertise in public calls. In these projects, SGS has different roles (coordination, pedagogical reviewing, ICT Projects, R&D&i Projects, HSE (health and safety of work), environment, energy, vocational training, etc.

SGS has a long experience developing trainings materials for companies. Through its division of innovative projects, they have created innovative trainings in the framework of European projects to contribute that third entities to improve the working conditions of their employees, and face the challenges of the active ageing in workers.

Web

www.sgs.com

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VIESOJI ISTAIGA KAUNO MOKSLO IR TECHNOLOGIJU PARKAS

Kaunas Science and Technology Park is the largest partner of science and business cooperation in this Baltic country. More than 350 companies have been incubated here with a success rate exceeding 90%. Today, we integrate more than 100 companies from IT sector, high tech sector, consultancies, advertisement & publishing companies and associated members. More than 90% employees of Kaunas Science and Technology Park companies are graduates, students or current academic staff of Kaunas University of Technology.

Park is an experienced and qualified partner to more than 50 science institutions and business associations from 23 countries. We have performed such roles as Assistant in E-Learning to innovative SMEs, Mediator of 500 Business Partnerships, Author of Regional Innovation Strategy, Facilitator of newly established businesses, Connector of different generation activities in Innovative Space Creation, and National Coordinator for the EU-scale Spatial Data project and many more. International partnership is realized via participation in European and world-wide networks and associations: IASP, BASTIC, SPICE group, WAINOVA. National partnership accounts the partnering with business support network, Kaunas Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts, Kaunas Regional Development Agency as well as Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists, universities.

Kaunas STP aims to increase the competitiveness of tech businesses globally by providing the highest-level innovation support services, making efficient use of the resources of innovation ecosystem, developing the community of innovative businesses and fostering innovation culture within Kaunas region. Kaunas STP is a component of Lithuanian innovation ecosystem and as an organisation it is putting an effort to meet the present needs of business.

Web

www.kaunomtp.lt

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PEOPLE MANAGEMENT NETWORK - HR Square

Since 2003 HR Square, a Network for Labour Relations and Personnel Management comprises a print magazine, website, newsletters and an ever expanding array of seminars and conferences. HR Square has for the past five years refocused to become a network serving its members with independent information by facilitating contact, exchange and interaction through all possible channels. Today HR Square counts almost nearly 1500 active members in Belgium.

Our members are HR-directors and managers from both private and public sectors, from local as well as multinational enterprises. As part of our mission, we organise and facilitate focus groups of HR professionals on topical (Change Management, Durability, Evidence Based HR eg…) or sector specific (Healthcare, local authorities, etc…). We have structural partnerships with relevant employer organisations, labour unions, and professional local HR associations as well as with notable universities and research groups. HR Square is the premier channel in Belgium through which HR-directors, Managers and professionals get information in the field of work, labour relations and new developments in HR. 

Web

www.hrsquare.be/fr

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY

NUIGALWAY was founded in 1845 as QCG and, from 1904 to 1997, was known as UCG before changing to its current title. The university has 17,500 students across five Colleges with highly active agendas in teaching and research. 15% of the students are pursuing postgraduate studies and 2,300 international students come from 92 countries. It was recognised as Irish University of the Year 2018 by the Sunday Times.

NUIGALWAY is home to the TechInnovate (techinnovate.org) entrepreneurship development programme. Ireland is ideally placed to leverage the bio-waste startup revolution due to its agrifood heritage and burgeoning tech sector. Based on MIT’s Disciplined Entrepreneurship, TechInnovate immerses a team of engineer, businessperson and designer in an agrifood setting for needs finding/ carrying out primary market research. The team develops an investable business plan to commercialise an appropriate technology innovation to solve the key identified need. The TechInnovate Team work with students at all levels of education from primary level through to postgraduate programmes and beyond into industry. 

Web

www.nuigalway.ie

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FUNDACION EQUIPO HUMANO

Fundación Equipo Humano is a private non-for-profit foundation constituted in 2010. The aim of the Foundation is social and labour integration of people. The Foundation was created by experienced professionals from the HR consultancy field. At present, 20 people from different backgrounds are working in our organization, including psychology, political sciences, labour sciences, labour relations, law, etc.

Particularly, FEH has specialised in the implementation of innovative techniques and strategies focused on Human Resources in areas such as, employee engagement, managing internal process and decision making, development and planning of organisational strategies and methods, relationships with clients and suppliers, work environment studies and outdoor trainings and experiential training on transversal skills such as leadership, creativity, entrepreneurship and time management, among others.

The Foundation also works on employment and employability projects linked to as the regional governments of the Region of Valencia and Galicia. The addressed users are unemployed of all ages, and also population at risk of social exclusion (ethnic minorities, victims of domestic violence, migrants, and low qualified young and elder workers). 

Web

www.fundacionequipohumano.es

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CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

The Center for Knowledge Management (CKM) is a research center established in 2008, with an aim of enhancing and improving knowledge management processes in all societal spheres in Republic of Macedonia and the SEE region. Covering a wide area of activities performed in collaboration with the civil sector, the state and public administration and the profit sector, CKM’s vision is to become an active actor in the institutional and economic development of the country, and the region in general. In particular of work, CKM’s activities can be classified in several areas:

• At macro level, CKM conducts research and analysis in the area of local, national, and regional development for the purpose of exploring current and proposing new policies, measures and projects in the area of economic development, science and technology, business enabling environment and entrepreneurship.
• At micro level, CKM works towards supporting technology transfer, innovation and competitiveness across the dominant industries and sectors in the country and the SEE region, with projects that support use of new technologies and enable the cooperation of the scientific institutions with other stakeholders in the society.
• At organizational level, CKM enables young people, start-ups, SMEs and other organizations in Macedonia to improve their innovation potential as well as their decision-making capacity – www.ilab.mk 

Web

www.knowledge-center.org

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