SOCIALSME - Sustainability and social responsibility through learning in SME

Aim

The project aims to develop a package of methodological and practical guidelines for a sustainable, corporate social responsibility (CSR) oriented business strategy development in SME on the basis of transfer of experiences from the projects COSORE, Work&Lean and FILIP. This strategy will use organizational and individual learning as the main method to address deficiencies, challenges and opportunities in SME’s.

After the SME analysis regarding CSR needs accomplished in every country, the methodology for CSR initiatives will be developed and adapted in partners’ languages (Bulgarian, Cyprian, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish and Portuguese) and tested in each country.

Taking into consideration the feedback collected from the testing phase, the project will yield a comprehensive on-line handbook for SME’s consultants that will provide methodologies for developing the interplay between a comprehensive sustainable business strategy and a comprehensive learning system in SME, namely a Balanced Scorecard approach to develop the CSR business strategy in SME’s.

Specific aims

• To identify SME learning needs in CSR in every country in order to adequate the project products to each national situation;
• To prepare a package of methodology to develop learning initialized by CSR concerns for SME in English and to adapt this package in other languages according to the needs of the respective transfer partners (Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Polish, Spanish, Romanian, Latvian, Portuguese);
• To test the adapted CSR learning concept in SME’s from Poland, Bulgaria, Spain, Lithuania, Romania, Latvia, Cyprus and Portugal;
• To produce a package for CSR related learning development in SME’s addressed to SME’s consultants;
• To disseminate and valorize the project products in each country.

Partnership

Promoter:

Kaunas University of Technology, Economics and Management Faculty (Lithuania)
Website: http://www.ktu.lt
Contact: Aušra R?telion? (arondom@ktu.lt)

Partners:

Centro de Formação Profissional para o Comércio e Afins – Vocational Training Centre for the Trade (Portugal)
Website: http://www.cecoa.pt
Contact: Vanda Vieira (vanda.vieira @cecoa.pt)

ISOB GmbH (Alemanha)
Website: http://www.isob-regensburg.net
Contact: Alexander Krauß (krauss@isob-regensburg.net)

National Association of Small and Medium Business – NASMB (Bulgarian)
Website: http://www.nasmb-bg.org
Contact: Alexi Alexov (nasmb.bg@gmail.com)

European University Cyprus (Cyprus)
Website: http://www.euc.ac.cy
Contact: Athanasios Hadjimanolis (ahadjim@cycollege.ac.cy)

Escuela de Negocios y Administracion de Empresas SA(Institucion Pau Casals) (Spain)
Website: http://www.paucasals.com
Contact: Fernando León (fernandoleonnunez@hotmail.com)

Wroclaw University of Economics (Poland)
Website: http://www.ae.wroc.pl
Contact: Grazyna Swiatowy (grazyna.swiatowy@ae.wroc.pl)

FiaTest (Romania)
Website: http://www.fiatest.ro
Contact: Carmen Balaban (proiecte@fiatest.ro)

Riga Technical University , Faculty of Engineering Economics (Latvia)
Website: http://www.ief.rtu.lv
Contactos: Elina Gaile-Sarkane (elina.gaile-sarkane@rtu.lv)

EKT Group (Lithuania)
Website: http://www.ekt.lt
Contact: Raimondas Paškevi?ius (raimondas@ekt.lt)

Kaunas Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts (Lithuania)
Website: http://www.chamber.lt
Contact: Daiva Vyšniauskien? (daiva.vysniauskiene@chamber.lt)

Products/Results

• Requirement analysis: State of art and identification of SME need and CSR learning situation in Portugal Report;
• The package of the methodology to develop CSR for SME’s;
• The project web site;
• The project brochure.

Duration
October 2008 – September 2010


Framework
Lifelong Learning Programme
Leonardo da Vinci Sub-Programme
Multilateral Projects - Transfer of Innovation


This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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