Green Digital

The Project

Partnership agreement Erasmus+ - KA220-VET Collaborative partnerships in vocational education and Training With respect to GRANT AGREEMENT Project No. 2025-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000359863 (CUP G71B25000270006) “D-Green - Digital sustainability for SMEs” Financing Program: ERASMUS+ Financing entity: Agenzia Nazionale ERASMUS+ INAPP

Green Digital – Improving the environmental sustainability of ICTs in companies is a Small Scale Cooperation Partnership in vocational education and training sector (KA210-VET) funded under the Erasmus+ Programme. 

The Digital Transition, strongly supported by European Commission Policy for the next years (EC Europe Fit for the Digital Age 2020, EC, Communication on the 2030 Digital compass, 2021), may collide with the European Green Deal (EC 2020), which, in line with the Paris Agreement, plans to reduce greenhouse gas (‘GHG’) emissions by at least 55% in 2030.

ICT is currently one of the fastest growing greenhouse gas-emitting and energy management sectors (EC, Rolling Plan for ICT standardisation, 2021).This project wants to reduce the environmental footprint of information and communication technologies used by companies in partner countries, by improving the effectiveness and sustainability of their ICTs’ implementation strategies.

The project will improve awareness of companies on the benefits of sustainable use of ICTs,by enhancing knowledge, skills and competencies of managers, workers and companies on how to implement ICTs in a more sustainable and effective way

Erasmus+ project, KA210-VET - Small-scale partnerships in vocational education and training

Title: GREEN DIGITAL - Improving the environmental sustainability of ICTs in companies

Project number: 2022-2-IT01-KA210-VET-000096922

Duration: 12 months

Project Start Date: 01 January 2023

Project End Date: 01 January 2024

Project subject: Digital Sustainability for Companies

Partners

LEARNABLE – Coordinator – Italy

ECECE – Partner1 – Austria

The Common ones – Partner2- Denmark

General objective

The GREEN DIGITAL aims at to reduce the environmental and social footprint of information and

communication technologies used by companies in partner countries, by improving the effectiveness and

sustainability of their ICTs’ implementation strategies.

Specific objectives

The project aims to:

- To improve awareness of companies on the benefits of sustainable use of ICTs

- To improve knowledge, skills and competencies of managers, workers and companies on how to implement

ICTs in a more sustainable and effective way.

Target groups

The target group includes entrepreneurs and managers working in any kind of company and, in particular,

those that are actually implementing massively ICT-based services, facilities or processes such as complex IT

systems, cloud services, digital production processes, making massive use and disposal of ICT.

This target group will also include employees and managers of companies which don’t actually have a high

level of digitalisation of their services, products, or practices, but want to start a digital transition process.

In particular, the project activities will be addressed to people employed in the following three areas:

a) e-skills: supporting companies implementing digital transition;

b) management systems: making internal processes more effective and efficient;

c) green practices: implementing sustainability strategies for ICT and energy use, consumption and

disposal.

Project results

1. The Green Digital Toolkit will consist in supporting materials and tools for managers and workers aiming

at implementing effective strategies for the sustainable use of ICTs.

2. The Green Digital Workshops will be training activities aiming at supporting workers and managers in

improving their knowledge, skills and competences for more sustainable and effective use of ICTs in

companies.

3. The Green Digital Launch Conference will be a face-to-face conference organised in each partner country

for promoting the project results and raising awareness about ICTs’ environmental sustainability for

companies. It will create Ambassadors who will act as multipliers in their companies.

Timetable

Activity Title Estimated start date Estimated end date

Green Digital Toolkit 01/01/2023 31/10/2023

Green Digital Workshops 01/07/2023 31/10/2023

Green Digital Launch Conference 01/10/2023 31/12/2023

Project activities

Activity Title Green Digital Toolkit

Task1 KICK-OFF MEETING in Italy (February 2023)

involving 2 members for each partner.

Task2 FOCUS GROUP involving at least 5 experts in

sustainability and company management in each

partner country will be organised.

It will aim at gathering feedback on the most

relevant areas for each country and defining

common areas that will be developed in the Toolkit.

Task3 TOOLKIT FRAMEWORK PRODUCTION describing

sections, materials and tools to be included will be

defined.

Task4 TOOLKIT PRODUCTION.

The Toolkit will be produced and translated into

English and in all the partners’ languages.

It will include the following contents and resources:

• ICTs ecological impact

• The benefits of ICTs sustainability actions

• Becoming an ICT sustainability manager:

the competences

• Tools and strategies for implementing ICTs

sustainability actions in companies

• The benefits and advantages for companies

• Case studies and best practices in partner

countries

Task5 TESTING METHODOLOGY PRODUCTION defining

timing, specific methodologies and tools will be

produced and agreed upon by the partners.

Task6 PILOT TESTING IMPLEMENTATION.

The Green Digital Toolkit will be tested during the

Green Digital Workshops with 15 workers and

managers in each partner country

.

Task

7 TOOLKIT ADJUSTMENT AND FINALISATION

.

The Green Digital Toolkit will be finalised based on

the feedback received during the Testing phases. It

will be published online in English and in all

partners’ languages.

Activity Title Green Digital Workshop

Task1 SECOND ONLINE TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT

MEETING (July 2023) involving 2 members for each

partner

.

Task

2 WORKSHOP FRAMEWORK DEFINITION: a set of

Learning Outcomes, described in terms of

knowledge, skills and competences will be defined

for the Green Digital Workshops.

Based on the learning outcomes highlighted, a

common framework for the workshops will be

defined describing the duration of the sessions,

contents and tools.

Task

3 SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS will be carried out at

the national level by each partner organisation

based on common criteria.

Task

4 WORKSHOPS DELIVERING.

In total, 2 Workshops and 1 Final session will be

organised online in all the partner countries and will

be based on the materials developed for the Green

Digital Toolkit.

Expected 15 workers and managers in each partner

country

.

The 3 different sessions will be organised in national

languages. They will last 4 hours each and will be

organised one month after the other so that the

participants can better explore the topics presented

and design concrete action plans.

Task

5 FOLLOW

-UP will be implemented through a final

test assessing the knowledge, skills and

competences achieved. Based on the test results,

the participants will receive a digital badge and a

certificate describing the competences achieved.

Activity Title Green Digital Launch Conference

Task1 THIRD TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING (October 2023) involving 2 members for each

partner.

Task

2 LAUNCH CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

PRODUCTION: a Conference Programme will be

elaborated describing topics, sessions and duration.

The programme will include the following topics: - Impact of ICTs (evidence and trends);

- Sustainable and effective implementation of ICTs

in companies;

- How to implement sustainable measures in

companies;

- The benefits for companies (reduction of costs,

visibility, competitive advantages, etc...);

- Testimonials and practical results from the Green

Digital Workshops;

- Good practices.

Task3 STAKEHOLDERS ANALYSIS AND ENGAGEMENT

STRATEGY will be defined by the leading partner

(P2) in order to identify relevant stakeholders at

national level and invite them.

The partners will create information materials and

publish some articles for promoting the event.

Task4 GREEN DIGITAL LAUNCH CONFERENCE DELIVERING:

the Green Digital Launch Conference will be

organised face to face in all the partner countries in

order to raise awareness of ICT sustainability in

companies. Expected 20 workers, managers or

companies in each partner country.

It will include presentations, interactive sessions

and practical demonstrations. The conference aims

at creating Green Digital Ambassadors committed

to sharing the project results and sensitising

companies on the impact of the ICTs.

Task5 FOLLOW-UP: a follow-up procedure will be

implemented in order to evaluate the quality and

usefulness of the Conference.

To all the participants will be delivered a Green

Digital Ambassador Badge

Activity Title Dissemination

Task1 Production of the "Visual brand identity" (logo,

colours and graphics) (January – March 2023)

Task2 Production of the project leaflet (in English and all

partner languages) (February – March 2023)

Task3 Creation and maintenance of the official project

website (in English and all partner languages)

(February – December 2023)

Task4 Creation and maintenance of a Facebook and other

social media (February – December 2023)

Task5 Creation of a periodical E-Newsletters (May –

October 2023)

Task6 Creation of a Digital Ambassador Badge to be

delivered during the Green Digital Workshops and

Green Digital Launch Conferences (September –

December 2023).

Partners’ responsibilities

Learnable (COO) will be responsible for the financial, communication and monitoring aspects. It will host the

face-to-face kick-off meeting in Italy and organise the 2 online transnational project meetings.

ECECE (P1) will be the leading partner for QUALITY ASSURANCE. All the partner organisations will have a

QUALITY MANAGER working at local, national and international level on quality assurance activities.

The Common ones (P2) will lead the DISSEMINATION process. From the very beginning of the project, a

strategy will be formalised, pointing to appropriate dissemination channels to be used, activities to be carried

out for each major stage of the project and reporting system. Each partner will have a DISSEMINATION

MANAGER responsible for the dissemination activities carried out during the project’s lifespan and make

available resources and networks to reach target groups and stakeholders.

All the project partners will be involved and give a contribution to the following activities:

- Green Digital Toolkit Production - Learnable (COO), supported by all the project partners, will be the leading

partner of this activity.

- Green Digital Workshops - ECECE (P1) will lead the planning and implementation of the workshops. All the

partners will implement the workshops at the national level.

- Green Digital Launch Conference - The Common Ones (P2) will be the leading partner of this activity. It will

be supported by all the partners.

- participate in monthly online meetings and in the 3 coordination meetings to monitor project activities.

- take part in the pilot testing phase involving the target groups at the local level.

- ensure strong involvement of target groups and local stakeholders.

- work at local, national and EU levels on dissemination activities.