C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S.! JOINT STAFF TRAINING EVENT BY PIM – 3rd press release

On 07/10/2021

The C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. project (Exchanging good practices to Change Household Attitudes for a Non-wasteful, Green environment and Energy-consciousness addressing Rural Seniors) has completed the first Joint Staff Training event planned in the project and undertaken by Projects in Motion Ltd. The event was held online on 28th, 30th and 31st August 2021, bringing together eleven attendees […]

C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. Methodology Development Accomplished – Second Press Release

On 19/07/2021

The C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. project (Exchanging good practices to Change Household Attitudes for a Non-wasteful, Green environment and Energy-consciousness addressing Rural Seniors) has finalised the methodology of the short-term joint staff trainings planned in the project. The partnership of the C.H.A.N.G.E.R.S. project held its online kick-off meeting on 26th November 2020 and met again virtually in April […]

Smart Your Home comes to an end

On 30/06/2021

In the context of activities related to adult education, which see Eurocrea Merchant at the centre of many project initiatives under the Erasmus+ Programme, a special mention is given to “Smart Your Home”, which these days is heading towards the epilogue after almost three years of work. Led by the German Research Institute ILI, a […]

How SINE tackles sex education in the sector of disability in Europe?

On 04/03/2021

Sex education has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “the action of promoting the achievement of a state of psychosexual well-being by an individual“. Among its main reasons, the WHO recognizes the right of all human beings to be informed about sexual rights, in order to achieve the highest level of sexual […]

EGGS Serious Game – Learn how to prevent food waste!

On 15/01/2021

We are glad to announce our participation in the development of EGGS Serious Game! EGGS (StudEnts fight food and packaging waste throuGh entrepreneurial education and Game-baSed learning) is a European project funded under the framework of Erasmus+ programme and it aims to increase the sense of initiative and the entrepreneurial spirit of students (11-15 years […]

Food waste: What can we do about it?

On 15/12/2020

Food waste is generated all along the food supply chain, from the stages of production to consumption. Currently, there is no common definition of food waste and it can be measured in many different ways. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food waste can be defined as: “the decrease […]

Being an entrepreneur: having bright ideas but not only

On 21/07/2020

We live in a time in which everything is changing quickly. It can make things complicated for a young entrepreneur who recently launches its business on the market. Being an entrepreneur doesn’t only require to have bright ideas. An entrepreneur has to know how to manage an all business: its team, the commercial and financial […]

INQUAL – TEST OUR FREE ONLINE TRAINING COURSE WITH US!

On 07/07/2020

The IN-QUAL project is the result of a European partnership committed to Supporting entrepreneurship education providers in the improvement of their quality management systems; Promoting an EU-wide culture of quality based on EQAVET standards. Over the past year, we have conducted extensive research in quality management for VET/EE providers and we have distilled the results into an online training course for […]

My experience as a Remote Intern

On 22/06/2020

When I first started my internship in Milan back in January, little did I know that I would spend most of my internship in my home country working from home. Before the COVID-19 crises started I was at the beginning of my internship period with Eurocrea Merchant / European Digital Learning Network. I had decided […]

Developing an entrepreneurial mindset while working

On 26/05/2020

While working for a company as an intern or doing an apprenticeship and studying at the same time, some students are developing more than skills: their entrepreneurial mindset! More often young people are growing it at the same time as establishing ideas for a project or discovering how innovative concepts could be set in the future. […]

European enterprises active in social entrepreneurship initiatives

On 16/04/2020

In today’s societies, social entrepreneurship is implementing various enterprises. Young people are more and more involved in causes to bring help to others with their skills. Social entrepreneurship is important to face challenges by including valuable economic, environmental and social initiatives. According to the OCDE, social entrepreneurship is “the entrepreneurship that has as main goal to address […]

Becoming a young entrepreneur in Europe

On 31/03/2020

The creation of an enterprise is not an easy plan. Building a company requires many competencies such as creativity, business management, branding, marketing, sales, finance and other skills to develop a business at its best. In some higher education European universities, students can find support to develop their ideas and to start a business. Entrepreneurship […]

Social innovation and social entrepreneurship

On 10/03/2020

“Social innovation means developing new ideas, services and models to better address social issues. It invites input from public and private actors, including civil society, to improve social services.” – European Commission In other terms, social innovation is the actions that individuals can put in place to boost, develop, make better and change social issues. This […]

Ethics for computer science students

On 25/02/2020

The ethic is referring to “all the moral principles or values that are held by a culture, group, or individual, including concepts of right and wrong, rules of conduct, or the like.” – Wordreference dictionary 2020 Why including Ethics in Computer Science studies? Ethics in technology and the digital age is covering personal information and data of […]

Furniture market in Europe

On 12/02/2020

The furniture sector is a promising and fast-growing one in Europe due to its dynamism, the capacity to innovate new design, create things by uniting several topics as new technologies, culture, and style. It can be an appealing industry for workers who are seeking for productive activity in constant change and a labour-intensive business. As […]

ICT for European seniors

On 28/01/2020

Between 2016 and 2060, the share of people over 65 will grow from 19.3% to 29.0% of the total population. The percentage of people over 80 will more than double to 12.1%. As the number of older people is increasing in Europe, we must ensure that their living quality is not decreasing. In this sense, […]

Quality Assurance, Entrepreneurship Education and VET in Europe

On 14/01/2020

“The European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQAVET Framework) is designed to promote better vocational education and training by providing authorities with common tools for the management of quality. “- EQAVET This framework has different characteristics: includes the need for regular monitoring (involving internal and external evaluation mechanisms) and reporting on progress; uses common quality criteria […]

Empowerment of women in the ICT & IT worlds

On 17/12/2019

Depuis quelques années, les secteurs des TIC sont en plein essor. La révolution numérique a pris une place fondamentale dans notre vie professionnelle et personnelle et nécessite des compétences techniques. Selon le Parlement européen, le secteur des TIC est un “secteur en croissance qui crée 120 000 nouveaux emplois chaque année”. Cependant en 2017, […]

The challenge of employability in Europe

On 10/12/2019

European economic growth and jobs have been facing several crises during the last years. In 2010, the European Commission established the Europe 2020 strategy. Its purpose is to “improve Europe’s competitiveness and productivity and underpin a sustainable social market economy.“. The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) have been placed at the heart of the strategy to raise […]

Educating young entrepreneurs to planet protection

On 26/11/2019

The planet is suffering from human behaviour for a long time. In Europe and around the world, the engagement of young people for the planet is increasing. They are becoming activist and change their behaviour to: reduce food waste, using less plastic in their daily life, fight for the climate and more Moreover, the young […]

Water footprint awareness

On 12/11/2019

We use water every single day, differently, and for a different purpose and a different volume of it. Are you aware of the amount of “fresh water” you use per month? To cook and drink, to wash your clothes and the dishes, to clean your house and your car? The quantity of water we use […]

Entrepreneurship skills for University students

On 29/10/2019

Entrepreneurship is the process to create a company. It refers to the organization of a business, all the actions to develop the ideas which will make the company grow to make a profit. It is crucial to have a strong vision of the future of the enterprise and a passion for the sector of activity […]

Social Innovations

On 15/10/2019

Social innovations are practices that intend to reach social needs. They are new solutions that aim to transform the social system in a better way. The social innovations can be present in any sort of system such as organization, institution, education, health, management of a company and more. The main goal of social innovation is […]

Smart homes for smart senior people

On 25/06/2019

Intelligent homes to ease seniors’ life Is domotics easing seniors’ life? Well, of course yes! Domotics, i.e. a set of all technological and automatic systems applied to houses and buildings, represents one of the best innovations to improve and ease our daily life, especially for seniors. This is true particularly for Italy, which is considered […]

Make your home smarter with SmartyourHome

On 25/01/2019

In October 2018, a project co-financed by the Erasmus plus Programme, has officially started: SmartyourHome. It involves five partners from different European countries: Germany – coordinators of the Strategic Partnership –, Ireland, Romania, Italy, and Spain. As the title solely suggests, SmartyourHome is about domotics, along with all the technologies and innovative features which are […]

E-COMMERCE AND DIGITAL MARKETING IN EUROPE

On 16/10/2018

In the last 5 years e-commerce in Europe has seen a constant and impressive growth; according to data, in 2017 the turnover of online purchases increased by 11% and is expected to grow by 13% in 2018, making it worth 602 billion euros. This double digit increase gives us an idea of the fully unexplored […]

3rd B-CAPP Project Meeting in Milan!

On 08/10/2018

Eurocrea Merchant has been pleased to host the 3rd Transnational Meeting for the B-CAPP project, held in Milan the last 4th of October. Surrounded by the rural yet lively frame of Cascina Cuccagna, an old farmstead close to the city center, renovated and re-qualified as a place for meetings and events, the project partners shook […]

OPEN INNOVATION AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

On 02/10/2018

The skills in the field of international development and the resources available are often not sufficient or adequate to face a correct selection of the different available technologies, nor to implement viable solutions directly applied in every context in each country around the world. In the areas of development cooperation intervention, the constraints are more […]

SILVER WORKERS – transform your hobbies in start-up!

On 16/07/2018

The Silver Workers Project is an initiative funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme under the Key Action 2 “Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices” – Strategic Partnership in the VET field. It promoted and developed by a partnership in representation of 5 different European Countries: Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Spain and UK. The project focus […]

BOSS4SME, A FORNITURE E-COMMERCE NEW EXPERIENCE

On 16/07/2018

The furniture sector is one of the most competitive sectors of the wester economy, especially for those enterprises that are able to innovate and to catch new opportunities in the market. The market profit in 2017 was around 425 billion dollars. The countries import the most are: USA, Germany, United Kingdom and France. While, the […]

Financial literacy for Millennials

On 14/07/2018

The project ‘INVEST Financial & Forecasting models for Entrepreneurs’ aims to develop a training model and tools to support micro- entrepreneurs, especially those pertaining to generation Y (aged 18-34), to make responsible economic, financial and investment choices, not only for business but also personal finance. Ultimately, the project seeks to boost the financial literacy in […]

CEDEFOP LAUNCHES A NEW DATABASE ON EUROPEAN POLICIES FOR APPRENTICESHIP

On 11/07/2018

Apprenticeship policies are one of the key drivers of the European employment strategy the Commission is pushing to strenghten, with the objective to reach the targeted employment rate of 75% by 2020 and fight early school leaving. In order to reach this objective, on 5 June CEDEFOP (European Centre for Development of Vocational Training) has […]

Why become a responsible tourism company? Find out! READ ABOUT OUR CORRIE PROJECT!

On 08/07/2018

Tourism is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing economic sectors, 1.1 billion tourists travelled internationally. Europe is the most visited region, with over half of the world’s international tourists, However, mass tourism has a lot of negative impact including: Pollution and noise, Depletion of natural resources, Leakage of money and Loss of local […]

HILLARY EU PROJECT, NEWS ABOUT

On 08/07/2018

Do you know how to combine female entrepreneurship, studies in humanities and crowd-sourcing? In the EU women constitute 52% of the total European population but only 34.4% of the EU self-employed and 30% of start-up entrepreneurs. Female creativity and entrepreneurial potential are an underexploited source of economic growth and jobs that should be further developed[1]. Hillary, the Online Community to Foster Female Entrepreneurship, […]

ST BANK EU PROJECT, LATEST NEWS

On 05/07/2018

Developing and promoting entrepreneurship education has been one of the key policy objectives for the EU and Member States for many years. There is a growing awareness of the potential of young people to launch and develop their own commercial or social ventures thereby becoming innovators in the areas in which they live and work. […]

EE FASHION. What’s EQAVET and why it important?

On 03/07/2018

EQAVET is the European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training and it is necessary to provide quality assurance in European VET systems. By the end of the year two important events have been organized to support a culture of quality assurance throughout the EU, in particular: The EQAVET Forum 2018 will take place in […]

Silver Code – New opportunities among generations at EU level

On 03/07/2018

Who says that technology, ICT, and digital competences are exclusive to young people? Those matters are not only accessible to every age group, but they can also be very helpful and highly educational even for the elderly. And unlike what one might commonly think, young and elder people may mutually benefit from an integration of […]

FOOD SAFETY IN THE FUTURE EU BUDGET (2021-2027)

On 20/06/2018

The proposed new Single Market Programme food policy will tackle human, animal and plant protection Time for budgeting at the European Commission: the incumbency of the 2020 term urges the approval of a new long term budget for the 2021-2027 period! The document, unveiled in June, presents ambitious proposals such as the establishment of […]

Women Power Code: a new press release

On 26/04/2018

Here you are with our first press release of the WPC project. Have a look and read it carefully, to train vulnarable people to get included in the new IT society! https://womenpowercode.eu/news/we-have-released-our-first-press-release

ASSISTANT PROJECT OFFICER IN EUROCREA: HAVE A LOOK, WE ARE RECRUITING!

On 09/04/2018

We are looking for 1 project officer to be included in our Milan premises. The officer will be involved in the implementation of European projects. The main commitment will be to support the Project Manager in managing ongoing projects. The main area of interest is Education & Training. Reference EU funding programs (non-exhaustive): ERASMUS +, […]

The latest from some of our ongoing projects: read more!

On 30/03/2018

BOSS4SME will develop the European Furniture and household Sector through development of the Online Sales Manager profile, a professional capable of devising e-Commerce strategies for increasing revenues from cross-border sales through utilisation of the Internet as a sales channel. Visit our website for more information: http://boss4sme.com/ in Italian, Polish, Spanish and Greek. The official website […]

CALL FOR PARTNERS AND UNIVERSITIES – ERASMUS + 2018, KA2, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

On 23/02/2018

We’re looking for a series of partners and universities in Europe for our proposals under Erasmus+ strategic partnership – deadline 21th March, 2018. Please, have a look to these tables: SEARCH FOR PARTNERS https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UisjqBRsloj2-p6O8vhrsowSmOeiRc83_TKQVgbd6U4/edit?usp=sharing SEARCH FOR UNIVERSITIES https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bYCg2lDkeZZRmTGc87jTBSqHY_oLRRRQEUhVNIKemzU/edit?usp=sharing If you find a role you might fit with or if you know someone among your network […]

Copyright reform

On 09/02/2018

Copyright affects education. It determines the extent to which a teacher may use, share or readjust any material made by someone else. In some cases, there is a special exception to copyright for education in the European Union. Unfortunately, there are still many things teachers do that are not allowed: European countries have implemented the […]

#Erasmusx10

On 30/01/2018

Let’s say it: Erasmus+ is changing the life of 4 million people. It is a great number, but not enough! That number is growing through the allocation of a small percentage of the overall EU budget (1.4%) in the work programme 2014-2020. Four million correspond at 0,8 percent of European citizens.Why not allocate more economic […]

Digital skills and education a continuous transformation

On 30/01/2018

EU is in a turning point for what concerns digital transformation. Europeans currently face the following challenges: Digital Skills Shortage: The ICT sector accounts for 5% of employment in the EU and there will be 900,000 vacancies in the Digital sector by 2017, representing a clear need to increase the quantity of graduates with these […]

NEWS CORRIE EU project

On 26/01/2018

Are you an SME in the tourist sector and you want to increase your RESPONSIBLE IMAGE and build up a community of responsible SMEs? Today is your lucky day! On the 25th January 2018, the CORRIE partners met in Belfast (Northern Ireland) to finalize the project results and to make them available on the […]

PRESS RELEASE – BOSS4SME project – Boosting Online cross-border Sales

On 19/01/2018

Eurocrea Merchant is pleased to share the following update on one of our on-going projects, BOSS4SME, Boosting Online cross-border Sales , active since 2016. The European project BOSS4SME, led by CENFIM – Furnishing Cluster and Innovation Hub, is preparing a training course so that the “Online Sales Managers” from furniture and home interior sector companies […]

Aquapath presented during CIBUS, the most important Italian fair dedicated to food

On 20/07/2016

Last 11th of May, Eurocrea Merchant attended a workshop in the framework of the wider event CIBUS – the most important Italian fair dedicated to Italian food. The workshop has been organized to disseminate the results of another Erasmus+ project, in which Eurocrea is partner. During the workshop Eurocrea presented the results developed through Aquapath […]

ERASMUS PLUS 2016

On 29/02/2016

Do you know the recipe of a successful proposal? A unique mix of 1. Long experience; 2. Wide network to ensure adequate impact; 3. Comunication skills and synergies to reach the right dissemination 4. Quality in the implementation of project activities Do you need all of that for your projects? Eurocrea Merchant can […]

European Project Management: TIPS and TRICKS

On 09/07/2015

Who is the European Project Manager? The European project manager is the expert on European programs and design techniques devoted to European fundraising. The European project management may encompass both public authorities (ministries, universities, municipalities, etc.) and private organizations (business companies, associations, foundations, etc.) A European Project Manager can be both a consultant/specialist or a […]