Project overview
Valuable materials are leaking from our economies. In a world where demand and competition for finite and sometimes scarce resources will continue to increase, and pressure on resources is causing greater environmental degradation and fragility, Europe can benefit economically and environmentally from making better use of those resources. Since the industrial revolution, our economies have developed a ‘take-make-consume and dispose’ pattern of growth — a linear model based on the assumption that resources are abundant, available, easy to source and cheap to dispose of. It is increasingly being understood that this threatens the competitiveness of Europe.
Moving towards a more circular economy is essential to deliver the resource efficiency agenda established under the EU2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The Circular economy offers an opportunity to reinvent our economy, making it more sustainable and competitive.
With this new plan to make Europe’s economy cleaner and more competitive, the EC is delivering ambitious measures to cut resource use, reduce waste and boost recycling. Higher and sustained improvements of resource efficiency performance are within reach and can bring major economic benefits. The EC adopted an ambitious Circular Economy Package, which includes revised legislative proposals on waste to stimulate Europe’s transition towards a circular economy which will boost global competitiveness, foster sustainable economic growth and generate
new jobs.
Successful implementation can create more than 180000 direct jobs in the EU by 2030, in addition to the estimated 400000 jobs that will be created by the implementation of the waste legislation in force. It will lead to satisfying between 10 and 40% of the raw material demand in the EU, while contributing to achieving the 2030 EU target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40%.
In this context, CICLO visions the development of an interactive, needs-oriented online Circular Economy labor market ecosystem and skills mapping and provide a training package for employed and unemployed persons to equip them with basic circular economy jobs skills related to recycling management, reuse and remanufacturing opportunities, servitisation (services instead of products) development.
CICLO and its training accredited partners will secure the recognition of skills and qualifications of CICLO participants based on the EQF, and the ECVET maximizing their potential for access to the labor market, social and financial integration and simultaneously offering new inclusive pedagogies in education.
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Objectives
Develop a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation among EU citizens
Support inclusive training initiatives and digital inclusion for all
Open and innovative education, training and youth work, embedded in the digital era
Provide an innovative ICT–based educational practice that will motivate the adults to commit in active learning
Transparency and recognition of skills and qualifications to facilitate learning, employability and labor mobility
Sustainable investment, performance and efficiency in education and training
Combine higher levels of excellence and attractiveness of training and education with increased opportunities for all, including those at disadvantage
Strengthening key competences in C-VET curricula and providing more effective opportunities to acquire or develop those skills through I-VET and C-VET
Enhancing access to training and qualifications through C-VET, by increasing the quality, supply and accessibility of C-VET, validation of non-formal and informal learning, and promoting work-place learning
Outcomes
IO1 Circular Economy Skills Ecosystem and Methodological Framework (eBook)
A presentation of the current and prospect shapes of circular economy ecosystem and skills upgrade through ICT tools to potential and current professionals in the market and to discuss the gaps in these fields and the needs of the target groups in the partner countries and the EU.
IO2 Curriculum and VET Toolbox of Key Skills Acquisition Resources
Development of a needs-oriented online Circular Economy labor market ecosystem and skills mapping Curriculum, and provide a training package for employed and unemployed EU citizens to equip them with basic circular economy jobs skills related to recycling management, reuse and remanufacturing opportunities, servitisation (services instead of products) development, in order to access or empower their position in the labor market.
IO3 Multifunctional and Interactive Platform - Open educational & training e-resource
The platform will support the delivery of all online learning components of the project and will support online interactive tools such as forums, blogs, social networking applications and chat rooms while it will also be combined with the project’s website. The platform will be accessible via a mobile application as well.
IO4 Skills Assessment, Validation and Recognition Tools
Develop of a package of tools for trainers, educators and employers in order to assess, validate and recognize the skills acquired through the provision of CICLO Training Toolbox to the target groups.
IO5 Infusion of the Circular Economy in the National and EU Economy – Adaption and Policy Package
The consortium will develop an on-line adaptation and policy package where it will provide specific guidelines to the CICLO stakeholders on how to integrate the CICLO training package in their normal training activities, how to utilize it as an VET component and how the modules and trainees be accredited based on the ECVET.
