Within the international project GREENTREPRENEURSHIP – Easier Done Than SAID project partners prepared a manual for greentrepreneurship and employability of youths.

The aim of the manual is to benchmark the term and the idea of Greentrepreunership. It is meant especially for young people, motivated to be and act green, that is why it wants to present and introduce the idea and the term and especially provide vocabulary and assessment methods to determine what a green business is.

The content:
ABOUT GREENTREPRENEURSHIP: the current situation, demography and resources, profit and Enviromental costs, GDP and inequality, sustainable development model
HOW TO BECOME A GREEN ENTREPRENEUR: How to develop a business idea? When a business idea is green? The competence model of a Greentrepreneur
EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICES
PRACTICAL TOOLS: Business plan development tool, assessment tool of green, usefull resources

MANUAL: click

The goal of the project GREENTREPRENEURSHIP – EASIER DONE THAN SAID is to develop skills, knowledge and competences of youths in order to improve their productivity and employability in the field of green entrepreneurship.

Within the  project  PiNA prepared the first of a series of short video presentations of Slovenian good practices in the field of green entrepreneurship.

The first video shows the path of philosophy of Renčelj Family business company from Povir village, Slovenia, which main activity is lavender production and other lavender products-cosmetics, tea, spices, liquor.

It won`t be wise to start the story of Renčelj company (pronounced »Renchel« in Slovenian) without the story of his owner and creator, Gregor. As a child, he loved to play in the nature where wild lavender grows and this sensation, the parfume, never leaved him. So, some years later, he decided to make of his passion and transform this sensation to a business adventure and became one of the first lavender producers in Slovenia.

Today, after 5 years of developping the business Renčelj company is in very good position to start earning a profit and have benefits for the first time from the beggining of the adventure. The company is not officially labelized ˝bio˝ but according to its owner ˝Our lavender fields in the heart of nature˝ are not ˝subject to any chemical influences˝. What is one of the forces of the company, it is the natural, clean process of production.

More about Family Renčelj: web page / Facebook

The goal of the project GREENTREPRENEURSHIP – EASIER DONE THAN SAID is to develop skills, knowledge and competences of youths in order to improve their productivity and employability in the field of green entrepreneurship.

Reuse Centre Ltd., Social Enterprise is the first social enterprise in Slovenia, established in 2012, with main aim to solve environmental and social problems. Reuse Centre developed a new model for the implementation of socially responsible entrepreneurship in Slovenia which connects municipalities and public waste management companies, allowing the development of new green jobs and promoting resource savings in practice. Today it has 9 business units across the country.

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Experience of a participant Francesca Cuoco

Beja . 07 April – 14 April 2016.

Thirty young people from different countries (Portugal, Italy, Slovenia, Nepal, Argentine, Tanzania) have met for one week to learn more about green entrepreneurship and to discuss about different experiences and ideas on this interesting topic.

My name is Francesca and I took part, together with other 4 girls from Italy, in the international Training Course (TC) of the project “Greentrepreneurship – Easier done than said” held in Beja, Portugal.

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Are you interested in themes regarding entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability? Do you like to deal with young people? Would you like to take part in a mobility experience with participants coming from Italia, Portugal, Slovenia, Nepal, Tanzania and Argentina? We have an opportunity for you!

Within GREENTREPRENEURSHIP – Easier done than said, international project cofounded by the Erasmus+ Programme – KA2 Capacity building in the field of Youth, project partners are looking for participants for the international training course on green entrepreneurship that will take place in Beja, Portugal.

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Green entrepreneurship and youth: these are the key words of Greentrepreneurship (GREENE), a new 2-year Capacity Building project co-funded by European Commission (Erasmus +, Key Action 2 – Capacity building in the field of youth). The project involves 6 organizations from Europe, Asia and South of America: PiNA (Slovenia) as project coordinator, CESIE (Italy), CCN (Nepal), Fundaciòn SES (Argentina), TYCEN (Tanzania) and CHECK-IN (Portugal).

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