It’s ErasmusDays2023 and SwIdeas is excited to share what we have been doing in our projects

Projects on Environment and Climate Change

Our projects address the topic of sustainability through diverse perspectives, recognizing how broad this umbrella term has become.

We can start talking about Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG), a term that is increasingly important both for SMEs and entrepreneurs. This is due to the priorities related to the EU Green Deal and an increased focus on sustainable finance. This makes ESG criteria fundamental for investors, as well as due to reporting requirements on sustainability as outlined by the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Addressing this issue, through the ESG-UP project our team has collaborated with the partners to develop 10 lessons on diverse topics within the sustainability framework as well as a self-assessment that enables SMEs and entrepreneurs to assess the sustainable performance of ESG strategies. We have also collected a set of 120 best practices that can inspire other SMEs and entrepreneurs to make efforts towards improving their performance in ESG. At the moment, we are organizing the testing of this material. If this is interesting for you, you can register to the training through our website.

Moving on the Circular Economy, SwIdeas is partnering with partners in Lithuania and Germany on the re:GREEN project to develop and deliver training for entrepreneurs based in rural areas to better understand and incorporate circular principles and digitalization into their business models. The training will soon be tested with rural entrepreneurs in Sweden. Registration is open through our website.

Through the RELIEF project, our team is working on the topic of bioeconomy, collaborating for the development of a curriculum for higher education and vocational education and teaching institutions. The goal is to develop and deliver an innovative approach for teaching bio-economy in farming, by developing specific learning?resources addressing higher education institutions (HEIs) students and farming practitioners.

Finally, through the ECOLitAct project our team is addressing the topic of misinformation and disinformation and the impact they have on environmental information and climate denialism. To counter this issue, the consortium has developed 20 Open Educational Resources and 5 learning scenarios which are being collected in a Toolkit. The goal is to promote environmental education and awareness raising by building the capacity of people to better filtrate the information they read online and have a critical view to avoid misinformation. The Toolkit will soon be ready and reviewed by educators in vocational education and teaching institutions to collect feedback for improvement. We are currently collecting interest from educators to have first-hand access to our material and help us improve it.

Project on Social Inclusion

For starters, the Feeling Home project targets migrant women and language teachers. The project has been an incredible opportunity for the participating women to feel a sense of belonging and get to know more about Malm? while learning Swedish. Although many of them have been living in Malm? for years, our team heard from many of them that they had never been to several of the places where we organized our outings. We were happy to see the impact of this project so far on the participants. As a result of these activities, the participating migrant women are currently completing the last draft of the city guide of Malm? which has been the main task in the task-based language learning activity and which they have been working on throughout the project timeline. Our team has finalized the curriculum on informal language learning which is targeting language teachers or anyone working with migrants or vulnerable groups. You can also see the experiences of the participants in the project’s documentary.

The Maps of Positive Experiences Project also focuses on language teachers. Within this project, after the training of trainers on positive methodologies for language learning that took place in June in Bilbao, partners are now working on finalizing the local training sessions for language teachers, including digital upskilling sessions. The aim is for language teachers to develop new skills and knowledge on methodologies that create a positive learning environment for the students.

The CONsider your skills for VOLUnTeering (CONVOLUT) Project targets citizens in the beginning of retirement. Through this project, we’ve developed a tool called the ProfilPASS CONVOLUT and supporting material for the target group to identify competencies that can be used for volunteering in preparation for retirement. This tool guides retirees through a reflection process on their own skills that they can use in volunteer work. Our team has held a training for counsellors on how to use the ProfilPASS and supporting material and just finished testing the material with retirees in September. We are now collecting feedback to improve the material.

Youth Projects

On the topic of misinformation and fake news, SwIdeas has a different project that addresses the topic in relation to health and wellbein. During the Infodemics project, we investigated this topic and developed a Research Report with important reflections on the matter. The report highlights that young people’s mental and physical health can be affected by misinformation, not only because they can find wrong information and therefore follow inaccurate and/or prejudicial health advice, but also because being exposed to the online environments and their risks can cause feelings such as stress, depression and even encourage negative behaviours and addictions. As a result of this, the Consortium developed a MOOC course with 13 lessons which are open to everyone to learn more about the topic. The course is designed as an online platform and will allow you to improve your digital competences and media literacy knowledge, especially regarding health and well-being. To guide your learning trajectory however, learners can take our self-assessment to assess your competences. Finally, if you’re a youth worker or teacher and would like to expand your knowledge about media and information literacy and about e-health literacy, you can check out our toolkit. Both the self-assessment tool and the MOOC course have been inspired by the DigComp 2.2 Framework of the European Commission.

Through the YoungCultentrepreneurs project, we are aiming to support youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) to start their entrepreneurship path as cultural and creative entrepreneurs. So far, we developed a Handbook for Youth Workers that provides them with information, tools, and ideas for better supporting youth on achieving the proposed goal. Besides, we developed a training course directed to young people that intends to support them in making their first steps towards building their entrepreneurship business plan.

If you are a young person between 18 and 29 years old and you would like to become a cultural and creative entrepreneur, you can join our course which is taking place on the 24th, 25th and 30th of October in a hybrid mode. You can register on our website:

Finally, the #WeCoLead project recently ended. The goal of this project was to explore the power of young women to act as leaders in the promotion of green and #sustainablepractices as well as in #genderequality. Within the project, we created 14 reels and developed a Toolkit with young women through a collaborative process. We also developed an e-booklet for youth workers which investigates theories such as ecofeminism and provides activities to be used with young women.