Mr. Filippo MAZZARIOL Project Manager European Commission Enterprise and Industry GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network Project Overview.

Mr. Filippo MAZZARIOLProject Manager

European CommissionEnterprise and Industry

GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network

Project Overview

GREEN supports the Enterprise Europe Network to provide 1st level environmental services to SMEs from the food industry and manufacturing of building materials sectors.

GREEN proposes a network of local systems to coordinate ESPs in order to give SMEs access to free and low cost environmental services, thanks also to the support of local administrations, SMEs associations and relevant value chain stakeholders.

The effectiveness of the local actions will be ensured by signing local cooperation agreements.

GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network

Summary

The strategic objectives of the GREEN project are:

• To contribute to the improvement of environmental performances of SMEs in Europe

• To support the Enterprise Europe Network in tackling environmental issues in the following specific economic sectors: food industry manufacturing of building materials

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Objectives

1. Unioncamere del Veneto - Italy2. Arad Chamber of Commerce and Industry- Romania3. Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Greece4. Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry5. Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia6. Plovdiv Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Bulgaria7. Chamber of Economy of Montenegro8. Technology Research Centre Osijek - Croatia9. MIR Foundation - Macedonia10. Mihailo Pupin Institute - Serbia11. Mersin Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Turkey

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Partners

GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network

Work flow

WP 1 – Preparatory Study

WP 4 - Environmental Service Provisioning

WP 2 - Service

Methodology and Local

Cooperation Agreements

WP 5

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WP 3 TRAINING

- GREEN Kick-off meeting in Venice, Italy on 10-11 June 2010

- Fact-sheet- Survey in progress- Project leaflet- Press releases- Methodology- Beta version of GREEN website

www.green-eu-net

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What has been done so far

- Survey finalisation- Reports on agro-food and building materials- More press releases- Methodology finalisation- Final version of GREEN website www.green-

eu-net VAC+ESP database- Dissemination and communication plan- 1st International workshop, 3-day training

session and 2nd project meeting in VENICE

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Next steps

GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network

Time planning

2010 2011 2012

Project phase / Duration of the project (in months) 6

(June)

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Work package 0: Management

Work package 1:

Preparatory study

Work package 2:

Service Methodology Local Cooperation Agreements

Work package 3:

Training

Training EEN

Training EEN

Training EEN

Work package 4:

Environmental Service Provisioning

Local Workshop

Local Workshop

Final Local Workshop

Work package 5: Communication and Dissemination and Networking

Ws Venice

Ws Arad

Final Conference

Project meetings a) X

IT

X

IT

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RO

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SI

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HR Coordinating Meetings at EACI

X X

Project reports to EACI PR IR

Project Webpage/site creation and update

X

Objectives • to obtain a state-of-the art picture of the current

Environmental measures supporting SMEs in the food industry and construction material sector

• to compare strengths and needs in the project areas• to evaluate current situation in the project areas and

provide inputs to local/regional/national/EU policy makers

• to have a first approach to both offer and demand of environmental services in the project areas

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WP1 – preparatory study

Objectives

• To create the basis for local cooperation with public authorities, SMEs and Environmental Service Providers:1 - strategy to establish partnerships2 - methodology for providing services

• To consolidate relationships with local Environmental Service Providers

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WP2 – Service methodology and local cooperation agreements

Objectives

• to enable EEN staff from partner regions to provide 1st level environmental services (2 training sessions: Italy and Slovenia)

• to share and enable EEN staff to implement the service methodology at local level

• to enable local ESPs to cooperate with EEN at local level

• to get EEN staff from regions outside GREEN project countries involved in 1st level service training sessions

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WP3 - training

Objectives

• To implement an environmental service strategy in the GREEN project regions

• To increase profitability of local SMEs• To improve environmental performances of local

SMEs• To expand local production to greener products

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WP4 – Environmental Services provisioning

Objectives

• To communicate and disseminate the knowledge generated by the project and all relevant knowledge available at EU level

• To create a communication platform at EU level for both SMEs and EEN members

• To exploit the results of the project after its lifecycle

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WP5 – Communication, dissemination and networking

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Dr. Filippo MAZZARIOLProject Manager

Unioncamere del Veneto – Eurosportello

Tel. +39-041-0999411Email: [email protected]

Via delle Industrie 19/D – Lybra Building – VEGA ParkI-30175 Venezia Marghera, Italy

Thanks for your attention!