November 2023

On 2 and 3 November, the first transnational meeting was held in Cadiz (Spain). During the first day of work, the team discussed the TREE Project’s aims, specific objectives, targets, activities and expected results, agreeing on the need to better define the area in which transnational green skills will be investigated. The team consists of AdIM Srl-Mediterranean Information Agency, as promoter and leader as lead partner, and two European partners:– AiNP -Agencia Internacional Newproject based in Cádiz and Valencia (Spain), which focuses on socio-educational projects and Social Innovation with the development of applications, ideas, concepts, products, services, methodologies and practices that contribute to bringing about changes in society in a collaborative way with the business environment;– Zeus Consulting IKE based in Palaio Faliro and Thessaloniki (Greece), which offers consultancy services in the fields of technology, information technology, regional development, employment, innovation, environment, management and international collaborations, with particular expertise in the implementation and technical support of European Union programmes and initiatives in these areas.Rafael Candon and Inna Nikushina of AiNP -Agencia Internacional Newproject, as lead partners in the activity of drafting the Manual of Good Practices, presented a proposal on how to design the Manual, agreeing with the other partners to carry out research, each on its own national territory, on the offer and provision of VET (Vocational Education and Training) training courses that include the acquisition of transversal green skills. Luciano Mattina from AdIM Srl – Mediterranean Information Agency, with the masterful support of Irene Aprile, main partner in the communication and dissemination activity, illustrated the project’s communication strategy and quality plan. Zeus Consulting IKE, represented on this occasion by Konstantinos Voukydis, who was mainly involved in the design of the situational scenarios within the framework of the training course to be held in the next phase of the project, contributed to the planning of the preparatory activities for the drafting of the Manual.The team discussed the three different moments of the Handbook’s implementation:– Desk research, by the end of January 2024;– National workshop, February to end of March 2024;– Interviews, April to May 2024. After the research, each partner will organise a national online workshop to involve experts, companies or professionals and learn, through subsequent interviews,  about the bestpractices already implemented aimed at reducing the environmental impact and improving the green skills of their workers (waste management, reducing water supply, reducing energy consumption and supply).On the basis of this research activity, a first draft of the Handbook will be drafted and examined during the second transnational meeting to be held in the first half of June in Greece at the premises of the partner Zeus Consulting IKE. The second day of this first transnational meeting began with a short tour of the lovely city of Cadiz, kindly offered by Rafael Candon, President of AiNP -Agencia Internacional Newproject, at the end of which the team reconvened to listen to a brilliant talk by Antonio J. Albarràn, consultant and environmental educator, sustainability expert and manager of the company ‘Ciconia – Consultores Ambientales’, and focus on specific projects and green skills in the areas of work and training.

During the first meeting in Spain, hosted by Newproject, the TREE Project partners will discuss the aims, objectives and areas of intervention, as well as the budget distribution and reporting rules. Newproject will present a handbook on best practices and desk research, with discussions on workshops and the handbook format. Topics related to communication, dissemination and the logo of the project will also be addressed. In addition, the Quality Assurance Plan (QA) and questionnaires to monitor the cooperation and quality of the project will be discussed. Planning of the first meeting of the TREE Project: Objectives, Budget and Quality Assurance It was agreed that during the first online meeting there will be a first face-to-face meeting between the partners in Spain, at the Newproject headquarters. It is expected that after an initial reception, the aims, specific objectives and areas of intervention, Targets, activities and expected results of the TREE Project will be illustrated. Within the team, as mentioned, three agencies take part: AdIM, Newproject and Zeus Consulting. In addition, each participant will have to bring his own presentation of these ideas, purposes, then debate with the others. It will also be necessary to discuss the distribution of the budget they have, the general rules for reporting the national agencies of the three countries and the creation of a timesheet. Again, Newproject will show its idea about the creation of the manual on best practices, illustrating its idea on the desk research to be carried out, on the recipients of this, on what are the contents and on any workshops to be included. Finally, we will then discuss the format that the manual should take, which then takes the configuration of a summary of the research. The manual will then take a very important place in the discussions that will also take place in subsequent face-to-face meetings, since its use is an important objective of the project. We will also talk about objectives, timing and tools (methods) for internal communication and external dissemination, after which we will share the graphic proposals for the project logo to be included in the website. previously formulated by the teams. It is also expected that there will also be experts and who will speak on issues related to sustainability and green skills. Another point on which it was planned to discuss is that relating to the Quality Assurance Plan (QA), which AdIM has sent. The contributions of the other two partners will therefore be considered to integrate them into the draft plan, which will also include questionnaires about the quality of cooperation and satisfaction between the partners monitored over time. A final point to be discussed will be the question of the indicators to be used to monitor the quality and effectiveness of the activities and the results achieved from it.