Urban food systems and ecosystems (UFSE) demand immediate action. CITIES2030 innovative approach have a great opportunity to attract the best researchers, entrepreneurs, civil society leaders, cities and all agents of the UFSE as well. The main goal of CITIES2030 is to create a future proof and effective UFSE via a connected structure centered in the citizen, built on trust, with partners encompassing the entire UFSE. CITIES2030 commit to work towards the transformation and restructuring of the way systems produce, transport and supply, recycle and reuse food in the 21st century. CITIES2030 vision is to connect short food supply chains, gathering cities and regions, consumers, strategic and complement industry partners, the civil society, promising start-ups and enterprises, innovators and visionary thinkers, leading universities and research across the vast diversity of disciplines addressing UFSE, including food science, social science and big data. CITIES2030 actively encourage the participation of citizens by delivering a trusted UFSE, moving consumers from being passive recipients to active engagement and motivated change agents. This objective is achieved via multiple tools delivered by CITIES2030 such as the CRFS Alliance, a community of practice supported by a digital platform, reaching all over Europe and beyond. This approach will enable policy developments, innovation actions within result-driven Labs, and enhancements on a pan-European scope with a global reach. Cities and regions will improve resilience and sustainability, and their leadership will create short food supply chain and ecosystems enabling local investments, trans-borders and transnational deployment. A blockchain-based data-driven UFSE management platform will secure intelligence and coordination actions by delivering an accurate, almost real-time digital twin of the whole supply chain, e.g. from production to waste management, but also on key enablers of resilience and sustainability.

SINTRA – Achieving Sustainability through INTRApreneurship is a 2-year Erasmus+ KA2 adult education project, which aims at providing an integrated support, tailored to the needs of organisations for the development of intrapreneurship-related skills, competences and attitudes among both employees and employers for improving the organisations’ environmental impact and their social and business sustainability. Thus, the project proposal identifies employees and employers in organisations, operating in the business, civil or government sector as its target groups, who will be supported through the elaboration and validation of innovative integrated training tools and material to facilitate the development of intrapreneurial minds of employees and employers for enhancing the environmental, social and business sustainability of organisations at national and European level.SINTRA consortium comprises 7 partner organisations from 6 countries (Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece and Portugal), gathered around the idea that building capacity within organisations for gathering ideas and developing them further to intrapreneurial efforts for the modification of products, services and organisational processes has an enormous potential for sustainability impact.SINTRA sets the following objectives, reflected in the main intellectual outputs to be produced and results achieved under the project:1. Better understanding of national and sectoral contexts in the field of environmental, social and economic sustainability from an intrapreneurial perspective and identification of existing gaps in the intrapreneurial mindset at organisational level.2. Elaboration of an innovative training methodology, tools and material, combining the processes of sustainability-focused intrapreneurial training and counselling in a single, integrated approach, in order to enhance the environmental impact of organisations and their social and business sustainability.3. Address the needs of organisations by delivering pilot sustainability-oriented workshops and counselling services, which will enhance intrapreneurial efforts, that might eventually lead to the development/modification of new/existing products and services and the improvement of existing processes.4. Transfer the project effects to other countries through the set-up of an e-Learning Platform and the creation of an open innovation toolkit (incl. an online app) for sustainability-focused intrapreneurship.The SINTRA project will systematically evolve, following elaborate research activities, to develop tailor-made training resources and establish an interactive e-Learning Platform and Open Innovation Toolkit, both targeted at sustainability-focused intrapreneurship support of employees, employers and their organisations across Europe. The overall project’s implementation is structured in 4 phases, corresponding to the delivery of the intellectual outputs, whereas these phases will be supplemented by multiplier events and project meetings.The project phases are reflected in the overall approach, to be used for the implementation of the project, which is based upon proven methodologies, using an investigation of Good Practices and Gap Analysis for accurate definition of the project framework in the 1st phase of the project (IO1), as well as building upon existing knowledge and success stories. These will eventually develop into: Innovative Training Material, incl. training curriculum, content and tools for sustainability-oriented intrapreneurial support of employees and employers in organisations (IO2-a); e-Learning Platform (IO3) and Open Innovation Toolkit for Sustainability-focused Intrapreneurship (IO4); piloting, through organisation of training workshops and delivery of counselling services for development of sustainability-oriented intrapreneurial assignments for representatives of the project’s target groups (IO2-b).SINTRA is expected to directly benefit, at the different stages of its implementation, min. 120 employees and employers in different types of organisations, to take part in the sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship pilot training workshops and counselling services (min. 20 per country). In addition, the partners expect to directly involve min. 165 relevant stakeholders (indirect beneficiaries) in the project’s multiplier events (6 National multiplier events and a Final Conference). The ambition of the SINTRA consortium is to make the tools, designed within the project, exploitable and transferable for supporting sustainability-oriented intrapreneurship uptake in organisations in different national and cultural contexts, even beyond the consortium composition and after the completion of the project. To this end, it is necessary to take the diverse specificities and needs of employees and employers in a multinational context, which further reinforces the need for and the added value of the transnational implementation of project activities.

FEENICS – Furthering youth Empowerment through ENhancing Intrapreneurial Commitment and Skills, is a 2-year Erasmus+ KA2 Youth project, which aims at providing an integrated support, tailored to the needs and specificities of young people in the age group 20-29, who either already possess working experience (currently employed or not), or have never been employed (job-seekers and discouraged individuals), through development and validation of innovative integrated training tools and material. The objective of the envisaged project activities will be to support sustainable investment in young people’s training, by means of pilot workshops and preparation of youth trainers and peer support providers, in order to increase motivation and self-awareness, create incentives for acquiring new intrapreneurship-related skills and promote efficient and sustainable integration of young people into employment and society. FEENICS’ innovativeness is linked both to the development of intrapreneurial skills within the business entities and to creating possibilities for encouraging and supporting young people’s social intrapreneurial behaviour. The innovativeness of the project might be further sought in its multidimensional and cross-disciplinary approach to supporting young adults across Europe in their striving for employment and social inclusion through encouraging intrapreneurial behaviour amongst them. FEENICS can further claim innovativeness in being an original EU-wide effort to come up with a transnational initiative, focused on enhancing the intrapreneurial spirit and hence employability of young people in different countries, located in different parts of Europe, finding themselves in very diverse national and cultural contexts. Furthermore, the project proposal is practically complementary to all the entrepreneurship-related initiatives and projects, implemented by the members of the consortium, as with FEENICS, the consortium is aiming to build up on these past activities by innovatively shifting the focus and field of application of the supportive actions from the open market context to the intra-corporate environment. The FEENICS consortium comprises 6 partner organisations from 6 countries (Iceland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Greece and Portugal), gathered around the idea, that developing intrapreneurial mindset among young people can play a key role for their employment and social integration. The partnership achieves a good balance and mutual complementarity in terms of experiences/competences possessed and allocation of tasks and responsibilities. The project’s intellectual outputs (IOs) envisage firstly a Survey and Gap Analysis (IO1), to be conducted by means of in-depth investigation and surveys/interviews with young people and actual/prospective employers of such individuals. High quality, practically-oriented training workshops, preceded by preparation of trainers will then be delivered, using curriculum and training content elaborated, based on the Gap Analysis’ results (IO2). In order to enhance the sustainability and efficiency of the training activities envisaged within the project, a youth trainers’/peer support providers’ collaborative network will be established and an innovative e-Learning Platform created (IO3), containing all the developed learning resources and making training content and experience accessible to other countries and stakeholders for adaptation and further implementation. Finally, a Youth Empowerment Kit will be developed (IO4), containing, among other things, inspiring case studies and conclusions/recommendations to policymakers on measures to increase employment prospects for young people through intrapreneurship support. FEENICS is expected to directly benefit, at the different stages of its implementation min. 120 young people aged 20-29, to take part in the pilot training workshops (min. 20 per country), min. 120 young people and employers (min. 20 per country) to participate in the envisaged discussion seminars. In addition, the partners expect to directly involve no less than 170 relevant stakeholders (indirect beneficiaries) in the project’s multiplier events (6 National Info Days and a Final Conference). The FEENICS project will have an overall impact on participating organisations, policymakers, social partners, single employers and, finally, young people, as its major objective is to narrow the existing knowledge gap, provide awareness on key concepts and opportunities and equip young people with the needed tools to support their efforts for mitigating their own state of “vulnerability” in the labour market and improving the degree of their social inclusion. Thus, the project’s end goal is to put in place a sustainable process of empowerment, self-awareness and self-initiative within the project’s target group, which will continue to evolve after project’s completion.