<< Background >>European projects often promote environmental education and sustainable development principles… But do we apply those principles to ourselves? Erasmus programme is one of the main achievements of the European integration. In 2019, this programme supported close to 940.000 learning experiences abroad and funded almost 25.500 project. What is the environmental impact of those activities and mobility? How to reduce it? This is the core subject of SUSTAIN E+ project.Many professionals are involved in the presentation and implementation of Erasmus + projects, from the conception of the project ideas to the monitoring of training activities. These professionals present a very heterogeneous group, with different professional profiles, experiences and responsibilities. Most of them have learnt how to work with Erasmus + on the ground, through the experience and opportunities presented. 2021 is a year of many changes, with a new Erasmus + programme that insists, among priorities, on the sustainable development and fight against climate change. We have experienced, with COVID 19 pandemic, a deep transformation of our working practices, turning non-essential travels into virtual. The digital tools that allow remote meetings, as well as webinars and online conferences, make it possible to reduce travel and increase the impact of projects. COVID has made possible to make an important leap in this regard, we must take advantage of the situation so that this way of working lasts as long as possible.For this, several training needs are identified:-First, a need to evaluate the contamination levels linked to the projects so to raise our awareness of our impact. Calculating the footprint of the different possible alternatives clearly reflects the options to reduce the impact and helps us make better decisions from an environmental point of view.-Then, increasing the level of knowledge and competences of project staff in the fields of sustainable transport, sustainable training activities, energy efficiency, project efficient management, digital solutions, etc. tackling the main areas of losses identified and significantly bettering our impact on environment. As a conclusion, SUSTAIN E+ arise from the need to train professionals in the implementation of sustainable and efficient Erasmus+ projects.<< Objectives >>The main objective (MO) of SUSTAIN E+ project is to develop guidelines addressed to workers involved in the development and implementation of Erasmus + projects and helping them in the design of eco-friendly project proposals, that takes into account the carbon footprint of their activities and intend to limit it thanks to more sustainable activities, especially regarding mobility. Thanks to Sustain E+, professional working with Erasmus + will be able to better evaluate their environmental impact, decrease it, and by extension will raise awareness of all Erasmus participants on their behaviours promoting sustainable actions. To go further in the achievement of this main objective, we have set 3 specific objectives, on which all the activities of this project will be focused:Specific Objective 1: Awareness raising from the professional from the sector about their environmental impact. People working with Erasmus + should get more concerned about their own impact and become more responsible at the time of planning their projects, thanks to different tools that will enable them to have a clear panorama of their different alternatives when planning an activity, and the contamination associated to each of them. Specific Objective 2: Training professionals working with Erasmus+ in the field of circularity and sustainability of EU projects, in a collective way, including:-Eco-design of a project that enable to decrease the impact since the design of the project idea in all areas of implementation.-Sustainable mobility guidelines, tackling the issue of transport, but also consumption while traveling. -Digital solutionsSpecific Objective 3: increasing the digitalisation of educational solutions. The restrictions applied during the pandemic have shown that digital solution can be effective alternatives to some activities that would have a higher footprint organised in a classic way. Thus, the digitalisation of training solution will be among the priorities of SUSTAIN E+ project.<< Implementation >>Our project will be formed by a consortium of 5 European entities from Spain, Poland, Italy and Greece and that are highly experienced in the implementation of Erasmus + projects. They are expert in environment, digital solutions, education, project management and mobility management. And they will bring those complementary experiences together to propose a set of activities designed to answer the project objectives. These activities will be: -Development of 3 main project results: an evaluation tool on Erasmus + projects and their environmental impact, training materials on sustainable Erasmus + project design and implementation, and a social based training platform that enjoin entities to form a new generation of partnerships that are more sustainable and with a reduce impact on the environment, sharing experiences and solutions. -A sustainable mobility, that will be organized at the beginning of the project and where professionals working with Erasmus + will experience in firsthand the definition of low-impact journey. During this experience, partners will have to answer the challenge of having a minimum impact while travelling and subsist in a foreign country. In the meanwhile, they will engage discussion on the definition of sustainability in a project and establish first criteria to be considered toward the certification of “green” project.-Sustainable events, that will be organized in each country at the end of the project as a way to promote the results achieved in a sustainable way. -And of course, all those activities will be supported by an efficient management system that will itself be designed with the idea of reducing the impact to the minimum, meaning fewer transnational meetings, more virtual meetings, a no-papers dissemination strategy, the optimization of online management tools, and a continuous reporting effort to spread our achievements.<< Results >>As a main result, our project has the ambition to answer to our main objective, the support of professional working with Erasmus + project to achieve the design and implementation of more sustainable – less contaminating Erasmus + projects. This will be achieved through the production of 3 main results:-An evaluation tool, called Erasmus + projects and their environmental impact. This tool will enable project staff to evaluate the impact of their initiatives. It will state criteria and levels of “acceptable” contamination, and will deliver a feedback on the evaluated project, thus providing information on the area of possible improvement to implement more eco-friendly project. It will deliver a green certificate to the good practices. -A training set, that proposes materials in different areas, such as transport, consumables, management, digital tools in order to upskills professionals working within the context of Erasmus + projects. These materials will be addressing the need of coordinating the activities in the frame of a partnership, thus taking into consideration the fact that Erasmus are projects that are implemented with different organisations requiring distance management tools. -A platform that brings together the previously mentioned materials on a digital and open format and beyond: that connect entities working with Erasmus + to share practices and learn from mutual experiences. At long term, our project expects to achieve the implementation of better and more efficient Erasmus + project on an environmental perspective, that also encourage better behaviours from all the participants to this programme, with a direct positive impact on our environment, contributing to the European Green Deal.