The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Global Goals, are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy inclusion, peace and prosperity. To address and tackle social, economic and global issues, and help countries, governments and societies in combating them, SDGs define global priorities and aspirations for 2030 for the planet to "eliminate extreme discrimination, poverty and put the humanity on a path of sustainability". In order to help companies contribute to the realization of the SDGs, UN created ''The SDG Compas", as United Nation stated "it presents five steps for companies to maximize their contribution to the SDGs". Still, this is only the beginning and companies need more knowledge. Thus, the project consortium wishes to be a part of the solution. Today, technology analyzes unstructured “abstract” data, such as social performance, as the most important one. In the end, it helps companies see the tangible contribution in achieving SDGs - precisely this will be in the focus when it comes to exchanging the best practices of companies in MS, in order to educate European adults; companies and decision makers. The main objectives of SociSDGs are: •Increasing the capacity of the organizations in the consortium to work at a transeuropean level. •The exchange of good practices in order to increase the knowledge and awareness of the target groups about the importance of SDGs, their social component, emphasizing impacts and integration as a part of the measurement of the SDGs. • The creation of a collaborative online and offline platform form for companies, decision makers and society. • The creation of nine webinars, each dedicated to specific social SDG. • The creation of a social SDGs Handbook in .pdf format that summarizes the webinars. Project SociSDGs is focused on achieving greater awareness and knowledge of adults, companies and decision makers when it comes to the measurement and the implementation of social SDGs to business strategies, as well as the overall matter of sustainable development in MS connected to the SDGs. Since there is a lack of education of adults when it comes to this topic, especially unified educational tool that would facilitete the learning, consortium is established of nine renowned partners that all enjoy great reputation in sustainability and education of adults, entrepreneurs anad managers. All partners have a wide network of stakeholders in this area and the possibility to affect their communities. Project will also include nine different companies and nine decision makers with experience in social SDGs. The project SociSDGs will include several types of activities. Three two-day transnational project meetings (TPM) will be held in order to evaluate the project progress, depening on a phase: one in the beginning to officially begin the project, one in the middle to follow the current projects progress and one in the end to evaluate the overall project and present the results. Learning activities (LA), five short-term joint staff training events will be 5-day education activities for exchanging practices when it comes to measuring companies social impact and inclusion, and measuring the integration of socially-oriented SDGs in their business models that are build upon the UN guidelines, in order to achieve better understanding of this issue and help companies improve their work and active participation in the sustainable development. Methodology used in every activity will be twofold: in the first part consortium will focus on the presentation of examples, which will be followed by the discussion, interactive workshop and working on the creation of nine webinars and a social SDG handbook. In order to successfully disseminate the project, project partners during 24 months will organize and participate in different multipier events, as well promote the project through various on-line tools. The project will contribute to the realization of strategy Europe 2020 on EU level because it will result with increased adult, companies and decision makers education about measuring their social impact when it comes to SDGs as well as measuring the integration of socially-oriented SDGs in their business models in order to actively participate in assuring sustainable development and social inclusion in business sector. Participants and their organizations will through exchange of practices increase the knowledge of the mentioned topics, meaning that they will gain precious knowldge of trends in sustainability that will facilitate the development of their work and educational competences, as well as adaption to current and future working conditions. Participants of the project will understand the importance on non-formal education that enhances their abilities as adult educators, as it will enable them the creation of educational deliverables that are needed in their future educational, consulting and collaborative work.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Global Goal present a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy inclusion, peace and prosperity. The strategic partnership of the project SociSDG has worked 24 months to develop a SociSDG Handbook and 9 webinars in order to create more understanding and give inspiring guidance for achieving SDGs. The SociSDGs Handbook and webinars represent a distillation of knowledge gained during the projects by various partners, and also a concrete artefact that is a result of collaboration, discussions and negotiations between various approaches and views. At the same time the handbook should be useful not just for internal stakeholders, workers of project partners, but also for external stakeholders who focus on social aspects of SDGs, good practice examples, and ways how to combine them. Today, technology analyzes unstructured “abstract” data, such as social performance, as the most important one. In the end, it helps companies see the tangible contribution in achieving SDGs - precisely this was in the focus when it comes to exchanging the best practices of companies in MS, in order to educate European adults; companies and decision makers. In that sense, partnership with Datamaran provided a strategic partnership a use of artificial intelligence (AI) tool in order to make a state of the art of SDGs. For strategic partnership, AI presents multiplier for human ungenuity, opening up entirely new areas to realise full potential of humanity. The main objectives of SociSDGs were successfully accomplished: • Increased capacity of all project parrtners in the consortium to work at a transeuropean level, as some organisations never participated in EU projects. With the successful strategic collaboration, partners have successfully submitted project proposals on SDGs and got granted in 2019. • Increased knowledge and awareness of the target groups about the importance of SDGs, their social component, impacts and integration as a part of the measurement of the SDGs,because of transferred knowledge of the lecturers (project partners) from Learning activities (LA). Number of target groups through dissemination has been accomplished (even higher). • The creation of: -a collaborative online and offline platform form for companies, decision makers and society - socisdg.com -9 webinars -SociSDG Handbook in .pdf format that summaries the webinars. -20+ sustainability experts connected in FB group The project SociSDGs include several types of activities but the most productive were 5 five-day LA, a five short-term joint staff training events were for exchanging practices when it comes to measuring companies social impact and inclusion, and measuring the integration of socially-oriented SDGs in their business models that are build upon the UN guidelines, in order to achieve better understanding of this issue and help companies improve their work and active participation in the sustainable development. Methodology used during five LAs was twofold: presentation of examples of practical activities by decision makers and enterprises were followed by a discussion and interactive workshop between partners, decision makers and enterprises. In that way the consortium ensured active learning focused on participants. The learning principles of the learning provided HomoEminens. Because of that, project consortium and educators need to develop competences required to understand SDG like: open-minded, critical or out-of-the-box thinking, team work, collaboration, innovation and listening. Those competences are especially important in a lifelong learning perspective, because they are helping participants in achieving greater employability and competitive advantage on the open labour market. During 5 LAs, 32 enterprise and NGO representatives have shared with the consortium best practices on project topics, and 9 decision makers shared their expertise regarding SDGs. The project contributed to the realization of strategy Europe 2020 on EU level because it resulted with SDG educational material, increased adult, companies and decision makers who participated at LA, as well as target groups which participated in local educational events, seminars and lectures of the lecturers (project partners). Participants and their organizations through exchange of practices increase the knowledge of the mentioned topics, meaning that they gained precious knowledge of trends in sustainability that facilitated the development of their work and educational competences, as well as adaption to current and future working conditions. Participants of the project now understand the importance on non-formal education that enhances their abilities as adult educators, as it enabled them to create educational deliverable that are needed in their future educational, consulting and collaborative work.