Building bridges for green-tech future

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Poland - Denmark - Germany - Lithuania - Sweden (South Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-03-10

Description

Description (EN):

The SB Region has many competitive strengths: a vibrant service sector, a performing education system and a huge potential for green and blue growth. Despite a lot of good initiatives to increase the share of labour force working in the blue and green economy, the SB Region is still facing the need to identify and overcome the obstacles; like the lack of interest to the youth for technical education, the interest of pupils in blue and green studies and a mismatch between higher education and the labour market of the green and blue sector.The challenge to be adressed by the project "SB Bridge" is to improve motivation for green and blue related studies and jobs for pupils, who are bridging from school to tertiary or vocational training, increase number of youngsters with interest for green and blue studies and reduce the mismatch between higher education and their graduates and the green and blue labour market. The project is aiming build a bridge between education and requirments of engaging SMEs by developing a new approach based on the german concept of the "TechnOlympics", which was piloted in the Project SoBaTo in SBP 2007-2013. The targeted project SB Bridge is based on the concept where cross boarder events of a competition (in theorethical and practical tests) to arouse students' interest in technics and innovation. The purpose is an innovative approach to raise motivation and develop a matchmaking between skilled pupils and graduates and SMEs within the SB region. The intended project will develop this concept towards blue and green industries and required skills to the whole SBP Region by involving more partners: APs, SMEs and other interested groups. Project will cover several WPs, related to informal education with strong focus on green technologies, cross border themathic camping in all PPs countries, also skills development sustainability activities.

Achievements (EN):

What is the project changing? The SB Bridge project aims to reduce the mismatch between higher education and its graduates and the green and blue labour market, improving the motivation of young people to study and work in the green and blue sector. What was the challenge? Despite many good initiatives to increase the share of the labour force working in the blue and green economy, the South Baltic Region was facing the need to identify and overcome obstacles, such as lack of interest of young people in technical education, students' interest in blue and green studies and the mismatch between higher education and the labour market in the green and blue sector. What is the project creating? The project aims to build a bridge between education and the demands of engaging SMEs by developing a new approach based on the German concept of "TechnOlympics", which was piloted in the SoBaTo project in SBP 2007-2013. It is based on a concept in which cross-border events with a competitive nature are designed to stimulate students' interest in technology and innovation. Full project description Despite a lot of good initiatives to increase the share of labour force working in the blue and green economy, the South Baltic Region is still facing the need to identify and overcome the obstacles like the lack of interest of youth for technical education, the interest of pupils in blue and green studies and a mismatch between higher education and the labour market of the green and blue sector. The challenge to be addressed by the project "SB Bridge" is to reduce the mismatch between higher education and their graduates and the green and blue labour market, to improve motivation of young people for green and blue related studies and jobs. The project is aiming build a bridge between education and requirements of engaging SMEs by developing a new approach based on the German concept of the "TechnOlympics", which was piloted in the Project SoBaTo in SBP 2007-2013. The targeted project SB Bridge is based on the concept where cross boarder events of a competition (in theoretical and practical tests) to arouse students' interest in technics and innovation. The purpose is an innovative approach to raise motivation and develop matchmaking between skilled pupils and graduates and SMEs within the SB region. The intended project will develop this concept towards blue and green industries and required skills to the whole SBP Region by involving more partners: APs, SMEs and other interested groups. Project will cover several WPs, related to informal education with strong focus on green technologies, cross border thematic camping in all PPs countries, also skills development sustainability activities.

Website: https://southbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Skilled and motyvated students for potential workplaces in green and blue economy SMEs in South Baltic area.

Expected Outputs (EN):

1) Delivered cross-border employment scheme in the green and blue economy of the South Baltic area; 2) SMEs involved in the implementation of cross-border joint training and employment; 3) Institutions, involved into the implementation of joint training and joint employment services; 4) Students participants in joint training and joint employment initiatives.

Thematic information

Labour market and employment Education and training SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: Increase the share of skilled labour force working in blue and green economy sectors of the South Baltic area through joint cross-border actions

Thematic Objective: (08) promoting sustainable and quality employment and supporting labour mobility by:

Investment Priority: (08 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: promoting sustainable and quality employment and supporting labour mobility by integrating cross-border labour markets, including cross-border mobility, joint local employment initiatives, information and advisory services and joint training

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Klaipeda University

Address: Herkaus Manto 84, LT-92294 Klaipeda, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: www.ku.lt

Total budget: EUR 210 400.00

ERDF budget: EUR 178 840.00

Klaipėdos ekonominės plėtros agentūra

Name: Klaipėdos ekonominės plėtros agentūra

Address: Bangų str. 5A, LT-91250 Klaipėda, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: www.kepa.lt, www.investinklaipeda.com

Total budget: EUR 148 850.00

ERDF budget: EUR 126 522.50

ATI erc gGmbH education, research and furtherance of cooperation

Name: ATI erc gGmbH education, research and furtherance of cooperation

Address: Alter Holzhafen 19 19, 23966 Wismar, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: www.ati-erc.de

Total budget: EUR 201 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 170 850.00

Länsstyrelsen Skåne

Name: Länsstyrelsen Skåne

Address: Södergatan 5, SE-20515 Malmö, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: www.lansstyrelsen.se

Total budget: EUR 100 600.00

ERDF budget: EUR 75 450.00

Holbæk Kommune

Name: Holbæk Kommune

Address: Kanalstraede 2, 4300 Holbaek, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: www.holbaek.dk

Total budget: EUR 325 522.50

ERDF budget: EUR 244 141.88

Gdańska Fundacja Przedsiębiorczości

Name: Gdańska Fundacja Przedsiębiorczości

Address: Lęborska 3b, 80-386 Gdańsk, Poland

Legal status: private

Website: www.gfp.com.pl

Total budget: EUR 236 700.00

ERDF budget: EUR 201 195.00

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Summary

Project name (EN): Building bridges for green-tech future

Project acronym: SB BRIDGE

Project start date: 2018-07-25

Project end date: 2021-07-24

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 223 072.50

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 996 999.38

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, .

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Videos / films

South baltic bridge

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: https://sbbridge.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-29

Document date: 2019-09-23

Languages: en

Reports

The Role We Play Sustainability Report 2018

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://sbbridge.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-29

Document date: 2019-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Handbook For Organisation Of International Green Camps And International Technolympics

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://sbbridge.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-29

Document date: 2021-07-24

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Handbook For Organisation Of International Blue Camps And International Technolympics

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://sbbridge.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-29

Document date: 2021-07-24

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Sustainable Blue Growth: for youth

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://sbbridge.eu/

Publication date: 2022-09-29

Document date: 2021-07-24

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Poland - Denmark - Germany - Lithuania - Sweden (South Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-03-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

155 / 155 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

589 / 870 (67.7%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Data from 66 projects (Seed Money Projects) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2024-03-01. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://southbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-24 and 2023-01-24.

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Building bridges for green-tech future

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