Analysis grid for quality of good practices
Identification of Practice:GreenEcoNet
NEMESI partner presenting: ISM – Germany
Following the presentation/demonstration of the practice, check their quality standard against the criteria listed below;give a score from 1 to 4 (1 for a low or unsatisfactory standard, and 4 for very high or very good standard). If you consider you have no element to appraise a criteria, please tick non ratable.
Weight / Quality criteria / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / Nonratable / Evidence/justification (Identify the elements of proof or evidence that substantiate the presence of each criteria)
To what extent the activities appear to be coherent with the objectives to be achieved by the practice / v / The GreenEcoNet-Project is a web platform which was developed to establish politics to generate useful overall conditions for Green Economy SMEs. The specific aims are to help interested institutions/ organizations to find information about qualified employees,manage recruitment of skilled personnel and create useful networks.
To what extentthe practice responds to identified needs / v / The website platform helps the identification and recruiting of skilled personnel and the retention of qualified employees across Europe. It also supports transnational cooperation. All these areas are identified by the analysis of the labour market context.
Criteria / To what extent the practiceimproves the skills needs identification and the skills matching in the digital and/or in the green economy involving and/or for the benefit of small and medium enterprises / The registration of clients is not a formal process but a professional one. It involves assessment of the skills of the new sme member, the identification of clients’ skills needs and an alignment of the two.
To what extent the practiceintegrates new elements of intervention to achieve an improvement in the skills needs identification and/orin the skills matching in the digital and/or in the green economy involving and/or for the benefit of small and medium enterprises / v / Registration of clients (See above).
GreenEcoNet workshop on SMEs policy options to foster performance in a green economy.
Practical tools and online guidance for the development of green skills economy in SMEs
To what extent the practice contributes progressive tools, facilities, technologies or processes to the field of skills needs identification and skills matching in the digital and/or in the green economy involving and/or for the benefit of small and medium enterprises / v / The GreenEcoNet web platform allows stakeholders to share important Best Practices in securing qualified employees.
The SMEs registration procedure
To what extent the practice is led and supported by stakeholders partnership who strive towards the pursued goals and are committed to the success of the practice / v / GreenEcoNet is coordinated by a consortium of six leading research networks specialising in green economy transitions including the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the Green Economy Coalition (GEC), Joint Implementation Network (JIN), Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Ecologic Institute and the University of Piraeus Research Centre (UPRC).
To what extent the practice enjoys the collaboration of various administrations and government bodies and/or business associations/organisations and/or chambers of commerce that provide their support to the project / v / The practice benefits from the collaboration of several institutions and organisations in the field of education, political studies and environment: University of York, Great Britain
University of PiraeusResearchCenter (UPRC), Greece
Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Belgium
Joint Implementation Network (JIN), Netherlands
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Great Britain.
The collaboration of governmental bodies is not mentioned.
To what extent the practice leads to lasting changes in the way of working and strategic planning in the long term / v / The complex and reliable scheme of services provided by the website platform management is conducive to sustainability. The registration of clients is done at the same time with skills assessment and the identification of clients’ needs. As a result, the clientsare likely to find the skills information they search.
To what extent the practice involves a wide range of actors and stakeholders that help sustain the project financially / v / It`s a project funded and financed by the European Commission.
To what extent resources are/can be made (cross out that which does not apply) available for continuation of the practice. / v / The online presence of the resources ensure permanent and easy access for the interested parties. The digital products are: an online general discussion forum, an online search engine with solutions to problems of SMEs
and good practices and online provision of practical tools and online guidance.
The practice or elements therein were/can be (cross out that which does not apply) adopted by actors located in similar areas / v / The website platform structure and management procedure can be easily adapted in principle by stakeholders in different other geographical and professional contexts who have the same aim of sharing information about skills existent and needed and networking.
To what extent are the products/services/activities capable of being applied/used in different context / v / Same as above.
To what extent are the products/services/activities capable of being applied/used with diverse target groups / v / Same as above.
Small and medium enterprises, but also large enterprises.
To what extent the practice or elements therein were/can be (cross out that which does not apply) adopted by other stakeholders / Same as above.
To what extent do you feel free to adapt and use the products and/or adapt services/activities material in a different order/way to suit your own needs / v
To what extent the practice has an inherent European scope (such as stakeholders partnership serving Europe). / v / The stakeholders from different parts of Europe come together to accelerate the uptake of green business practices across Europe.
The web platform aims at fostering networking and exchange of experience at the European level.
To what extent benefits have been produced from cross-border co-operation (such as a network of complimentary training centers, smes, pes in different countries). / v / Cross-border cooperation is at the centre of GreenEco Net. Stakeholders and partners come from Sweden, Great Britain, Greece, Belgium and the Netherlands. Staff training and development and recruitment services that are done cross-border contribute to labour mobility and the reduction of skills mismatch.
To what extent the practice or elements therein demonstrate(d) and/or promote(d) innovative schemes with European relevance - where the demonstration itself might take place locally / v / A digital platform that has a joint administrative, coordinating, development and networking role is an innovative practice.
To what extent the practice’s progressive and/or established ideas may be applied to parallel or similar situations in the same or different regions / v
To what extent the practice acts as a source of inspiration for new projects / v / Not mentioned. However, given the wide range of institutions involved the probability that spin-off projects get started is significant.
Score: 65
Dedicated web platform which was developed for SMEs in Green Economy.
The multiple function of the web platform: data-base, sharing information tool, skills analyses and guidance, training in skills identification and skills matching.
The presence of the two sectors of interest of the present project: Green economy and ICT.
The wide range of European institutions involved and cross-border cooperation. / There are some aspects in the presentation of the practice that need more clarification and evidence support. However at searching the GreenEcoNet website ( most of these are decoded.
Suggested Improvements and Recommendations (content quality, degree of innovation, transferability, etc.)
It would be useful to showcase cases of successful skills matching process with SMEs registering on the platform and an example of the procedure of skills identification.
Conclusions regarding validation, transfer and incorporation of the practice
An innovative and useful tool for SMEs but also a model transferable to other types of institutions and other domains.
Analysed from the perspective of:
vPeerName and surname:Ruxandra Popovici
□External expert Name and surname:
Place and date: 24 Oct.2014