Greening the Hubs is about to launch its CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME for a selected groups of operators working for the creative hubs involved in the project (ndr. DUMBO, KAAPELI and NOVA CVERNOVKA).
This capacity building is a long-term (104 training hours in total) and blended training programme proposing the right mix of online and onsite training activities during the next year of project implementation. While the online learning modules are designed to foster transversal skills required to innovate in a more sustainable way the creative hubs, the on-site peer-to-peer learning activities intend to address specific competences related to one of the 4 topics covered by the project.
GtH Capacity Building is a peer-to-peer learning programme mainly based in the exchange of experiences among practitioners of the CCI’s and on the transfer of good practices already implemented across Europe. Please do not expect any academic lecture on green skills and sustainability because we want to provide instead our beneficiaries with practical and direct insights on successful stories that can be used as inspiration in the implementation of the project pilot actions. In effect, the main objective of Greening the Hubs capacity building is to train a pilot group of sustainability managers and to provide them with a set of competences and skills that will be crucial when their creative hubs will test and run innovative and sustainable models to manage their business.
Let’s see more in detail the architecture of Greening the Hubs capacity building programme:
The ONLINE part schedules a total of 40 hours of training activities with a permanent and flexible access for their beneficiaries. Thus, part of the online programme will be delivered according to self-study approach and by providing the beneficiaries with a selection of already existing online tools (i.e. MOOC, clips of lectures, case study documents, etc.) for the flexible, open and permanent enrollment. Training beneficiaries will be ideally involved in a sort of “self-study guided tour” for a total of 31 training hours. Do not miss the opportunity to receive directly in your e-mail box the selection of the most relevant e-learning tools available for free on the web, subscribe now GtH Newsletter!
The ONLINE part of the capacity building programme is also composed by 3 online workshops (9 training hours in total) that are going to be specifically organised on very specific topics by involving expert mentors/trainers into live stream sessions with the attending participants. The first online event is saved for the 06th of October with the title “GREENING THE HUBS FOR IMPACT AWARENESS”. Iphigenia Taxopoulou (founding member mitos21 and associate partner of Julie’s Bicycle) will address the challenging theme of the environmental impact generated by the activities of the creative and cultural sector (energy, water, waste, procurement, digital, travel, etc.) and she will propose direct voices of some good practices of inspiration already happened in Europe. The second online event is “GREENING THE HUBS FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT” saved on 04th of November and it is going to be coordinated by Lewis Coenen-Rowe (culture/SHIFT manager at Culture for Climate Scotland organisation) to provide participants with inputs and ideas on how to better engage staff and stakeholders in the creative hub’s mission towards greater sustainability. The third event is “GREENING THE HUBS FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION” and it will be directly inspired by the European project CreaSus on how to innovate business practices with new technologies and/or opportunities by also exploring new source and tools of funding.
The ONSITE part of the capacity building is going to be delivered in the form of transnational training events (the so-called GtH Training Hotspots for 64 training hours in total) that will be hosted and organised in turn by several project partners. It is important to note that each Training Hotspot will address very specific topics but all the events are going to have the same methodological approach delivering 16 training hours over 3 working days and mixing up the right combination of field visits to local example of good practices, lectures with experts and workshop on the practical aspects, networking and discussion among the participants. The first Training Hotspot on the topic “reduction and reuse of food and beverage waste” is already saved for 03-04-05 December 2025 and it will be hosted by DUMBO in Bologna. The second Training Hotspot on the topic “circularity and material innovation from garbage” is going to be hosted by TRANSFOLAB in Barcelona on February 2026; the third Training Hotspot on the topic “energy efficiency” will be hosted by NOVA CVERNOVKA in Bratislava in May 2026 while the fourth and last Training Hotspot on the topic “community (of tenants) engagement in achieving sustainable practices” will be hosted by KAAPELI in Helsinki in August 2026. The participation in the transnational training events is restricted to the pilot group of beneficiaries selected by the project partners but do not worry we will keep you update in with the main highlights from each Training Hotspot!
