Projects >> Business

The Ecooese project developed by FUNDECYT-PCTEX with cofunding from the European Social Fund within the framework of the Employgreen Programme of Biodiversity Foundation and the collaboration of the Industrial Technology Centre of Extremadura (CETIEX), has an objective to promote cooperation, energy saving and efficiency through the presentation of energy services by worker groups from traditional sectors to organisations interested in reducing their energy costs.

The objective of the project is to improve regional policies in order to promote responsible innovation in SMEs throughout the exchange of experiences among all the partners, based on the triple bottom line: PEOPLE-PROFIT-PLANET. The DESUR project will address the difficulties that SMEs encounter when trying to incorporate social responsibility into their business model. SMEs often lack the resources and awareness necessary to adopt sustainable practices such as: respect for the natural environment, removal of barriers and inequalities, lifelong learning, increased productivity, efficient resource usage, better quality of life for employees, etc.

DANTE aims to promote a new regional policy approach to designing a knowledge-based plan for the tourism sector. The objective of DANTE is to improve the effectiveness of regional policies in the area of innovation by enhancing the role of ICT in tourism industry in rural and mountain areas. The project optimizes nine innovative good practices that demonstrate the benefits of Information Society for competitiveness of the tourism sector in disadvantaged areas.

The main aim of the CAMP2.0 project is to strengthen marketing and PR competences of managerial staff of adult education providers and empower them with knowledge and skills for attracting of low participation of adults in lifelong learning by using WEB 2.0 tools. The main objectives are to reveal the current situation of the marketing and PR in adult education; to develop and pilot innovative Training Course; to ensure exploitation and multiplication of the developed course, and to introduce bottom-up initiatives for increase of low participation of adults in lifelong learning opportunities

The main outcomes of project will be Trainers Guide, Training Course and Handbook. Training Course will be tested during Pilot Training Course with adult education providers. Trainers Guide and Training Course will be developed in electronic format in 6 languages: EN, DE, ES, IT, TR and LT this way ensuring their maximum dissemination and valorization potential. Handbook (EN), comprising the most important outcomes of the project will be published with circulation of 900. All of these outcomes will be available online for free on project website.

The goal of the Digital Agenda of Extremadura is to carry out an analysis of the condition of the regional ICT sector and design a number of actions to address the challenges that Extremadura is facing in terms of ICT. Following the strategy of the European Union of a Digital Agenda for Europe, the Government of Extremadura, with the support of FUNDECYT-PCTEX, seeks to establish the roadmap of the ICTS implementation policy for the next few years in the region.