About
Entrepreneurship & Sustainability Support Foundation (JOIN4CS), is a non-governmental, non-profit organization, founded in 2017 in Greece, with the aim to support the development of rural and urban entrepreneurship by facilitating collaborations and synergies among stakeholders from the public sector, the business sector, the research and academic community and the civil society at a national and an international level in the field of innovation in ICT, sustainable tourism, education, civil society, energy and environment. Currently JOIN4CS implements 5 interregional cooperation programmes aiming to organize the business ecosystem at regional level, to develop new digital tools to assist the energy transition of their organisations and businesses, to train the local SME’s on how to follow sustainability principles and become competitive and to engage young people in public affairs and policy-making.
JOIN4CS promotes locally the New European Bauhaus initiative through dedicated actions and projects like the GREENOVATE pilot project (Climate-EIT) that foster circular economy from and by the local authorities with the transformation of end-of-life materials into urban equipment (planters and benches) to beautify parts of the city with the active support of the students and the citizens. By actively participating in joint activities, JOIN4CS ensures the project's success in enhancing the region's environmental conditions, leveraging the organization's comprehensive approach to foster impactful collaborations and drive substantial environmental improvements.
JOIN4CS is focusing mainly on the build-up capacities and offer training services to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how a company shall comply with those goals setting overall emission targets on an annual basis. JOIN4CS supports the development of educational material for young students and young entrepreneurs to set-up a monitoring framework to meet sustainability targets and how they can better address the training needs of the new entrepreneurs and graduates but also a sustainable and reliable dissemination campaign to reach the specific target groups that required this knowledge which is vital for their new business endeavour.
Area
Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW)Circular energy integration: valorising local waste streams for industrial efficiencyElectric Vehicles (EV) Batteries Recycling and ReuseCircular Economý in Textile IndustryEnhancing DIgitalisation in Circular Economy Processes