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CBPD ALProject title: “Doing Green Bussiness in Albania – Embracing Green Technology Development, through Policy, Information & Knowledge Society”.
Albania is a SME-based economy in which the sectors of agriculture, industry and commerce in urban and rural areas play a vital role regarding economic growth and employment opportunities. However, taking into account the environmental situation in general and waste-related problems in particular, SMEs face several severe common problems in sustatinable envirenment in order to keep up their competitiveness in national and European markets. Project partners have decided to tackle the urgent need, among others, to improve business support services in order to elaborate “Doing Green Business”, which is an integrated national approach that will help provide a specific support service for SMEs in national level for the economy sectors leaning towards green bussiness. The project’s overall objective is to set up and elaborate the Support Service Protocol that will provide business organisations on national level with guidelines and policies on how to improve green technology applications, also provide these organisations with better assessment tools in order to enable them to tackle the common challenges that they face and finally to best guide SMEs so that these can fully exploit the opportunities provided by EC for them. The Protocol will also give guidelines on how to best facilitate and promote an innovative green entrepreneurship for SMEs in these sectors. Green Support Service Protocol will also include an integrated ICT platform database to register the waste capacity produced by these sectors on national level, including waste that can serve as the raw material for biooil production via pyrolis process.
Based on a mutual learning apporach the partnership will use established good practices, prior project results and newly detected good practices in order to identify the most adequate ones in relation to successful, transferable, innovative and realistic approaches. Based on these findings the partnership will elaborate the Support Service Protocol. Futhermore, the followig support tools will be developed which will make it possible to implement the Support Service Protocol: National Integrated Database for SME support and service providers, Tools for raising innovation awareness such as ToolKit for entrepreneurs, Virtual Platform, E-Learning Course, among others.
Both the Support Service Protocol and the support tools will be tested by the partners and interested stakeholders. Their adequateness will be commonly discussed between the partners and the target groups. Improvements will be integrated in order to actively transfer the Support Service Protocol and capacitate employees of business support services to implement the Protocol and support tools in their entities. The core results of the project will be an improved policy, effectiveness and quality of green businesses in field of agriculture, industry and commerce for a sustainable environment, that will be able to facilitate an innovative adapted technogy, improve their product quality and marketing strategies thus assisting them in the development and implementation of internationalisation strategies.
The overall result will be a strengthened environment in total, improved monitoring of active SME’s in urban and rural areas, improved environment in urban and peri-urban areas as well as rural areas, promoted friendly practices in these fields of economy, promoted use of environmentally friendly energy sources, promoted self-awareness and organized public campaigns.——
CBPD AL: “Center for Business & Parliamentary Dialog”, is an institution of public right, independent and non-profitable in Albania.Its fundamental functions are:
1.representing the business community at regional, national and international level;
2.providing services to its members (business information; consulting; trainings; organization of trade promotion activities; protection of industrial property; executive services, etc.);
3.providing contribution in studies and projects on the economic and social development of the Tirana Region and the country.
CBPD has good experience in leading concerted actions involving many economic, and social actors; in communication and dissemination of information; in publishing brochures and information materials; in research and development, in organizing business missions, fairs, seminars, training courses and consulting in aid of SME-s in different fields, such as management, tourism, agricultural, quality management, exportation, intellectual property, etc. It has good experience in building databases and using information technology in business information systems.
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