Facilitating Organisational Innovation – FLOURISH

The demand for innovation exposes a critical gap: a lack of innovation skills, knowledge and training across most organizations. Given that the majority of European SMEs are involved in global value chains, constant innovation and efficiency are a must to ensure competitiveness in a global context. That has implications for skills and work organisation practices. The growing specialization of knowledge will increasingly be based on collaborative teams, whose integration requires sophisticated social technologies to produce collective innovation.

The general aim of the project is to support the uptake of organisational innovation by SMEs across Europe through the development, piloting and implementation of a holistic innovation coaching methodology using a multilevel approach - individual, group and organization.

The main goal will be reached through the accomplishment of several specific objectives:

1. To create the professional profile of the Organisational Innovation Coach for SMEs;

2. To develop a holistic training course for Organisational Innovation Coaches based on the APGICO'S participative innovation model and Creative Problem-Solving protocol;

3. To create an effective refresher training tool for the Innovation Coaches;

4. To create a solid foundation for ensuring the usability of the course by a wider VET audience;

5. To increase the awareness of EU business and VET community about the importance of organizational innovation and create the necessary supporting culture for that;

6. To provide EU SMEs with open educational resources in the field of organizational innovation.

Following the FLOURISH methodology SMEs will be able to introduce new forms of work organisation, ensure stronger employee participation in innovation processes, advance the managerial techniques and draw lessons to build on in their continuous improvement.

FLOURISH is targeted at: SMEs top and middle managers, employees, management and innovation consultants, training companies and VET providers, people responsible for innovation or HR management, and business-related young graduates.

Project coordinator:

ECQ Ltd., Bulgaria

Partners:

Apgico, Portugal
AidLearn, Portugal
SPOLECZNA AKADEMIA NAUK, Poland
Kaunas Science and Technology Park, Lithuania
CSMKIK, Hungary

Project activities (achievements):

December 10-13, 2018 – Kaunas STP hosted the project Kick-off meeting and short staff trainings

March 2019 – partners conducted interviews in order to create the professional profile of the Organisational Innovation Coach for SMEs

March 2019 – FLOURISH Facebook page was launched.

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