The context and focus of VISIT was to develop existing & new innovative services with SMEs on Nauvo-Korppoo-Seili, Fehmarn, Vis, Öland and Paxi-Corfu islands to boost local regions. HEI staff & students developed their knowledge & skills in different geographical regions, entrepreneurship, cultures & transversal skills, forming a sustainable network with SMEs for future cooperation. The background lay in the joint need to develop services on European islands with Higher Education.VISIT’s objectives were to form an international strategic partnership to train students & SMEs on islands to develop new services with HEIs and islands and to develop services with them; enhance entrepreneurial skills and cultural competences; develop an online community with self-study module for SMEs& students; develop services in HEI courses with SMEs via online community in the future; provide internships for students on islands. VISIT supported social inclusion. VISIT was established to promote international island tourism development, with combined competences of partners as added value & demand of international collaboration between islands (ESPON).The project involved five HEIs: Laurea UAS Finland, Kiel UAS Germany, TEI of Epirus Greece, Linneaus University Sweden, VERN’, Croatia. TEI left the project due to a merger. RGU (UK) joined VISIT but left due to the pandemic and Brexit issues. The five islands and their representatives were associated partners. The HEIs provided versatile expertise in many fields, e.g., Design Thinking, Business & Multimedia Marketing, ICT, Tourism & Hospitality Management, Entrepreneurship, geographical knowledge in tourism and business. VISIT engaged 27 businesses during the project, 201 students in ISPs (on location or online); approx. ten teachers each time of the 7 ISPs, in total 917 ECTS for students. In addition, VISIT has been integrated in some partners’ study units during the years, offering groups of students the possibility to to study about services on islands, generating more knowledge and ECTS. In total 17 students have worked as project assistants, also, earning ECTS and learning. VISIT designed and innovated new services for SMEs on the islands with students. Internships at SMEs on islands were planned to help businesses to implement the developed services but due to the pandemic it could not happen. VISIT created different documents e.g. Service Logic Business Model Canvases, and Innovative Business Plans for the SMEs. VISIT compiled Case Studies of the business plans and SLBMCs. The project created VISIT training, learning & internship blended material for ISPs, as well as an online community (self-study material, interactive cooperation, a learning environment for HEIs & SMEs). The activities were analyzed and results researched to define sustainability and transferability, published in VISIT Handbook to promote the transfer and exploitation of results. VISIT organized a successful online conference as their multiplier event. The project results are: Online Community for insular entrepreneurs & HEIs (VISIT Online Community Intranet); internships for students after the project; VISIT Model for integration of innovative tourism services at local companies; Business Model Case Study Guidelines; VISIT Case Studies (based on innovative business plans/SLBMCs); VISIT Training, Learning and Internship blended material (Technical & soft skills for students to bring to companies and learning outcomes they should receive from internships); VISIT Online Self-study module with relevant terminology for innovative services, course material; VISIT Handbook of project results & how to be transferred to other territories & HEIs; VISIT Workbook to learn services development; 1591 new service ideas for the islands; trained students in ISPs (201); new high quality skills for professional use, civic & intercultural competences, design skills, entrepreneurial skills; one multiplier event.The long-term benefits of the project include the possibilities of strengthening the islands’ economy, generating new jobs, steady income, increasing sustainable tourism activities, international networking and further training with other SMEs in Online Community, engaging students and SMEs in the Online Community in learning, new projects, cooperation with partners to develop more services and businesses with the islands.

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To design and develop an online integrated Human Resources management software service.

The consenting of offshore renewable energy is often cited as one of the main non-technical barriers to the development of this sector. A significant aspect of this is the uncertainty inherent in the potential environmental impacts of novel technology. To ensure consents are compliant with EU and national legislation, such as the Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Directive, costly and time consuming surveys are required even for required even for perceived lower risk technologies in sites which may not be of highest environmental sensitivity. It is therefore the aim of the RiCORE project to establish a risk-based approach to consenting where the level of survey requirement is based on the environmental sensitivity of the site, the risk profile of the technology and the scale of the proposed project. RiCORE will study the legal framework in place in the partner Member States to ensure the framework developed will be applicable for roll out across these Member States and further afield. The next stage of the RiCORE project is to consider the practices, methodologies and implementation of pre-consent surveys, post-consent and post-deployment monitoring. This will allow a feedback loop to inform the development of the risk-based framework for the environmental aspects of consent and provide best practice. The project will achieve these aims by engaging with the relevant stakeholders including the regulators, industry and EIA practitioners, through a series of expert workshops and developing their outcomes into guidance. The impact of the project will be to improve, in line with the requirements of the Renewable Energy Directive specifically Article 13 (1), consenting processes to ensure cost efficient delivery of the necessary surveys, clear and transparent reasoning for work undertaken, improving knowledge sharing and reducing the non-technical barriers to the development of the Offshore Renewable Energy sector so it can deliver the clean, secure energy

To replace existing decision-making infrastructure with a digital system to capture and utilise data across the whole business; to promote organisational efficiency and to capture and retain knowledge, safeguarding against mass-scale knowledge loss through imminent retirements.