The Surefoot Effect, Community Interest Company
surefoot-effect.com
Sustainability. Resilience. Step by step.
The Surefoot Effect, based in Paisley, Scotland, equips people with lifelong skills for sustainability. Our approach is values-based and transformational.
People are at the heart of what we do. Infrastructure and technology matter, but the whole-hearted commitment of people is the essential ingredient for change.
When people have:
- space to think
- time to explore motives and feelings, and
- leadership that inspires
…they create their own paths towards positive, long-lasting change.
We encourage people to explore their emotions, motivations and behaviours and to make positive changes around energy and resource use. In turn, they are able to create and share their own path forward.
Not surprisingly, this simple human ripple effect ensures each wave adds to the momentum. Each new step forward leads to significant and long-lasting change.
We work with individuals, community groups, public bodies and corporate organisations.
The Surefoot Effect has found that people respond to different approaches in taking up action on Climate Change.
Our current programmes are:
Resilience Workshops
Facilitator Training
Climate Justice
Future Conversations
Climate change awareness and action
And another Erasmus + project: A Tale of Two Futures. The Surefoot Effect along with Dom Spain from Spain and Ziniu Kodas from Lithuania, secured funding for an Erasmus+ project with a focus on communicating solutions to climate change at the local, European and national levels.
The project adapted the Carbon Conversations programme to the cultural contexts of Spain and Lithuania and produced new guides in both Spanish and Lithuanian. Energy saving and carbon emissions reduction projects around the world were gathered onto an online open interactive platform. Individuals and organisations were encouraged to replicate some of the stories available in the platform.
ENTER – European Network for Transfer and Exploitation of EU project Results
E.N.T.E.R. was founded in 2005 with the goal of providing a platform for exchange at the European level and beyond. Our main focus has been on exploiting and disseminating EU project results and on creating a platform for developing project teams, distributing information and assisting stakeholders in actively promoting their projects across the continent.Over the years, our network has grown to over 900 members from 44 countries that we continuously update about the outcomes and results of a wide variety of EU projects. As a partner in EU projects, E.N.T.E.R. offers a large project and partner database, network newsletters, updates about news and results in the EU project community and the skills and experience necessary to organise events such as conferences and project fairs. Using all available marketing tools, we draw on our expertise in EU project marketing to promote and disseminate projects and their results. E.N.T.E.R. also puts a strong emphasis on being a reliable partner for content related project work such as research, development, compiling teaching and learning materials, and more. Additionally, E.N.T.E.R. publishes a magazine called Focus Europe which puts the spotlight on European developments and projects.Our current project involvements can be found here: www.enter-network.eu/our-work/enter-projects
Volontariato Torino
Volontariato Torino – Vol.To is the Volunteer Support Centre of Turin. Vol.To is an umbrella non profit organization with 160 member organisations and a network of more than 1300 voluntary associations. Vol.To serves as Service Centre for Voluntary Associations according to the national regulations for volunteering.
Vision and Mission
Our vision is a future in which the distinctive features of volunteering – free and self-giving, reciprocity and trust, passion and spirit of initiative, responsibility and care for each other – will be a guide for individual and collective challenges.
Our Mission is to qualify and support volunteers in order to enable them to seize opportunities and take individual paths of development. For this purpose we develop projects to increase the interest in voluntary works as well as build tailor-made learning paths on the needs of volunteers.
Vol.To works to provide free services (such as training, consultancy, planning assistance) to assist the voluntary associations in the Province of Turin. Thanks to its key position within the volunteering network in Turin and in Italy, Vol.to aims at generate new opportunities for the territory.Vol.To is also a member of CSVnet, the Italian National Coordination of Service Centres, where it is represented within the board of directors. It’s a full member of CEV – the European Centre of Volunteering in Brussels. Since 2016, Vol.To is also the official Eurodesk Centre of the City of Turin. Eurodesk is one of the most comprehensive and most accessible network – which consists of 1.300 local points in 34 European Countries – providing free information for the youth about international mobility opportunities connected with learning, training, volunteering and working and also a first source of free counseling and help for the organisations and the informal groups in order they can approach the European project planning.
Centre For Education And Entrepreneurship Support
Centre For Education And Entrepreneurship Support (CWEP) is an non-governmental organization founded in 2004 by group of entrepreneurs, teachers and social activists from Rzeszów. CWEP cooperates with businesses and educational institutions. Mission of CWEP is to increase the quality of education training at all levels and in all its forms as well as to promote entrepreneurship in order to foster integration of any social group regardless of gender, age and ethnic origin. The aim of the CWEP is to promote and implement the best solutions that serve this purpose. Particularly, the aims are to improve accessibility, quality and efficiency of education of all people, to promote and contribute to adult education, life-long learning, e-learning and the usage of new technologies in education and entrepreneurship. The Association works with many partners from Europe in order to strengthen economic position of enterprises and provides on-line platform for companies.