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EU ECO-TANDEM actors: meet your sustainable pilgrims!

EU ECO-TANDEM PROGRAMME | Oct. 29, 2020

People across the globe will have to deal with the challenges posed by climate change. It affects in different ways and with different strengths, but common everywhere is that an effective preventive effort is needed, based on new knowledge, technological effort and good planning. All in which is implemented in the EU ECO-TANDEM project - a project focusing on changing the tourism sector to a greener and more sustainable field, making a difference on our unique planet!

The ECO-TANDEM PROGRAMME Programme will be implemented by a very well balanced Consortium, a constellation of partners from the tourism, education and training (specifically in the field of sustainable and responsible tourism), business support organisations, incubators and accelerators with a long track-record in providing training, promoting tourism, providing business support services to SMEs and start-up, with a specific focus on innovation and in the social impact


X23 srl (Project Coordinator) is a business support organisation based in Milan and Rome bringing over 25 years’ private sector expertise in supporting new entrepreneurs, established businesses and corporates. X23 is committed to innovation and to boost the growth potential of innovative start-up and SMEs to compete at EU and global level.


Social Fare is the first Center for Social Innovation in Italy and a social impact incubator certificated by the Italian Ministry for Economic Development. It accelerates the best social impact startups - ideas that can develop innovative solutions for pressing social challenges - selected through the international call FOUNDAMENTA. The startups and enterprises accelerated by SocialFare are supported financially by SocialFare Seed and have the opportunity to present in front of a prestigious panel of investors during the Social Impact Investor Day.


The Italian National Tourist Board has been founded in 1919 as ENIT (Ente Nazionale Italiano per l’Incremento delle Industrie Turistiche). - the Italian National Tourist Board - is supervised by the Ministry in charge of tourism and adopts its own accounting and administration regulations in working for the Italian System to promote the Country all over the world. In the next few years, Italy’s tourism development will be focused on a value growth to generate economic, social and cultural sustainability, as to increase the value of the territories and businesses, as well as market relevance, and brand positioning.P3. The Italian National Tourist Board has been founded in 1919 as ENIT (Ente Nazionale Italiano per l’Incremento delle Industrie Turistiche). - the Italian National Tourist Board - is supervised by the Ministry in charge of tourism and adopts its own accounting and administration regulations in working for the Italian System to promote the Country all over the world. In the next few years, Italy’s tourism development will be focused on a value growth to generate economic, social and cultural sustainability, as to increase the value of the territories and businesses, as well as market relevance, and brand positioning.


The Italian Chamber of Commerce for Germany (ITKAM) It is a German registered non-profit bilateral association, founded 1911. ITKAM has three offices in Germany, Frankfurt am Main (Headquarter) Berlin and Leipzig as well as representative offices in Italy and Austria. ITKAM counts over 500 member companies. In 2017 they gave assistance to 3.000 companies, creating for them 3.500 international business contacts. ITKAM operates as a business network and acts as a gathering point offering enterprises a full range of services, such as consultancy to SMEs in business development and internationalization.


Leipzig Graduated School of Management (HLL) is a private business school in Germany. Founded 120 years ago in 1889 by local entrepreneurs in Leipzig, HHL has today established itself as a premier provider of graduate management education and -research in Germany and Europe. HHL currently offers five study programs: a full-time and a part-time Master Program in Management (M.Sc.), a full-time and a part-time Master Program in General Management (MBA) as well as an Executive MBA program. As a university-level institution, HHL also offers a doctoral program leading to a PhD in Management.


The Slovak Business Agency (SBA) is the key and oldest specialized non-profit organization for the support of SMEs in Slovakia. SBA was founded in 1993 by a common initiative of the EU and the Government of the Slovak Republic. It is a unique platform of public and private sectors and for more than 25 years has been supporting development and growth of Slovak SMEs. SBA provides a complex support to SMEs at the national, regional and local level and improves their competitiveness within the single EU market as well as in the non- EU markets


The University is ranked as one of Austria’s principal intellectual institutions. The Faculty of Environmental, Regional and Educational Sciences (URBI) is committed particularly to sustainable futures and hosts the Regional Centre for Expertise (RCE Graz-Styria) that fosters regional, national and global co-operations and empowers strategies to implement sustainable development, being experienced in analysing and planning future regional developments relying on an inter- and transdisciplinary approach. 


ARGE provides services in the fields of sustainable development and municipal waste management mainly for public organizations, authorities, public institutions, social and private enterprises. The products are (online) training courses, seminars, conferences, events, working groups, networks, publications, documentation, research, communication processes, concepts, consulting and lobbying for thematic issues. ARGE developed and established the profession municipal environment and waste adviser in Austria. 


GE was created in the midst of the climate change era by a group of environmental, engineering, financial and legal experts who are specialists in environment, energy and carbon finance. Through innovative technical & financial services, GE’s vision is to help in the creation of a sustainable and secure future based on a carbon-neutral model where individuals and firms make their own contribution. GE designs and implements strategies and projects on greenhouse gas management, including assessing, accounting, reducing and offsetting the carbon footprint of business service operations, manufactured products.

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