Strona: Concept / Ecolabelling

Concept

2021-10-18
, red. Marzena Jankowska-Mihułowicz

The role of environmental labelling programs is large and steadily growing globally. Whereas the number of ecolabel schemes, until 2012 was 544 in the world [source: OECD, 2016], simultaneously the common formal educational tools and trained teachers in this field, were lacking. The absence of university courses covering distinctly in a complex way the systems of environmental labels and declarations is the problem in many regions and academia of the Visegrad countries, including Rzeszów, Košice, České Budějovice, Győr. The current situation should be changed to benefit from new opportunities addressed by the Circular Economy Package (CEP) of the European Union (EU), a part of a transformation policy towards a new economic system, i.e. circular economy. One of such transformation tools are systems of environmental labels and declarations considered as strategies on innovations supporting the business. The open availability of new educational tools and teacher capacity in environmental labelling should increase the awareness of consumers who create a demand for ecolabelled goods and are the main determinant of ecolabels diffusion in the EU. The outcomes of the project will result in better effectiveness of enterprises and public administration in Visegrad countries when applying for EU financing. The participation of partner from Serbia should improve the knowledge dissemination among Serbians (consumers, students, and enterprises, especially start-ups) on the EU trends, the compliance of EU standards in Serbian society and finally their competitiveness in the EU markets.

The project aims at solving the following problems:

a) lack of the course on environmental labels and declarations in the consortium regions,

b) lack of sufficient educational tools on environmental labelling in national languages,

c) lack of trained teachers for lecturing on the systems of environmental labelling,

d) lack of consolidated, publicly available as open access e-learning materials on systems of
environmental labelling,

e) lack of scientific knowledge on the nature of single regions in Visegrad countries e.g.: determinants of regional
interest in environmental labelling programs, experiences and good practices of different regions in the realization of the ecolabelling programs,

f) lack of scientific knowledge among Serbians on factors, macroeconomic barriers, and market needs, which define the business success in a regional scale among the EU countries.

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