S-Circel: Social and Circular Ecosystems with a focus on progression to paid employment

Opportunities for sustainable employment for our target group can be found, among other things, in the growing circular economy. After all, the transition to a more circular model will - in addition to ecological and economic added value - also create important social effects, especially in terms of employment. The circular labor market offers opportunities for people with different levels of education, where there is also - and even especially - demand for short- and medium-skilled profiles to help support this transition. Consequently, circular economy could mean a boost for the sustainable (regular) employment of people distanced from the labor market.

In this project we focus on 2 bottlenecks:

• Bottleneck 1: offering and filling (new) sustainable circular jobs.
• Bottleneck 2: establishing new partnerships between managers.

Both bottlenecks benefit from mapping the desired competencies.

We formulate 2 objectives in this project:

• Objective 1: develop competency profiles for circular jobs aimed at short- and medium-skilled people with a distance to the labor market.
• Objective 2: develop a competency model for managers who wish to engage in social-circular collaboration and co-creation.