The initiative was born with the aim of promoting the consolidation and creation of green employment, as well as encouraging work with two key elements: innovation and financing. Elements that advance in parallel and are interrelated throughout the project.

The initiative was born with the aim of promoting the consolidation and creation of green employment, as well as encouraging work with two key elements: innovation and financing. Elements that advance in parallel and are interrelated throughout the project.

In this way, with the “Finance and Innovate” initiative, companies and entrepreneurs will receive information, training and advice on financing and environmental and business technical innovation.

From technical innovation, tools applied to environmental management will be worked on:

• New tools for the planning and management of forest and environmental resources: LIDAR technology, internet mapping, Geographic Information Systems, modelling.
• Practical methodologies for the calculation, reduction and compensation of the carbon footprint in companies and educational centres.

The business innovation proposed by the project will show tools and experiences to be able to access new business niches and consolidate existing employment: social networks, ICTs, forms of entrepreneurship and innovation programs, etc. Likewise, the “Emprende Cooperativo” network will be created, which will put cooperatives in the environmental sector of the different communities participating in the project in contact.

Finally, in the financing section, currently existing formulas for the financing of environmental projects for SMEs, micro-SMEs and the self-employed will be shown.

The recipients of the training actions will be:

• Workers in SMEs and micro-SMEs, in the environmental, education or other sectors, with an interest in the application of new innovation and financing formulas and the potential for conversion into sustainable activities.
• Self-employed, from the environmental sector or other sectors with interest.
• Unemployed, professionals in the environmental and education sector or other sectors with an interest.

Through this initiative, training will be provided to 130 recipients, although the project will reach a total of 422 workers. In addition, new lines of business (environmental improvement, new environmental deposits) will be launched in three companies. On the other hand, 10% of those attending the training action will use new social networks at the corporate level.