Project description
New HR models for Southern European SMEs
Radical changes in how businesses manage and organise their human resources are underway in Greece and Italy. Moving away from the traditional workplace mentality, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the regions of Sicily and Thessaly were deliberately selected to give rise to a multiplier effect. The EU-funded INNovaSouth project will introduce an innovative model of best practices to help the SMEs increase employee motivation and productivity. Specifically, it will develop an online manual of good practices and an online training course for SME managers and staff. The overall result will boost entrepreneurial dynamism and spread to other companies.
Objective
The aim of INNovaSouth project is to stimulate Southern European SMEs to implement new organizational models for the management of human resources and innovative solutions for the modernization of the workplace.
The INNovaSouth innovative model of best practices of non-technological innovation will allow Italian and Greek SMEs to find simple, immediate and innovative solutions to increase employee’s motivation and productivity, which will be translated into added value for the business and more benefits for the entrepreneurs.
The piloting scheme will be initially implemented in Sicily and Thessaly regions, giving rise to a multiplier effect boosted by a targeted dissemination strategy conceived and implemented by partners.
The model designed will be developed within an Online Manual of Good Practice on Workplace Innovations based on a four-quadrant matrix, resulting from two categorisations of practices and workplace innovations. The categories are defined according to the economic nature of the solutions (Monetary and Non-Monetary Innovations) and the grade of complexity for the implementation of those actions (Short-term and Long-term Innovations).
To adopt effectively these solutions, vouchers with value of € 8.000 funded by H2020 Programme, will be provided to be spent on workplace innovations activities, goods, and tools. Voucher provision will be regulated through an open call for projects that will ensure funds for 24 companies in the regions. In addition, SMEs managers and employees will have the chance to follow an online training programme in ICT WPI System offered by partners that will improve their competences in several topics.
This new context-based mechanisms could attract more skilled workforce and generate entrepreneurial dynamism and widespread prosperity, stimulating other companies to adopt similar mechanisms.
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs
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H2020-EU.2.3.2.2. - Enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEs
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CSA - Coordination and support action
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(opens in new window) H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2020
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95129 Catania
Italy
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
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