The Interreg Sudoe SustForest Plus project has organised a free training action aimed at entrepreneurship, associativism and cooperativism in the resin sector in Spain for those people who are starting their business project in the resin sector or other rural entrepreneurship environment, or who want to start in it.
It will be given from 29 September to 1 November in a mixed format, adapting the format to the classroom and/or online depending on the composition of the participating group and the situation of the pandemic caused by the Coronavirus. The duration of the course is 100 hours, divided into 50 hours of theory and 50 hours of practice.
Theoretically, students will be trained in the legal, juridical and financial aspects of starting or consolidating a project for different types of companies, and will be shown the main working tools for managing the project and its business impulse. In terms of practical training, students will learn about the experiences of other similar projects developed in Spain as a model to follow due to the success they have achieved. In addition, they will be able to visit centres and/or leading companies in the resin sector in the following way: depending on the circumstances arising from COVID at the time, and the geographical origin of the students, the organisation will design the best way for the students to get to know and learn about other companies and centres in the sector that will serve as inspiration for their projects.
Course programme :
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Types of Cooperatives Identity Values Cooperativism Associations of Resin Growers |
Theoretical session |
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Visit to an environmental education centre on forest harvesting |
Practical session 1 |
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Prototyping CANVAS value idea |
Practical session 2 |
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Example of a company with diversification of forest uses: timber, mycological, cultural resources |
Practical session 3 |
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Sharing of the CANVAS (II) |
Practical session 4 |
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What is business accounting. What accounting is for. How to keep basic accounts. Annual balance sheet / annual accounts. How to make accounting entries. TAXATION Register books and document management. Tax filing. |
Theoretical session |
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Subsidies and aid for the work of resin workers: aid for the self-employed, aid for women entrepreneurs (AMADRINANET), etc. Lines of financing from rural banks, ICO credits. How to capitalise unemployment. Micro-patronage and crowdfunding platforms. |
Theoretical session |
| Tenders and competitions |
Practical Session 5 |
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Study of real projects initiated in rural areas, business plans, search for funding. |
Practical session 6 |
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Corporate, economic and fiscal aspects of cooperatives. Cooperativism and Solidarity Economy. The Cooperative Company, process of creation and operation. The importance of co-operatives as instruments of social cohesion. |
Theoretical session |
| Round table on the governance ofcooperatives |
Practical session 7 |
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Decision-making, teamwork, governance, internal communication. |
Theoretical session |
| Content on resin exploitation |
Practical session 8 |
| The process of re-entrepreneurship |
Practical session 9 |
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Creating the company's image, image-message coherence. Communication channels |
Theoretical session |
MODULE 7. OCCUPATIONAL RISK PREVENTION
| Autonomous work of the course attendee |
Theoretical session |
| Drawing up and presentation of the business plan |
Theoretical session |
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Presentations of business plans Closing of the course |
Practical session 10 |
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About the SustForest Plus project
The SustForest Plus project SOE2/P5/E0598 "Strategy and collaborative networks for multifunctionality, conservation and employment in the territory of Southern Europe through resin extraction" runs from 2018 to 2021, is co-financed by the Interreg Sudoe Programme through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and aims to improve the joint management methods of the natural resin sources of the Sudoe territory as a strategic and preferential resource for the industry, job creation and rational use of natural resources.
Sust Forest Plus is an initiative promoted by the main agents of the natural resin value chain in Spain, France and Portugal to boost the economic activity of the sector with three objectives:
The beneficiary partners of the project are the following entities: Fundación Centro de Servicios y Promoción Forestal y de su Industria de Castilla y León (Cesefor), Centre Nacional de la Propriété Forestière (CNPF), Institut Européen De La Foret Cultivée, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária (INIAV), Municipality of Penela, Municipality of Proença-a-Nova and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).
The project has also been supported by other entities related to the natural resins sector and belonging to the SUDOE territory (Tunisia, Greece and Italy) which participate as associated partners of the project, which are: Associação das Indústrias de Madeira e Mobiliário de Portugal (AIMMP), Associação Florestal do Vale do Douro Norte (Aflorodounorte), Certis - Controlo e Certificação, Lda, Decentralised Administration of Epirus-Western Macedonia, Diputación Provincial de Soria, Essência Química - Resinas e Derivados, Eurorègion Nouvelle Aquitaine-Euskadi-Navarre, Federación de Asociaciones Forestales de Castilla y León (FAFCYLE), Groupement de Producteurs Foresteurs Forestiers du sud Gironde (CPFA), Holiste Laboratoires et Developpement, Industrial Resinera Valcan, S. A. (IRV), Instituto de Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas (ICNF), National Institute for Research in Rural Engineering Water and Forestry (INRGREF), Junta de Castilla y León, Luresa Resinas, S. L., Pôle de compétitivité Xylofutur, Quercus - Associação Nacional de Conservação da Natureza, Resipinus - Associação de Destiladores e Exploradores de Resina, Rincón de la Vega S.A.L., Sociedad de Resinas Naturales, S.A., Unione Di Comuni Valdarno E Valdisieve and United Ressins - Produção de Resinas S.A. and the Centro de Investigación forestal de Lourizán.
