Our goal is to equip learners with essential skills for smart and circular entrepreneurship, enabling them to drive the transition to a circular economy and AI adoption in the small service sector, with a special focus on tourism and retail. Explore, Learn, Innovate!e-LLab
What is SMART and CIRCULAR entrepreneurship?
Smart and Circular entrepreneurship combines innovative, technology-driven approaches (SMART) with sustainable, resource-efficient practices (CIRCULAR). It focuses on creating business models that leverage digital tools, AI, and smart solutions while prioritizing the reuse, recycling, and reduction of resources to minimize waste. This approach not only drives economic growth but also supports environmental sustainability and resilience.
What can adopting artificial intelligence (AI) bring to my business?
Adopting artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance efficiency by automating repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on strategic activities. It provides valuable insights through data analysis, enabling better decision-making and personalized customer experiences. Additionally, AI can help optimize operations, reduce costs, and drive innovation, giving your business a competitive edge.
What do we offer?
The SMART CIRCLE partners are joining forces to design a new generation of training tools and learning resources that will empower VET learners, trainers, and small service entrepreneurs in the tourism and retail sectors understand how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can drive circular entrepreneurship, improve business efficiency, and support the transition towards a greener and smarter economy. We'll do this through the development of the:
SMART CIRCLE e-Database - a curated collection of 120 customer-ready AI tools tailored for small service enterprises, showing how smart technologies can enhance sustainability, productivity, and innovation.
Circular Roadmap Planning Tools - practical, step-by-step guidelines that help businesses design and implement their own circular strategies, integrating digital and green principles into daily operations.
VET Curriculum & Digital Stories - an innovative training programme for VET trainers and learners, featuring real-life stories of small businesses successfully combining AI and circular economy principles to achieve smarter, more sustainable growth.
SMART CIRCLE e-Lab - an interactive online learning platform offering engaging, multimedia-based training modules that connect circular thinking with digital innovation, fostering collaboration and lifelong learning.
young people that are about to start work and further education, students attending the last year of qualification (Tourism, Retail trade, Business Administration)
non-formal learners in the small tourism and retail sectors (active workforce, including employees and aspiring entrepreneurs)
teachers/trainers involved in training for tourism, retail trade or entrepreneurship education.
organisations involved in entrepreneurship education. The project will equip them with methods and tools for delivering quality education in smart and circular entrepreneurship
