inFUELencer – Promoting Alternative Paths for Fuel Retailers

Field: Vocational Education and Training

Project number: 2025-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000351659

Project duration: 01.11.2025 – 30.04.2028

About the Project

The InFUELencer project is a strategic Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnership (KA220-VET) designed to support fuel retail businesses in navigating the transition toward a carbon-neutral economy.
Our mission is to provide these businesses with the specialised knowledge, strategic tools, and green skills needed to ensure long-term viability. Key project results include:

  • InFUELencer Curriculum: A sector-specific training framework tailored to business viability and green transformation.
  • E-Learning Platform: An accessible digital hub featuring self-assessment tools, a Needs Identification Tool, and multimedia resources to facilitate self-paced learning.
  • Capacity Building: Practical workshops and ‘train-the-trainers’ sessions that bridge the gap between policy requirements and real-world business application.

The primary target groups of the inFUELencer project include:

  • Fuel retailers: including owners, managers and strategic decision-makers operating fuel retail businesses;
  • VET trainers and educators: entities involved in vocational education and training, with special focus on those entities which are related to sustainability, energy, circular economy, mobility, retail and business management.

Partnership

Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) – Germany

Since its founding in 1828, TUD has contributed significantly to transformations in society and science. They were able to fulfil this mission by continually transforming themselves as an institution.

Since the reunification of Germany, their university has developed into a leading international institution that combines global impact with regional responsibility. Its status as a University of Excellence since 2012 has been a key driver in this regard.

Their research contributes to transformative solutions for the challenges of the 21st Century. They combine study and teaching with their cutting-edge research and play a leading role in technology transfer. The way they see themselves is a reflection of their history, describes what makes them unique, and it guides them as they continue to grow: TUD – The Collaborative University: inventive. transformative. Engaged.

Website: https://tu-dresden.de/startseite?set_language=en

LinkedIn 1: https://www.linkedin.com/school/tu-dresden/posts/?feedView=all

LinkedIn 2: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wiwi-tu-dresden/posts/?feedView=all

CCI CREUSE – France

Created in 1899, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Creuse is a public institution run by business chiefs elected by their peers to represent and defend the interests of 5000 businesses. It employs 20 people.

The CCI is an important player in the economic activity of the Creuse area, taking part in all decisions concerning business and local economic development planning.

Its management methods, skills and resources allow it to play a major role in advising and supporting companies. It also offers a wide-ranging, constantly updated training programs in the field of apprenticeships and continuing education.

Website: https://www.creuse.cci.fr/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CCICreuse/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28974503/

DIAS VET – Greece

DIAS VET is an education and counselling organisation accredited by the Greek National Organisation for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance (EOPPEP). It was established in 2009 in Karditsa and today operates through additional offices in Athens and other Greek cities.

As an accredited VET centre, it works with certified trainers and delivers vocational training at the national and European level. Its main target groups are adult learners, both employed and unemployed, including people at risk of exclusion from the labour market. DIAS VET follows the National and European Qualifications Frameworks and promotes lifelong learning that is closely linked to labour market needs and local development.

It delivers continuing VET programmes that combine theory with work-based learning and internships. It also implements programmes for the unemployed, the self-employed, and people seeking to upgrade their skills. In recent years, DIAS VET has developed strong expertise in innovation, entrepreneurship, and internationalisation. In parallel, it actively participates in European cooperations, including ERASMUS+ projects.

Website: https://kek-dias.gr/programs/evropaika.html

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/diasvetltd
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dias-vet-educational-organization-eu-projects_performs-journey-comes-to-a-successful-close-activity-7389597177943154689-cQ7h

e-Space – Poland

e-Space is a versatile IT and consulting company based in Poland, dedicated to providing high-quality digital solutions and organisational support. The company bridges the gap between complex technological infrastructure and the practical requirements of businesses, educational institutions, and private individuals. Key areas of e-Space expertise include:

  • Comprehensive IT Services: e-Space specialises in the design, implementation and maintenance of computer systems and networks. Their expertise includes professional diagnostics for specialised hardware, as well as software support.
  • Infrastructure Management: The company ensures the long-term health of IT environments through remote backups and systematic maintenance, offering a cost-effective alternative to maintaining full-time, in-house IT departments.
  • Tailored Business and Educational Support: Beyond technical services, e-Space is deeply involved in supporting the business and educational sectors. They have a network of contacts among VET trainers and youth mentors to deliver bespoke solutions that foster growth and digital literacy.
  • Local and International Collaboration: While operating with a strong local presence in Poland, e-Space acts as a reliable partner in diverse projects, providing the technical backbone and organisational agility required for successful cross-sector cooperation.

Website: https://e-space.com.pl/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/e-space/?viewAsMember=true

GRINCO – Greece

Green Innovative Company (GRINCO) is a Greek industrial company specialising in alternative fuels production, supporting the transition to a low-carbon and sustainable economy. Established in 2005 and based in the Industrial Area of Larissa, Greece, GRINCO operates a modern biodiesel production facility compliant with European quality, safety and environmental standards to produce EN 14214–compliant biodiesel from renewable feedstocks, including energy crops and recycled used cooking oils. Combining green technologies and innovation, GRINCO contributes to fossil fuels replacements with biodiesel while investing in research and development projects for process optimisation and production of next-generation biofuels. Supported by a strong network of feedstock partners, GRINCO strengthens local value chains and contributes to the EU’s climate and energy objectives through offering sustainable, renewable fuel solutions.

Website: https://www.grinco.gr/en/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Grinco-Green-Innovative-Company/61574206071417/

Microfinanza Srl – Italy

Microfinanza Srl promotes initiatives in the field of financial inclusion, for the development of technical and social innovations, for the benefit of vulnerable people and communities with the aim to work with them to foster ideas and knowledge and to promote autonomous improvement in their lives. In more than 25 years of experience, Microfinanza has acquired an in-depth knowledge of the access to finance and social and financial inclusion challenges. It has developed its own working methodology and tools to provide services and technical assistance to support both, the supply and demand sides. Main fields of operations are represented by: Financial Services Providers strategy, management and performance, financial behaviours and financial education trainings, blended and innovative finance schemes, rural finance and green microfinance assistance and training, social performance and poverty probability index, market infrastructures, credit lending models as well as mentor and support the starting-up of new enterprises with financial and non-financial services and delivery of training, coaching, and mentoring services.

Since its inception, Microfinanza Srl has developed and implemented more than one hundred and fifty projects in a large number of countries all over the world (Europe, the Bankans, sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Southeast Asia, MENA Region, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Latin America and the Caribbean) and has partnered with more than a hundred organisations worldwide.

We work on research activities, networking and planning of financial inclusion themes, providing training, coaching, mentoring and access to finance services pursuing the mission of fostering social and economic inclusion of the targeted beneficiaries and among disadvantaged groups (migrants/refugees, unemployed, youth, women). Focus can be summarised as follows:

  • Entrepreneurial training and empowerment programs
  • Business modelling and planning
  • Financial Education and Literacy
  • Green microfinance
  • Access to credit and alternative finance

Website: https://www.microfinanza.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microfinanza-srl/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/microfinanzasrl/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/microfinanza.srl/

Talentbrücke GmbH & Co. KG – Germany

TALENTBRÜCKE GmbH & Co. KG is a Cologne-based company dedicated to discovering potential and connecting people across education, labour markets, and borders. With a strong focus on qualitative, innovative career guidance, TALENTBRÜCKE designs and implements holistic solutions for schools, public authorities, NGOs, and businesses in Germany and across Europe. As one of the largest providers of potential analyses in North Rhine-Westphalia, TALENTBRÜCKE and its network of licensed partners have accompanied more than 200,000 students at around 350 secondary schools, closely aligned with the “Kein Abschluss ohne Anschluss” (KAoA) transition system.

Beyond school-based diagnostics, TALENTBRÜCKE has coordinated and participated in almost 20 international (mostly Erasmus+) projects, working with over 40 partners from 14 countries on topics such as skills assessment in prisons, intercultural competence, digital readiness, job orientation, and serious games.

The company also operates the talents4.eu recruitment brand, using modular assessment procedures to recruit and match skilled workers – particularly educators and other professionals – from Spain, Italy and beyond to employers in Germany.

The multidisciplinary team brings together business economists, psychologists, an educational scientist, a social scientist, an HR specialist, and a pool of student assistants from psychology, pedagogy, and business. This mix allows TALENTBRÜCKE to combine rigorous diagnostics with inclusive, empowering approaches tailored to diverse target groups, including young people in transition phases, NEETs, prisoners, and jobseekers. Across all activities, TALENTBRÜCKE is committed to sustainable use of project results and to fostering long-term partnerships that make talent development more fair, accessible, and future-oriented.

Website: https://talentbruecke.de/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/talentbr-cke-gmbh/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalentbrueckeGmbH/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talentbruecke/

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