What we do

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It’s all about building a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable society

  • Our Concept

    SwIdeas expertise resides on the capacity to enable learning and development within its community, partners, clients, businesses, organisations and stakeholders. Through applied research, informal, non-formal & formal education and awareness raising initiatives, SwIdeas contributes to enhancing their competences within a wide range of thematic areas that possess an ultimate common purpose - building a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable society.

    To achieve this, SwIdeas has forged 2 units, the Community Development Unit and the Business Unit. Besides, we provide programs and courses that are customized and tailored to the learners’ needs and interests.

  • Our Community

    SwIdeas partners are small and medium-sized enterprises, NGOs, civil society, communities of practice, involved stakeholders, and the public sector in Sweden, Europe and internationally. SwIdeas focuses on helping partners to facilitate development, manage change, maintain progress and improve the effectiveness of development assistance – for both community development and business development. Our commitment and work will result in improved local capacities, enhanced opportunities and sustainable communities.

Business Development Unit

The Business Development Unit focuses on providing consultancy, advisory and other services to help you in evaluating, or launching or developing your operational capacity, to support responsible business development and innovation, and to give a hand in project management. Being specialised in international, social and sustainable development, we can support you in:

  • developing a business model that is socially and environmentally responsible, including the development of an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) strategy

  • implementing new and innovative practices into your organisation that enhance its environmental and/or social impact

  • supporting you in developing resilient project management strategies

  • training your team to enhance soft skills such as leadership, teamwork, communication, presentation, etc. through our Programs and Courses.

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Community Development Unit

The Community Development Unit focuses on (transnational) projects for sustainable development and community empowerment. We partner with new and well-established organisations in transnational projects which have a positive impact on the society at large. Our projects are funded or co-funded by agencies and programs such as the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Union, the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) Programme of the European Union, NordPlus or the Swedish Institute.

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To discover more about our projects’ topics and scope of work, and to learn how to collaborate with us, click on the button below!

Take a look at our projects

Featured
GreenScouts
On-going, Training
GreenScouts
On-going, Training

The project aims to train VET learners in DE, NL, and ES as GreenScouts. The 3-phase concept involves preparation, guidance during work-based learning and post-support for sharing and communication of developed approaches.

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On-going, Training
EuRopean Bio-Economy ALliancE In Farming (RELIEF)
On-going, Community development, Training
EuRopean Bio-Economy ALliancE In Farming (RELIEF)
On-going, Community development, Training

RELIEF is an Erasmus+ Alliance for Innovation which aims to develop and deliver an innovative approach for teaching bioeconomy in farming by developing specific learning resources addressing university students and farming practitioners.

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On-going, Community development, Training
Young Female Activists for Intercultural Dialogue 
Young Female Activists for Intercultural Dialogue 

Young Female Activists for Intercultural Dialogue is a Creative Force project funded by the Swedish Institute. Through this project, we aim to promote intercultural dialogue and exchange of good practices between Jordanian and Swedish-based female political activists, using the arts, visual media tools such as storytelling to uncover gender-based oppression.

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Diverse Strengths
Community development, Completed
Diverse Strengths
Community development, Completed

Diverse Strengths is a two-year project co-funded by the Nordplus Adult Programme. The aim of the project is to develop pedagogical tools and take a blended learning approach, to create workshops used for competence development in reaching the labor market.

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Community development, Completed
ECOLitAct
On-going, Training, Community development
ECOLitAct
On-going, Training, Community development

ECOLitAct seeks to empower VET practitioners/educators and learners to counter misinformation related to environment and climate change, and to inspire them to adopt eco-friendly behaviours/attitudes.

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On-going, Training, Community development
Map of positive Experiences across Europe (EU+Map)
Community development, Completed
Map of positive Experiences across Europe (EU+Map)
Community development, Completed

EU+Map aims to improve language teachers’ teaching skills in creating alternative learning paths for migrants’ language teachers. Further, it offers migrants at risk of social exclusion the opportunity to participate in informal pilot language courses adapted to their needs.

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Community development, Completed

Are you our next team member?

SwIdeas regularly offers internships opportunities to those willing to support us in our European Projects.

If you are interested, send in an open application or go ahead and check if we have any Open Call at the moment!

Find out what others say about our projects and internships

  • "The internship in SwIdeas showed me how the things I study play out in reality and challenged me to find feasible solutions to these problems. From the very first moment, I felt like an equal member of the team that gave me a lot of confidence to contribute and to share my thoughts and ideas."

    SwIdeas Intern

  • "The internship is designed to your needs. It is a great learning experience to get to know project work on a local level, to get to know stakeholders in Malmö, as well as on the European level."

    SwIdeas Intern

  • "I think that it was amazing. [...] What I liked the most about the (tandem) program is that I got the opportunity to get in touch with people with very different backgrounds. I think it is important to have programs aimed to women, and I really liked it."

    WICP E+ Project Participant

  • "Overall the GREATIVE digital training is a great opportunity to learn different skills around green strategies and creative skills for building resilient EU projects. There is a high degree of effectiveness in providing knowledge to the student."

    GREATIVE Learner

    (YOUCREATE E+ Project)

  • "(The project) Women in Creative Power was actually what made me start my business here (in Sweden) and right now I am quite positive about the future."

    WICP E+ Project Participant

Check out our services

  • Community development

    Our unit for community development focuses on projects for sustainable development and community empowerment. We partner with new and well-established organisations in transnational projects.

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  • Business development

    We offer consultancy and diverse services to help you in launching or developing your business idea, to support responsible business development and innovation, and to give a hand in project management.

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  • Programs and courses

    We offer programs, courses and mentorship in the fields of sustainability, entrepreneurship, circular economy, sociocultural skills for newly-arrived migrants, diversity management and project management.

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