"<< Background >>Significant international developments such as the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the rising prominence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have signalled the need for more urgent sustainability action from the global business community.GreenPosts takes inspiration from existing initiatives, aiming to implement a general concept and approach to greening human capital and economy referred to the wider approach to sustainability introducing skills linked to the transition to a circular and greener economy. The project has the specific objective to enhance the required green skills for the workforce by improving its technical capacities, knowledge, values and attitudes to develop and support sustainable social, economic and environmental outcomes in business, industry and the community. With more than 600,000 post offices the world over, the postal sector operates the largest physical distribution network on the planet. Some 660,000 vehicles, 250,000 motorcycles and countless airplanes, covering billions of kilometers every year, are used daily to deliver the mail. What’s more, the post offices and 5.5 million postal employees consume electricity, water and paper, which all have an impact on the environment.More specifically, this project aims to provide a training material for posts’ staff on how to put the European Green Deal into practice at the local level, and respect the UN Sustainable Development Goal 13 ""Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"", SDG 11 ""Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable"", as well as to relevant targets of other SDGs most material to the postal sector, which take action to mitigate climate change and cover issues such as ensuring decent working conditions, promoting innovation, building sustainable cities and communities, ensuring responsible production and consumption. Also, a pilot training course will be held for testing and making adjustments on developed material.<< Objectives >>Local posts are involved in a variety of environmental activities, but it is not always easy for them to keep up-to-date with science and policy on EU level, so they can create an adequate and complete long-term plan focusing on the right priorities, using the latest evidence, and delivering better results.The proposed project will present clear and tangible benefits for all stakeholders involved. Improve basic skills and competences on leadership, citizenship and action; support for green and social action, with demonstrated benefits for the environment, the region and local communities; and the promotion of social cohesion, integration and inclusion, with benefits and more opportunities for all.The objectives of this project are to establish a training programme which will enable local post offices’ staff to:●Set a clear, long-term direction with flexibility to adapt to new evidence and circumstances.●Provide robust and credible reporting, governance and accountability.●Put in place strong local leadership and a more integrated delivery framework.●Resource, set incentives and support sustainable finance, including from the private sector.●Make sure everyone plays their part in delivering the improved environment we all want.<< Implementation >>Generally, the project is meant to involve local post offices, which are aware of a variety of environmental problems related to noise or air pollution, waste disposal, consumer education and protection. The project's specific goal is to capacitate local posts’ staff for change engagement, developing green skills and fostering leadership skills, creativity, socio-educational and professional development, through its action.Its specific objectives are to help these target groups to keep up-to-date with science and policy on EU level, as well as to enhance their competences in various sustainability-relevant sectors by improving and extending the supply of high-quality learning opportunities for adults, under the perspective of lifelong learning via Online Training Courses and a Virtual Think Tank.Postal services from 4 countries supported by an SME active in building organisational capacity in Climate Change mitigation and adaptation strategies will be sharing experience on their individual carbon management achievements and discussing the new focus areas of the next phase. The initial internal workshops partner organisations have organised on the topics were consistently well attended and an excellent opportunity for internal networking. With GreenPosts activities there will be the opportunity for inter-regional sharing sustaining the success of the internal workshops. Furthemore, the knowledge will be shared via Multiplier Events with the wider EU and international postal Community thanks to the support of the associated partner PostEurope. Partners will be sharing best practice and information facilitating continuous improvement and effective carbon management and climate change mitigation and adaptation.<< Results >>In this project’s PR1 a “GreenPosts Assessment Tool” will be developed in order to enhance local posts' staff role on assistant provision of climate change. Also, “Implementing European Green Deal in Posts” Course (PR2) will be created by the partnership to increase and deepen the knowledge and competences of local posts’ staff working in the decision-making positions on how to increase the resilience of postal services. In this PR we will develop a Course that will be addressed to Postal Management as well as employees and consists of 9 modules that will include guidelines, exercises and case studies, aiming to provide trainees with skills and knowledge which will help minimise the carbon footprint of postal services.Moreover, ""Peer to Peer Success Stories videos"" (PR3) will play an important role in the project's implementation as they will motivate the target group, encourage them to change attitudes and adopt a new mindset, inspire people and organisations to become involved and encourage sustainable behaviours.As a last action, the partnership has the objective to develop a ""Virtual Think Tank"" (PR4) where information and resources about environmental actions in post offices and training opportunities will be shared, in order to increase the capacity and skills of stakeholders.As a result, the project expects to create clear and tangible benefits for all stakeholders involved, by supporting a sustainable improvement of their basic skills and competences on leadership, citizenship, green actions and social change for the environment. Furthermore, GreenPosts will promote the well-being of local post offices’ staff, providing a coherent response to the challenges facing the environmental sector by complementing and adding value to existing initiatives. The consortium declares that the GreenPosts project will have both international and local impact on social cohesion, integration and inclusion, with benefits and more opportunities for all."