Prepared by: Ivana Ivanova

The development of the HR according to circular economy principles is an important precondition for a sustainable and competitive economy. A circular human resources management (HRM) can plan a durable and sustainable design and maintenance of skills in the firm, in contrast with the current linear model of hiring, maintaining, overloading and dismissing. It aims at supporting the transition of European SMEs from a traditional, linear HRM model, to a circular HRM model.

The second Balkan Forum was held on September 25th and 26th, 2020 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

On 14th of July 2020, a meeting was held between the executive director of the Center for Knowledge Management – Andrijana Bogdanovska Gj., and Miss Valentina Disoska, president of Association of Business Women.

From the 17th to 19th of March 2019, 60 stakeholders from 5 countries gathered in Cyprus to advance their knowledge regarding the latest innovations in the energy sector. The theme included reducing energy consumption to lessen pollutant emissions, energy management in buildings, renewable energy, as well as waste-management, in order to reach the most viable opportunities to create innovative energy startups.

Friday 22 February 2019, was the end of the third successful workshop for CKM's Interreg: i3 project “i3 – Education for ideas, inventions and innovations for entrepreneurship”.

On 19-20 of November, 2019, we organized the kick-off meeting for the the new "WECAN" project in Valencia, Spain. WECAN is CKM's new European partnership project, which aims to design an innovative learning programme to encourage the entrepreneurial activity among female adults (potential entrepreneurs, freelancers, unemployed) at the age of 30-45 with no, or little entrepreneurial experience.