EU Projects Going Virtual : The ONE Meeting Approach

Abstract

The ONE meeting approach aims to equip EU project managers and HE leadership with skills and competencies needed for making EU projects more efficient, greener and more sustainable. Our target groups can pick out what is relevant for them: The ONE Business Case provides evidence and offers tools to check the potential benefits for the environment; the ONE Virtual Toolkit offers a systematised collection of tools for virtual collaboration; and the ONE Guide presents a proof of concept and a step-by-step approach for switching to a ONE meeting only format. In the long run, we hope to impact project work on a regional, national and international level to become more sustainable and effective, while still focusing on the social and personal factors as well as mutual cultural understanding. We see project managers and leaders who use our resources for their own work as possible change agents. Following this, we hope to see our outcomes further developed, enriched and undergirded by our target groups through their own experiences, their innovative practices as well as their successes and failures. We are aware that what we have achieved is only a first step towards a sustainable, green and smart approach in transnational collaboration. Many more steps have to follow – supported by the experiences of projects using the ONE approach and by EU policies advocating a greener and more sustainable Europe.