After several months of preparation from our project team, a competitive selection process and online pre-departure preparations, we are proud to share that the EntreComp4Transition International Student Mobility successfully concluded in April 2025.
The project team extends a warm congratulations to the students who travelled across Europe to take part in this collaboration, and a huge thank you to the local companies and trainers for guiding the learning experience. As a multinational exchange, students travelled from their home countries of Austria, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Türkiye to another of these countries to experience not only professional challenges but also to enjoy local culture and build new relationships. Additionally, several students stayed in their home country to act as ‘local hosts’ to the incoming cohorts.
During the mobility, our students had the opportunity to collaborate with local companies and to develop solutions to help them on the path to sustainability.
As part of the programme, the EntreComp4Transition partners had the chance to interview several of the participating companies to hear their thoughts on the importance of sustainability programmes, and their plans for future development. Following this, students were also invited to share their experiences working with the companies and their fellow students, and how this experience has prepared them for future professional challenges.
You can now watch highlights from each country’s experience and hear directly from the companies and students involved:
Austria
Die Zuckerlwerkstatt GmbH is a small, artisan candy company based in Vienna and Salzburg, known for its handmade sweets and historic recipes. Since 2013, they’ve combined traditional techniques with modern creativity to produce treats like silk candies, jellies, and custom motif sweets. With a strong focus on sustainability and regional partnerships, the company invites the public to experience candy-making through live workshops and city-centre shops.
As part of their involvement in the student mobility project, Die Zuckerlwerkstatt welcomed a group of students and assigned four mentors, including the Managing Director. He worked closely with the team, sharing insights into company strategy and operations. The students were given a dedicated space to meet and collaborate on a real-world challenge: how to build a more sustainable and innovative production model in a busy urban setting.
After analysing the company’s current practices, the students saw that sustainability was already a strength. They shifted focus toward supporting the company’s “twin transition” improving digital tools while continuing to grow in environmentally responsible ways. Their final proposal featured a primarily digital solution, helping the company stay connected to its heritage while embracing the future.
Belgium
Gaasch Packing is a packaging distributor in the sector of beverages, food, personal care, pharma and cleaning industries, located in Belgium, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom with 45 employees. The Sustainability Manager of the company was the assigned mentor of the team. Gaasch Packaging provides a wide range of primary packaging solutions, including bottles, jars, vials, and other containers with accessories made from glass, metal, and plastics. 70% of their goods are made out of glass, the rest out of plastic. Their products serve industries such as food, beverages, personal care, pharmaceuticals, and industrial cleaning.
Gaasch Packaging focuses on delivering high-quality, sustainable packaging solutions while emphasising values like personal commitment, trust-based relationships, and long-term partnerships, and faces challenges related to environmental sustainability, adopting new technologies, and staying competitive in a global market.
Italy
Since 1993 Officina Consulting has been offering Business Consulting and Training activities for all types of companies, which must deal with and adapt to regulations in the fields of safety, worker health and in the environmental and energy fields.
Officina Consulting has adopted a sustainability policy that strengthens the objectives of the UN AGENDA 2030 and highlights the commitment to continuous improvement of processes, environmental performance, health and safety at work, dignity and human rights and the centrality of development and human capital for achieving its objectives.
Two company technicians were mentors for the team and the project given to students was based on the study of the CSRD and on understanding the impacts of emerging ESG trends on companies in the Emilia-Romagna region. This has given as result a deeper understanding of the actions and targets that a company should implement to face emerging issues.
Spain
Fun School of Languages is a language academy with three employees and more than 18 years of experience that provides English classes for adults, children and companies, Spanish for foreigners and personalised coaching services to avoid school failure among other situations.
The director and owner of the company has been the team’s mentor. The challenge of the academy was very focused on digitalisation and how to improve its tools to attract more students and make classes more dynamic. Regarding the sustainability component, they wanted to evaluate its degree of sustainability as a company and what practice it could put in place to improve it.
Türkiye
GEMAK/PROMAK PROSES MAKINALARI IMALAT VE TIC LTD STI is a manufacturing factory of food processing machines such as press feeding systems, press accessories, quick die change systems, flexible production lines for dairy, chemical, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries.
The General Manager was the mentor of the team, and the challenge was related to how Gemak/Promak can integrate sustainability and digitalisation into its production line and supply chain while maintaining profitability and competitiveness, to seek to turn environmental and social impact into opportunities for innovation, compliance and competitive economic growth by sustainable and digital transition.
