D7.4 Sustainability and Exploitation Plan

The main purpose of this deliverable is to propose a sustainability and exploitation plan for the GE ACADEMY project. In this context, the present report describes in detail the project’s exploitable outputs. Utilising them, this deliverable defines an approach toward their sustainability which aims at the continuation of the provision of high-quality Gender Equality training beyond the project’s lifetime. For the continuation of the provision of the Gender Equality trainings, three distinct business model scenarios 1. Offer driven trainings, 2. Demand driven trainings and 3. Blended version of providing trainings (combination of offer and demand driven trainings) have been explored in terms of feasibility, sustainability and desirability (internally and externally).

Additionally, for achieving the exploitation of the projects’ results an individual exploitation plan has been developed per partner aiming at facilitating the uptake of the project’s outputs. Lastly, a sustainable exit plan is presented contributing to an envisaged pathway for expanding the project’s impact after its completion including the next steps of activities after the funding period of the project, for ensuring the project’s sustainability.

The present deliverable has been developed in parallel and takes into consideration the developments on the complementary deliverable D6.3 Sustainability of the gender trainers’ network for which SV is responsible.