IMPALA ERASMUS+ focuses on strengthening impact of Latin American universities. In 2020, the project was recognized as one of the best internationalization practices in Ibero-American universities by the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture-OEI. As part of IMPALA project, “Forma Emprende” and “Sabana como vamos”, were chosen as pilot programmes to be measured in 2021 with the impact assessment framework developed by the consortium.

ELANET ERASMUS+ consortium is a capacity-building project that aims to enhance the capacities of 17 universities to develop local and international ecosystems for supporting social entrepreneurs.

CIMA is a research project that offers an important contribution to the development and application of metrics to account for the implementation of circular economy (CE) in SMEs in general. Worldwide there are few studies on this subject, and those that exist have been developed mainly by large companies (e.g. Phillips, Iberdrola, The Coca Cola Company, and Telefónica) through consultancy firms such as Accenture, Enel X, and McKinsey. CIMA’s expected outcomes are:

• To identify international CE metrics and their sources for SME’s.
• To develop metrics for the Colombian SME’s context.
• To build a system of KPIs based on the current proposals of metrics and aligned with the CE data framework of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE).
• To design and implement a pilot application of the metrics and a proposal for report generation.