Sustainability and Emerging Applications Centre

ABOUT GREEN COMPASS™

Currently, some companies may not know where to start or how to scale up their environmental sustainability transformation, as they face a wide range of environmental sustainability issues and an even wider range of actions that they can take to address these issues. Green Compass™ is an environmental sustainability assessment and strategic roadmapping tool that helps companies to become more environmentally sustainable by better managing their carbon emissions, energy, water, and waste impacts, as well as chart strategic roadmaps for their transformation based on their current environmental sustainability levels. Through the four-step Learn-Assess-Prioritise-Plan model, companies will first learn about sustainability trends and methodologies and assess their companies’ environmental sustainability level., Next, they will prioritise areas with the biggest financial and strategic impact and chart the strategic roadmaps for their sustainability transformation based on their assessed sustainability level.

Companies can utilise Green Compass™ through the 16-hour Green Compass™ course, a collaboration between A*STAR’s Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) and TÜV SÜD.

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Learn-Assess-Prioritise-Plan model

KEY BENEFITS

Reduce business costs by learning how to improve resource efficiency
Future-proof operations against supply chain or resource shocks
Preparing for sustainability transformation through an increased awareness of key improvement areas and a strategic roadmap for immediate implementation

TESTIMONIALS

[The Green Compass™ course] helped us assess our company’s state of sustainability across different dimensions and quantify our sustainability efforts. We determined potential areas for tangible improvement focusing on organisation, product life cycle, supply network and operations, which helps with the transformation of a more sustainable business.

Mr Pardhu Vemulamada,
Head (Digital), Durapower Holdings

Through the Green Compass™ workshop, my colleagues and I learnt valuable insights to improve our company's sustainability performance in transition towards a green economy. We learnt how to access our company's performance quantitatively and qualitatively in the various aspects of sustainability. The workshop was well-organised and the facilitators were very helpful to guide us through all the sessions.

Mr Chang Chia Chien,
Lead Analyst, EcoLabs Centre of Innovation for Energy

Green Compass™ indeed is a great tool, and a compass that provide step by step comprehensive framework that allow organisation to systematically evaluate the current gaps, identify opportunity for improvement and prioritise actions to be taken to drive towards achieving sustainability goal.

Mr Yeo Chee Leong,
Director, EnergieServe

The Green Compass Assessment results were comprehensive, which helped us to identify not just which specific areas to work on, but how to work on them. The trainers were knowledgeable in the topic covered and were helpful in our specific issues when brainstorming for improvement ideas. As a result of the course, we put together a roadmap of improvement actions that we are excited to get started on to scale up our environmental sustainability transformation.

Mr James Chua,
Senior Manager (Quality), I-PEX Singapore

Our key challenge was the lack of a data-driven structured approach to identify our sustainability objectives. During the 3-day programme, we gained better visibility of various cost structures within the company that impacts our sustainability agenda. The step-by-step consultative approach has also helped us to identify, assess, and prioritise key sustainability focus areas. We would like to recommend this programme to like-minded companies that are interested to further understand their sustainability performance and maturity level.

Mr Colin Tan,
Chief R&D Officer, YEO HIAP SENG (Singapore) Pte Ltd

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Sign up with your colleagues for the Sustainability Transformation through Green Compass™ course today!

Green Compass™ is recommended for companies who want to start or scale up their environmental sustainability transformation and can be used by companies at any stage of their environmental sustainability transformation journey, from companies that are just starting to experienced ones. The course is most suitable for industries with operations within Singapore.

The course is catered to companies, where it is recommended to send a group of employees from various departments of the company with a mix of seniority levels so as to have a good representation of the company’s current environmental sustainability efforts. Preferably, the participants would consist of representatives from the following departments or equivalent functions, to ensure a good breadth of company knowledge in the room for completing the assessment and effective brainstorming:

Operations
Facility Management
Sustainability
Strategic Projects
Product Development
Procurement
Finance
HR/Training

Participants can enjoy SkillsFuture Singapore grants, covering up to 90% of the course fee, subject to eligibility criteria.

Find out more information about this course

To enable sustainability transformation, this course is designed for companies committed to a minimum participation of 3 employees. The optimal group size per company is dependent on the scale of the company’s operation..

Pre-Requisites, Full and Nett Course Fees

Pre-Requisites

Applicants should possess a degree or a diploma in any discipline or a minimum of 3 years of related working experience.
Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Full Course Fee

The full course fee for this module is $1,600 before funding and prevailing GST.

Nett Course Fee

International Participants	Singapore Citizens (39 yrs old or younger), SPRs or LTVP+ Holders	Singapore Citizens (40 yrs or older)²	Enhanced Training Support for SMEs¹
$1,728	$518.40	$198.40	$198.40

All fees are inclusive of prevailing GST.

Please note that fees and funding amount are subject to change.

Long Term Visit Pass Plus (LTVP+) Holders

The LTVP+ scheme applies to lawful foreign spouses of Singapore Citizens with (i) at least one Singapore Citizen child or are expecting one from the marriage, or at least three years of marriage, and (ii) where the Singapore Citizen sponsor is able to support the family.

All LTVP+ holders can be identified with their green visit pass cards, with the word ‘PLUS’ printed on the back of the card.

¹ Under the Enhanced Training Support for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) scheme (ETSS), subject to eligibility criteria shown below.

SMEs that meet all of the following eligibility criteria:

Registered or incorporated in Singapore
Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million

SME-sponsored Trainees:

Must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents.
Courses have to be fully paid for by the employer.
Trainee is not a full-time national serviceman.

Further Info: This scheme is intended for all organisations, including non-business entities not registered with ACRA e.g. VWOs, societies, etc. Only ministries, statutory boards, and other government agencies are not eligible under Enhanced Training Support for SMEs Scheme. Sole proprietorships which meet all of the above criteria are also eligible.

² Under the SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES) for employer-sponsored and self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 40 years old and above.

Singaporeans aged 25 years old and above are eligible for SkillsFuture Credit which can be used to offset course fees (for self-sponsored registrations only).

For more information on the SkillsFuture funding schemes you are eligible for, please visit www.ssg.gov.sg

How course fees are calculated

TYPE	CATEGORY OF INDIVIDUALS
	International Participants	Singapore Citizens, Singapore Permanent Residents and LTVP+ Holders	Employer-sponsored and self-sponsored Singapore Citizens aged 40 years and above	SME-sponsored local employees (i.e Singapore Citizens, Singapore Permanent Residents and LTVP+ Holders)
	FUNDING SOURCE
	Not applicable for SkillsFuture Funding	SkillsFuture Funding (Baseline)	SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy (MCES) ²	SkillsFuture Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS) ¹
Full Course Fee	$1,600	$1,600	$1,600	$1,600
SkillsFuture Funding	Not Applicable	($1,120)	($1,440)	($1,440)
Nett Course Fee	$1,600	$480	$160	$160
8% GST	$128	$38.40*	$38.40*	$38.40*
Total Nett Course Fee Payable to Training Provider	$1,728	$518.40	$198.40	$198.40

* Based on 30% of Full Course Fee

Contact us

For further enquiries, please email greencompass@SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg

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