Digital Internationalisation and Financial Literacy Skills for micro entrepreneurs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Internationalisation and Financial Literacy Skills for micro entrepreneurs

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

<< Background >>

DIFME sought to enhance micro entrepreneurs’ skills, through an innovative, integrated learning approach, addressing the identified skills gaps, involving businesses through the online tools and building a sustainable partnership between HEIs and industry. It has promoted the acquisition of skills and key competences, and will provide an effective and innovative online tool to teaching and promoting entrepreneurship education.

<< Objectives >>

Based on a cooperative learning model, consisting of a modular learning system of key financial and internationalisation skills, an SME Hub, HEI-SME learning tandems as well as various formats of interdisciplinary multi-stakeholder fora, DIFME has developed new, innovative and multidisciplinary approaches by integrating necessary skills in a curriculum which is adapted to the real needs of the industry with an e-learning platform made available

<< Implementation >>

The project has been implemented successfully given the limitations of the COVID situation, balanced by new opportunities a of online cooperation and outreach. All deliverables have been submitted close to original deadlines albeit some longer time for development.Testing validated the objective of achieving clear objectives of the learning model, relevance of content, clarity of content, structure of the learning model, balance between theory and practical examples .

<< Results >>

Tangible results include•Country reports needs analysis study•Overall Synthesis report•Curriculum built on Cooperative model •Elearning tool •SME HUB •Piloting results •MOC•Website and social media• Quality Eval ReportIntangible results include a well-established and cohesive consortium , experience shared by the partnership, which we will continue to exploit and benefit from. New networks , new knowledge, working practices and skills and working relationships gained

Project Website

http://www.difme.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 951761 Eur

Project Coordinator

MALTA BUSINESS FOUNDATION & Country: MT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITA TA MALTA
• OSTBAYERISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE REGENSBURG
• ISOB INSTITUT FUR SOZIALWISSENSCHAFTLICHE BERATUNG GMBH
• PANEPISTIMIO DYTIKIS ATTIKIS
• EUROCREA MERCHANT SRL
• FAB PRACTICE LIMITED
• STICHTING INCUBATOR