Economic knowledge made easy for everyone Erasmus Project

Project Title

Economic knowledge made easy for everyone

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 : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

This Erasmus + project “Economic knowledge made easy for everyone” is focused on two topics and goals:
1) HORIZONTAL: Supporting individuals in the acquisition and development of basic skills and key competencies
2) ADULT EDUCATION: Improving and expanding the range of high quality learning opportunities tailored to the needs of people with low qualifications.

The following project activities are planned to achieve the project goals:

A) Development of 4 INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS
The focus of this project proposal is the development and implementation of 4 intellectual outputs:
1. an ABC-economy-board-game (target group-specific classic board game for educationally disadvantaged and linguistically newcomers: the focus is on basic knowledge in dealing with money)
2. A target group-specific simple newspaper WIWI (economic knowledge made easy) with simple texts, comics, crossword puzzles, QRS information
3. a web-based platform: economic knowledge made easy (online learning) and
4. a training program: economic knowledge made easy – training program for poorly qualified people and their supervisors

B) CONTENTS for the 4 outputs to be developed are the following topics:
– assets (investment objectives, interest, savings, opportunities and risks)
– Liquidity (budget, income-expenditure account)
– Current account (how does account work?)
– (old-age) provision (pensions, private old-age provision)
– Financing (real estate, loans, leasing)
– Products – Must have (liability insurance, savings book)
All outputs will be available online for at least 4 years after project completion. It should be pointed out that all project results differ significantly from educational offers (eg EBCL – European Business Leader License); Topics of the EBCL (e.g. accounting, cost accounting, company key figures and commercial law) are NOT to be found in this project

C) Implementation of 4 transnational PROJECT MEETINGS (every six months):
Destinations: Liechtenstein, Germany (2x), Italy,
Program: Project management group (budget, dissemination, evaluation, sustainable use) and expert group (development of 4 innovative outputs)
Participants: 1 project manager and 1 expert per project partner

D) The following additional activities are planned:
– Development of a project website (project progress including documents)
– facebook group: “Wirtschaftswissen”(= economic know how)
– 2 project newsletters: in German, ENG, FR and IT
– each participant takes part in a regional educational event to disseminate the results (spring 2022)

E) Implementation of SHORT-TERM STAFF TRAINING:
Objective: Training employees to use the 4 developed intellectual outputs
Participants: 2 employees per project partner
Place / date: Balzers / Liechtenstein in April 2022

F) Implementation of 6 multiplier events in all project partner regions
Objective: regional dissemination of all project results and outcomes for stakeholders
Participants: relevant actors / multipliers in adult education or debt counseling
Dates: May 2022

G) Establishment of a cross-border EXPERT GROUP
Objective: Exchange of consulting documents, mutual collegial advice (topic: business knowledge)
Participants: employees of project partners and stakeholders

H) Creation and implementation of an EVALUATION CONCEPT
a) Product evaluation: Test of the individual outputs by employees and project participants
b) Process evaluation: Monitoring of the project flow through regular emails or Skype conferences

IN addition, ALL 6 PROJECT PARTNERS HAVE THE FOLLOWING OTHER TASKS:
1. Participation in 4 transnational project meetings
2. Participation in the 3-day short-term-staff-training in Balzers/LI
3. Translation of project-relevant documents
4. Test all outcomes
5. regional / national / EU dissemination activities
6. Participation in the evaluation

SUBSCRIBER ACQUISITION
Potential participants will be acquired through training offers of the project partners, through multiplier events, through stakeholders (e.g. debt counseling centers, schools, adult education institutions) as well as via social media (especially Facebook). All project partners can use address data from previous / current training participants, but also good contacts with stakeholders, to inform future participants during the project implementation as well as after the end of the project about the current course offer for low-qualified adults and motivate them to “attend the course”.

The project partners EXPECT the following IMPACT
1. Improving knowledge of “Economic and Financial Matters”
2. Increase pedagogical competence
3. Increase language skills: EN, FR, IT, DE
4. Expansion of the consulting portfolio

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 228665 Eur

Project Coordinator

Haus Gutenberg & Country: LI

Project Partners

• advisa Unternehmensberatung GmbH
• Volkhochschule Bildungsinstitut
• prEUnec GmbH
• Tu F1rst Onlus
• Club Life Long Learning