DISABILITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXPERT Erasmus Project

Project Title

DISABILITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXPERT

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: Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

Fostering entrepreneurship and inclusive societies as one of the top EU policy priorities followed by the DISENEX project idea, which aims to promote the empowerment of PWD through entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education. Understood as self-empowerment, the concept pursues the goal of increasing autonomy and self-confidence of vulnerable groups. It also aims at the identification and further development of one’s own strengths and competencies. The core of the project is considered to be innovative through integration of the existing tools and programs that have already proven their reliability and efficiency with easily perceptual visual products widely used in the entertainment sector, but increasingly also in education.

Pursuing the idea of building a sustainable strategic alliance for adult education with the current aim of filling the gap by enhancing social entrepreneurship activities among PWD, the project consortium is determined to achieve the following key objectives:

– To increase the self-employment and (social) entrepreneurship rates among PWD
– To pool knowledge of trainers, adult educators, startup support services and economic development authorities to understand and manage the potential of PWD within the social economy sector (both nationally and EU-wide)
-to create a single-window system that helps PWD to discover, elaborate and implement the entrepreneurial opportunity
-make decision makers be aware of the problems encountered by the disabled people, learn about their economic and creative potential, adjust the existing and respectively develop new strategies and policies for empowering PWD for entrepreneurship.
The consortium aims at creation of the innovative, relevant and handy instrument to provide the most crucial elements for persons with disabilities to consider and implement the pathway of becoming (social) entrepreneurs.

The following main outputs are planned to be delivered and following results be reached:

The production of the motivational learning documentary mini-series constitutes the major outcome of the DISENEX project.
The output composes a single media product leveraging the opportunities created by relative cost-efficiency of the digital video production and the power of the messages received from the peers – people with disabilities who have managed to get loose from the predestined ties of discrimination. limited self-realization opportunities and/or protective social infrastructure.

Through popularisation of the YouTube format storytelling in the last two decades, short videos have become one of the most accepted and accessible forms of delivery of news, information, knowledge, ideas and even certain practical skills. Therefore it was a conscious choice of the project consortium to instrumentalize this media for the sake of fostering social entrepreneurship among people with disabilities. Another notable cultural phenomena of the last years is the mass shift of the professional film industry to the production of television series. The idea of the consortium is to try an innovative approach of reaching the goals of an Erasmus+ adult education project with the unconventional combination of popular entertainment with the educational motivational strategies.

2. The primary educational output is set to be the integrated DISENEX learning course. Prior to the application drafting the partnership has already checked around 20 previously implemented Erasmus+ projects, other publicly funded and open licensed e-learning, audiovisual, education & training resources on entrepreneurship in general, inclusive and social entrepreneurship. Therefore instead of developing a new one from scratch, the consortium will analyze, select and adapt the existing ones in order to spare resources. Nevertheless, the work will be not limited to just copying and compilation. The main focus is devoted to systemic integration and structural adjustment. The methodological concept is based on EntreComp (The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework.

3. DISENEX Portal, an all-in-one platform consisting of:
Online Educational resource
Database created through intensive data collection, systematisation and integration that will comprise the national legal frameworks regulating the business activities, links, documents, forms etc., each country’s specific requirements for setting up a social business, public and independent institutions providing consultancy, technical support, funding, network platforms, start-up services etc.
Disability Entrepreneurship Expert Protocol that provides guidelines for establishing own business,
Startup and Networking Desk, enabling building networks and communication to the start-up community and business advisers. This desk will be crucial for filling in the gap between legislative regulations and execution processes in each country.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 321664 Eur

Project Coordinator

Internationale Akademie für Management und Technologie (INTAMT) e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• FONIX AS
• OZARA STORITVENO IN INVALIDSKO PODJETJE DOO
• IZMIR VALILIGI
• Internationale Agentur für Marketing und Technologietransfer (INTAMT) GmbH
• CENTRO INTERNAZIONALE PER LA PROMOZIONE DELL’EDUCAZIONE E LO SVILUPPO ASSOCIAZIONE