Digital Skills for Socially Inclusive Entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Skills for Socially Inclusive Entrepreneurship

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Digital technologies are particularly well suited to helping civic action: mobilising large communities, sharing resources and spreading power. A growing movement of tech entrepreneurs and innovators in civil society are now developing inspiring digital solutions to social challenges. These range from social networks for those living with chronic health conditions, to online platforms for citizen participation in policymaking, to using open data to create more transparency around public spending. We call this Digital Social Innovation (DSI).
Just as with other sectors of the economy, ready access to skills is a necessity for DSI to succeed, but there are shortages in two key areas. Firstly, we look at the shortage of digital skills: this is a structural problem which is affecting the continent beyond the field of DSI. Secondly, we look at business skills: this is a problem of developing practitioners’ own skills and providing better ways for them to access specific skills when needed.
The main objective of this project is to create and disseminate digital skills for social change and inclusion through entrepreneurship. The project methodology provides for the creation of an innovative digital upskilling route map to develop independently socially relevant initiatives using the tools of today’s digital entrepreneurship. The map represents a common framework involving the skills of two different pathways represented through the intellectual products in the project:
– creating and managing digital content;
– digital entrepreneurship.
In order to identify the most needed skills for the target group, its attitudes and needs, a research will be conducted within the framework of the first intellectual product, seeking answers to basic questions such as: How can society and its citizens, in particular vulnerable groups, such as youths or the long-term unemployed, get onto the digital train and stay abreast of new technologies and methods? How can digital skills at the workplace be developed and used more efficiently? What has already been done so far and what are the challenges ahead?
As an additional activity, short-term staff training has been conducted to build up the skills needed to disseminate the results and create efficient digital content.
Project target group: 60 young people to whom the results are to be disseminated.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 72618 Eur

Project Coordinator

SDRUZHENIE EKSPERTEN PUL – BULGARIA & Country: BG

Project Partners

• A ROCCA