Business Owners. Promoting Youth Employment through the Continuity of Family Business Erasmus Project

Project Title

Business Owners. Promoting Youth Employment through the Continuity of Family Business

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT:
The framework in which we have worked is the family environment, specifically the family business, in which we have to consider the family roles and the marked traditional character of this type of business.
With the objective that these family businesses can continue, it is necessary to give these future generations, some of them young people, others heirs of their business, we must have the necessary skills to ensure the continuity of the family business.
The project has been aimed for providing future entrepreneurs, managers or consultants with the necessary skills and abilities, providing them with the necessary training so that they feel able to be part of the company, take over the company, and raise the improvement in the business with the objective of ensuring the continuity of the family business.
Therefore the project has developed an online tool, which has developed the skills and competencies that every young entrepreneur will need for their future work in the family business.
•OBJECTIVES:
They have identified what skills are necessary for a young entrepreneur to take over the family business, either their own or others. For this, it has been necessary to identify good practices within family businesses. These good practices ensure good continuity of their business and were explained by the entrepreneurs. This served as a basis for developing the content of the tele-training platform that the students were going to study.
• NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS:
There have been six participants.
1. FESMC UGT CyL (Spain): It is one of the most important national and regional trade unions that cover the sectors of services, mobility and consumption, established in Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain. In this case, our federation has provided a great deal of experience in collective bargaining, in training schemes for workers, in employment regulation files and in succession of companies, so our contribution has provided a trade union and sectoral vision.
2. INVESLAN (Spain): It is a private organization working in the field of economic and social research. They have provided us with training and extensive experience in training students and developing European projects.
3. SCV, StudioCentroVeneto s.a.s. Di Antonio Brunello & C (Italy): They are a private consultant with extensive experience in the field of European project management (content, administrative, planning, research, etc.). Development of microenterprises and succession of family businesses.
4. Wyzsza Szkola Biznesu i Nauk o Zdrowiu (Poland): It is the first non-public higher education institution in Poland. They have provided us with their experience in researching intergenerational education.
5. CCIS: GOSPODARSKA ZBORNICA SLOVENIJE – CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF SLOVENIA. (Slovenia). It is the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, a non-governmental organization, business organization. They have provided us with a wide range of experience in business management and human resources which are necessary for the success of companies.
6. Kahramanmaras Mesleki Egitim Merkezi (Turkey): They are an institution of professional development directed to students who left the regulated education and who desire to learn a trade in the industrial area. The Turkish partner has provided professional experience in the field of practical education and vocational training as well as in the direct application in companies, necessary in our project.
ACTIVITIES
O1: Identification and COMPILATION OF THE GOOD PRACTICES AND COMPETENCES necessary for a successful business transfer. Interviews have been conducted with experts and focus groups in all countries. Each partner has collected its findings in its national report and then gathered in a global report, which has been translated by all partners into their national languages.
O2: A self-assessment tool has been developed so that users are able to self-assess these skills and focus on those who need more training. The tool is interactive and available in all partner languages.
O3: TELE-TRAINING COURSE for the development of competencies for a successful business transfer. It can be accessed through https://www.gzs.si/businessowners/vsebina/ESP/Curso.
O4: MANUAL directed to instructors and trainers of vocational training that will facilitate the methodology to train the students of Vocational Training. The manual will be translated into the languages of all partners.
RESULTS AND IMPACTS ACHIEVED:
They are available to those who visit the website. The impact is guaranteed since all project products are in 6 languages.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 221942 Eur

Project Coordinator

Federación de Servicios para la Movilidad y el Consumo de UGT Castilla y León & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Dulkadiroglu Mesleki Egitim Merkezi
• WYZSZA SZKOLA BIZNESU I NAUK O ZDROWIU
• XXI INVESLAN, S.L.
• GOSPODARSKA ZBORNICA SLOVENIJE
• StudioCentroVeneto s.a.s. di Antonio Brunello & C.