Elaboración de herramienta on line para favorecer el emprendedurismo en el sector de comercio minorista de jóvenes menores de 30 años Erasmus Project

Project Title

Elaboración de herramienta on line para favorecer el emprendedurismo en el sector de comercio minorista de jóvenes menores de 30 años

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; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

CONTEXT / BASES OF THE PROJECT
In Spain, youth unemployment is 56.55%, due largely to people entering the labor market before age 25 are less qualified, because half of them have a level of education that reaches only the first stage of secondary education. Almost half of young people who lost their jobs in Construction (600,000) left school to pursue a job that neither exists nor return, and have gone to swell the army of long-term unemployed. The situation is no better among those over 25 and under 30.
Apart from large measures such as the Youth Employment Initiative of the European Council, other efforts to complement these initiatives become necessary.
Training, years of professional experience or speak several languages do not help to enter the labor market. The number of people who are enlisted as autonomous, although moderately, growing steadily in recent months.
In the rest of Europe, with lower figures, youth picture is similar; hence the pan-European nature of the tool that we have developed with the implementation of the project.

OBJECTIVES
– Promote the implementation and evaluation of skills-key, including the basic skills and transversal competences regarding the promotion of entrepreneurship.
– Use ICT so as to allow an open and flexible learning.
– To promote entrepreneurship to develop active citizenship, employability and the creation of new businesses.

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
PYMEV (Project Coordinator) Spain
The Valencian Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (PYMEV) is the representative organization for the defense and representation of the interests of micro and small enterprises in the Valencia region.

ADAPT (Romania)
ADAPT as an organization promotes innovative ways for the modernization of human resources and the development of vocational training through vocational training, adult education, online training, ICT, as well as through traditional methods.

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH (UK)
The University of Plymouth is one of the most important and dynamic universities in the UK. The main activities carried out at the University are teaching and research.

IBISCONET, SL (Spain)
iBISCOnet, SL is a consulting firm specializing in advising on new technologies and R & D + i.

EUROPOLE (Italy)
The European Pole of Knowledge (Europole) is a public non-profit organization. It includes more than 4,000 organizations related to work and education who work for European social and educational integration.

DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED
The project has had 4 main activities:

– Create a specific matrix for the retail sector systematizing knowledge, skills and competencies needed to become an entrepreneur, based on the specifications of the EQF and in the absence of an industry standard (SQF) regulating retail.
– The preparation, within the framework of the corresponding ECVET Learning Outcome Units, which can be evaluated and certified in a differentiated way with a number of associated ECVET points, taking into consideration the data obtained from the elaborate matrix.
– Creating educational content taking into account the information obtained previously, in order to adapt it to the new gamification based tool.
– The design and development of an innovative tool based on gamification. Its users are the future entrepreneurs in the retail sector. Developed games have been created on the basis of methods of “game-based learning”. The access is made from a PC or mobile devices.

ACHIEVED RESULTS AND IMPACT LONG TERM BENEFITS
The expected impact on the following stakeholders will be as follows:

– Business associations. PYMEV belongs to several boards of directors of business entities; project scope and visibility nationally, guaranteed.
– Technical universities and vocational training centers.
– Research centers and technological development.
– Impact which has among the participants of the consortium: it is a useful training tool.

As impact of the project, given its innovative character, we hope, once tested and analyzed the results of the 3 games of gamification, will be implemented in different training centers, associations, companies and institutions, in order to check them the benefits for the enhancement of professional skills is obtained through the use of innovative training methods as those based on gamification.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 90624 Eur

Project Coordinator

PYMEV & Country: ES

Project Partners

• i-Business Internet Strategies Consultants, S.L.
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE B. LORENZI FUMANE VR
• UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
• Asociatia pentru Dezvoltare Antreprenoriala, Pregatire Profesionala si Transfer Tehnologic (ADAPT)
• BULGARIAN INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION – UNION OF THE BULGARIAN BUSINESS