REady for BUSiness – Integrating and validating practical entrepreneurship skills in engineering and ICT studies Erasmus Project

Project Title

REady for BUSiness – Integrating and validating practical entrepreneurship skills in engineering and ICT studies

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 : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

European business sector pays an ever more increasing attention to competences such as sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. The recommendation 2006/962/EC on key competences for lifelong learning highlights paramount importance of these key competences for employability. These competences related to entrepreneurship play a paramount role in EU neighbouring countries in their development process towards higher performing market economies and convergence with EU economic and social standards, their employers miss these competences in graduates particularly from ICT and engineering. WB countries and Russia in general have a high level of resistance to private initiatives, business and entrepreneurship. Many of the youngsters prefer “safe” employment at public enterprises, awareness and appreciation of own entrepreneurship potentials is low.The project aims at developing, testing, validating and mainstreaming holistic and needs driven open learning modules to promote entrepreneurship competences of ICT and engineering graduates at the interface of academic education and learning in practice business contexts.Competence level of graduates in participating partner countries is researched and regional training needs are identified; modular, practice-oriented entrepreneurship trainings are developed; validation system comprising a suite of entrepreneurship-related competences descriptions, context-related reference systems to assess and evidence these competences, and an online assessment and validation system based on the proven and tested Level 5 approach are created and used; a connection of this assessment and validation system to formal validation and accreditation systems (ECTS) and certification systems (EUROPASS) will be explored to allow for transnational exploitation of acquired competences; entrepreneurship training modules and competence validation system are piloted, evaluated and mainstreamed into existing curricula in ICT and engineering programmes.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 948216,66 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERZITET U SARAJEVU & Country: BA

Project Partners

• BLENDED LEARNING INSTITUTIONS COOPERATIVE
• UNIVERSITAET DUISBURG-ESSEN
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO
• SIBERIAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
• EUROPEAN EDUCATION INITIATIVE
• UNIVERSITET ALEKSANDER XHUVANI ELBASAN
• KOLEGJI UNIVERSUM O.P