Chatbot technologies for digital entrepreneurship education of adult learners Erasmus Project

Project Title

Chatbot technologies for digital entrepreneurship education of adult learners

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: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Pedagogy and didactics; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

CHAT2LEARN is a 30-month project focusing on the innovative use of Technology Enhanced Learning and chatbot technologies into adult education, especially for teaching digital entrepreneurship. It brings the capacity of 5 different organisations – one university, two adult education providers, one chamber of commerce and one SME specialised in digital educational solutions from Cyprus, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Through the project, we will answer to the raised expectations of nowadays learners, especially economically active people and entrepreneurs, who need innovative educational practices that create unique and tailor-made learning experiences, will equip adult educators, teachers, tutors and training professionals with innovative tools, methodologies and resources for teaching digital entrepreneurship and to raise their awareness about the possibilities which chatbot-based technologies and AI-based tools give for improving the educational process.

Our overall objective is to promote Technology Enhanced Self-learning in the field of digital entrepreneurship and to equip adult educators and training professionals with new methodologies and tools on how to apply the chatbot learning environment into the educational process.

The specific objectives are:
1. Creating opportunities for adult educators, trainers, entrepreneurs, and adult learners, in general, to combine e-learning education and open pedagogy with innovative AI-based tools based on Technology Enhanced Learning and chatbot technologies;
2. Enriching self-learning opportunities of adult learners in the field of digital entrepreneurship by developing an inter-disciplinary Training Programme based on chatbot technology;
3. Improving competences of non-formal and informal adult educators and training professionals by developing a Methodology on how to incorporate chatbot technologies into the educational process and a ToT Handbook on how to create and use chatbot educational content for teaching entrepreneurship;
4. Creating a network of professionals in the field of formal, non-formal and informal education, who are familiar with or interested in Technology Enhanced Learning and chatbot technologies;
5. Promoting cross-sector and transnational cooperation and exchange of experience, best practices and lessons learned between partner countries, and educational and training centers from formal, non-formal and informal education.

Our target groups are adult learners, who want to improve their digital entrepreneurship skills, and adult educators (teachers, trainers, tutors). Indirect target groups are formal and non-formal training providers and small and micro-sized entrepreneurs, including social entrepreneurs, who want to include chatbot technologies in their daily practices.

The innovativeness of the project is in the approach which we will use to combine e-learning education and open pedagogy with AI-based tools based on Technology Enhanced Learning and chatbot technologies. In order to do so, we will use the learner-centered model of education and principles of open source and user-friendly software.

The project includes 3 IOs and the following activities: collecting best practices and tools on Technology Enhanced Learning and creation of a Resource Library on the topic; developing a Methodology how to incorporate chatbot technologies into the educational process and a ToT Handbook how to create and use chatbot educational content for teaching entrepreneurship; technical development of a chatbot learning environment and creation of an inter-disciplinary Training programme with 5 lessons on digital entrepreneurship. We will involve 20 adult learners in each project country to test the practical applicability of the lessons. All resources and materials will be done in English, with translation in all partner languages and will be available on the project website.

The project will be widely disseminated in partners’ countries through different channels and activities and organisation of 4 local multiplier events and one International Dissemination Conference in Cyprus.

The expected impact is: 1) to raise digital and professional competences of adult educators and training professionals about the many applications of AI-based tools and Technology Enhanced Learning into formal, non-formal and informal adult education and how to apply chatbot learning environment into their daily practices, especially when teaching entrepreneurship; 2) to raise the knowledge and skills of adult learners in the field of digital entrepreneurship and to encourage them to use modern digital self-learning tools based on chatbot technologies; 3) through the project to promote networking between adult education and training providers, universities, chambers of commerce and public bodies at national and international level and to encourage them to use AI-based tools and chatbot learning environments for improving the educational process.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 194452 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS & Country: CY

Project Partners

• DOMSPAIN SLU
• Lidi Smart Solutions
• ASSET BASILICATA azienda speciale della Camera di Commercio della Basilicata
• NIKANOR LTD