Creativity and innovation in adult education for development of entrepreneurial mind-set of citizens with fewer opportunities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Creativity and innovation in adult education for development of entrepreneurial mind-set of citizens with fewer opportunities

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: Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Unemployed citizens in our communities are the beneficiaries of our activities and their needs are directly influencing our needs, needs of partner organisations. Thus, after doing a short survey among beneficiaries, all partners agreed that they need to improve their adult education NFE activities with quality Entrepreneurial Learning (EL), in order to provide quality, attractive and effective activities for personal and professional development of citizens with fewer opportunities in their communities.
This project will meet those needs and will provide more opportunities of networking and exchange among partners in organising and promoting entrepreneurial intelligence and entrepreneurship competences of citizens and we are producing outputs that will serve as a quality knowledge management material for education of current and future adult educators for efficient and effective empowerment and mentoring of unemployed citizens for entrepreneurial mind-set development.

The proposal will enhance the existing adult education training models and curricula for entrepreneurship with the elements of creativity and entrepreneurial mind-set development. The project is designed to create a quality – innovative training model for entrepreneurship adult education, covering the existing need for modernisation of Entrepreneurial Learning, as well as the needed innovative and creative learning tools to support a quality adult education.

This project will enable further empowerment of citizens in our communities for personal, social and cognitive aspects of entrepreneurial intelligence, as well as for creativity in entrepreneurship. As the competences of creativity and innovation (for entrepreneurship) are the most important and difficult to develop, we believe that it is needed to approach it creatively and innovatively. Thus, we are exploring the methodology of Adventure Rooms for development of creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship adult education. This connection of Adventure rooms methodology and education is fully innovative and has not been explored yet.

This project builds up on our previous experience with the aspect of entrepreneurial intelligence, mind-set and creativity competences, as a new level of adult learning for self-employment and entrepreneurship.

Project objectives:
• Empower unemployed citizens (with lower basic skills for entrepreneurship) in entrepreneurial intelligence and mind-set development (including intrapersonal and interpersonal social-emotional and creativity competences)
• Empower our adult educators and improve knowledge management of adult education institutions and organisations in theory and practice for building competences of adult educators in entrepreneurial mind-set and creativity in entrepreneurship development of citizens
• Exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 4 European countries with different realities in regards to citizens’ self-employment and entrepreneurship

We expect following direct participants / beneficiaries of our project:
– 12 staff / project managers and assistants;
– 15 teachers/trainers/researchers and technicians working on the intellectual outputs;
– 30 multipliers adult educators that will test the outputs with at least 120 citizens (with fewer opportunities) on local level
– 24 adult educators, participants at the LTTA
– 245 participants of the multiplier events;

Project activities:
A1 Project Management
M1 Kick-off meeting
O1 Handbook “Entrepreneurial Mind-set development within adult education”
M2 Second meeting
O2 Guidebook w Curriculum “Using creative methods for development of innovation and creativity skills for entrepreneurship of adults with low basic skills”
M3 Third meeting
O3 E-learning course “Entrepreneurial mind-set development for adults with low basic skills”
M4 Fourth meeting
O4 Toolkit “Adventure room methodology in adult education for entrepreneurship”
M5 Fifth meeting
C1 LTTA “Training of trainers for adult education for creativity in entrepreneurship of citizens with fewer opportunities”
E1, E2, E3, E4 – Open conferences in RS, SE, HR, DE
M6 – Evaluation meeting

Project will directly impact organisational capacities to work on providing quality, creative and innovative entrepreneurship education to mainly unemployed citizens. We expect the positive and long-lasting effects on partner organisations who will increase their capacity and competences for providing quality adult education activities for entrepreneurial learning based on innovative approach suitable for inspiring creativity in entrepreneurship.
With all our intellectual outputs, we will influence the change and improvement of existing entrepreneurship adult NFE methodologies and programmes, at first among partner organisations of the project, and later among partner of ours and their wider network of collaborators.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 286790 Eur

Project Coordinator

YOUTH POWER GERMANY EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Preduzeće za profesionalnu rehabilitaciju i zapošljavanje osoba sa invaliditetom ITECCION DOO PANČEVO
• DOMAS, OBRT ZA PODUKU, SAVJETOVANJE I POSLOVNE USLUGE, VL. DOMAGOJ MORIC
• YOUTH POWER/UNG KRAFT
• CENTAR ZA NEFORMALNO OBRAZOVANJE I CELOZIVOTNO UCENJE UDRUZENJE
• UDRUGA ZA UNAPRJEDENJE SUVREMENIH ZIVOTNIH VJESTINA OSTVARENJE