Cultural heritage entrepreneurs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cultural heritage entrepreneurs

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

CHEER project aims to tackle unemployment and social exclusion of disadvantaged groups with social entrepreneurship through cultural heritage. The project will develop and test methodologies and instruments to support long term unemployed people so that they can exploit the local cultural heritage of their region as the basis for the development of social enterprises, local capacity building and social inclusion.

CHEER project targets:
– Adult trainers, business consultants, incubators, social business associations
– Final beneficiaries: long-term unemployed people from poor economic and social background and have fewer chances to further education, employment and entrepreneurship
– Indirect beneficiaries: local communities

CHEER project proposes methodologies and instruments to support long term unemployed people so that they can exploit the local cultural heritage of their region as the basis for the development of social enterprises, local capacity building and social inclusion.

The proposed methodology includes the following steps:
– identification of competences, through a structured interview and a template for recording the interview results, resulting in a “Competence profile”. The tool will consist of instructions for the interviewer, the interview grid and the template for the Competence profile.

– trainers’ guide, which will include all necessary information and guidance, so that the adult trainers will be able to work with unemployed people and support them in exploiting cultural heritage for social entrepreneurship. The trainer’s guide will be tested and validated by 4 trainers in each country. One of them will also attend a “capacity building” workshop in order to get prepared for the pilot testing of the training programme.

– 4-weeks training programme with practical activities and tools delivered through a combination of on-line training, workshops and coaching sessions, aiming at training the participants into social entrepreneurship and presenting case studies of successful local social companies. The workshops will take place once per week and their aim is to engage the learners in practical acitivities, group discussions and case studies related to the contents of the e-learning programme:
1) Introduction to basic entrepreneurial skills and culture
2) Find your business idea through cultural heritage. Exploit the different types of cultural properties for commercial use – Case studies of sales and/or services business
3) Research the market in your local community
4) Local framework for operating a social enterprise (access to finance, regulatory framework)
5) How to make your cultural heritage social enterprise sustainable
6) Develop a network of social enterprises and establish strong partnership with the community
At the end of the focus groups, there will be coaching sessions (individual or in small groups depending on the group of learners). During these sessions, the learners will have the opportunity to ask for specific guidance for the progress of their business idea.

– on-line learning platform with additional on-line learning resources, such as webinars, videos, Information sharing space and social networking space. During the project implementation an initial number of 60 disadvantaged people (10 in each country) will attend the Training Programme and develop their entrepreneurial qualities, experiences, attributes and skills that will support them in social entrepreneurship. During the Training Programme, they will formulate business ideas and work towards transferring these ideas into social businesses.

– 3 webinars in English will present and explain the 3 outputs of the project: the methodology for identification of competences, the training programme and the use of the on-line platform.

– 6 more webinars will be organised for the aspiring entrepreneurs presenting the national challenges in social entrepreneurship. All webinars will remain available on the platform.

– the information space will be a national information space (one for each country), including documents, resources and links on national social entrepreneurship and local cultural heritage, gathered together and displayed in an easy to follow way.

Basic aim of the project is to create an on-line learning community of people who want to start a social business exploiting the local cultural heritage.

The expected impact of CHEER project is:
1. To encourage and support start-up social enterprises to make an impact on their local communities
2. To build social entrepreneurship capacity within local communities
3. To combat long-term unemployment, alienation, discrimination and poverty
4. To motivate and empower people with difficulties to insert the labour market
5. To exploit the local cultural heritage for the economic and social growth of local communities

Project Website

http://www.cheertheproject.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 269765 Eur

Project Coordinator

Zentrum für interkulturelle Bildung und Arbeit & Country: DE

Project Partners

• SOZOPOL FOUNDATION
• ASOCIATIA MILLENIUM CENTER ARAD
• AINTEK SYMVOULOI EPICHEIRISEON EFARMOGES YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS EKPAIDEFSI ANONYMI ETAIREIA
• VEREIN MULTIKULTURELL
• RADOSAS IDEJAS
• LAOGRAFIKI ETAIREIA VARNAVA
• Compass – Beratung, Begleitung und Training Gemeinnützige GmbH