Employability Entrepeneurship and Recovery Erasmus Project

Project Title

Employability Entrepeneurship and Recovery

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

The European Commission’s Europe 2020 Strategy focuses on reducing poverty, the challenge of reducing poverty risk is linked to the inequality debate. The European Pillar of Social Rights presented by the European Commission in April 2017 addresses income inequality more explicitly. The third principle of the Pillar sets out the right to equal opportunities for all. Of the 14 headline indicators in the accompanying Social Scoreboard, one relates directly to income inequality, while several others address policy areas closely related to combatting rising income inequality and providing more equal chances. This Project seeks to address this, in particular by sharing the Good Practices already developed by the partner countries in relationship to Empowerment , Employability and Entrepreneurship training programmes. Bringing together 5 organisations expert in working with the most marginilised and excluded members of society from 4 partner countries : Scotland, Italy , Sweden and The Netherlands.
Within this Project we seek to promote Social Inclusion for some of the most excluded members of society by supporting them on their journey of re-integration into vocational training , employment and self-employment by each of the partners sharing our current successful programmes, comparing what works well and areas for development in order to enhance the quality of provision for this specialist group and other disadvantaged groups within society . This will, in turn result in the development of relevant and high-quality skills and competences as the quality of the training programmes will be enhanced and further developed as a result of this Project in all four partner countries .
The duration of the project is 22 months and project activities have been broken down into a four stage plan:
*1st stage: Preparation and creation of templates, review existing materials, gather examples of Good practice
*2nd stage: Improvement phase
*3rd stage: Production of enhanced materials
*4th stage : Review and amend on-going plans for dissemination and exploitation of the results of the Project and prepare for future collaborations

-Methodological route
The route of the methodology is research, consult and improve.
Amongst the project stakeholders, we will conduct primary research with surveys, questionnaires and focus groups.
This feedback will lead to improvements in the materials and the production of the final version, as a preparatory step for making the materials available on each partners’ website as open educational resources.
EEAR’s desired impact is based around the usage of empowering training to combat marginalisation and develop people to become employable and able to develop into self-employment . Our goal is to provide better services that engage and empower the learner to develop skills, continue to learn and look at developing enterprises as they move into the labour market.
Staff that participate within the project, partnership and our localized activities will gain in confidence and self-esteem resulting from the development of new knowledge and skills.
The partnership will impact upon the partners by increasing their ability to engage and respond to the skills needs of their learners and staff, provide an EU focus to addressing common problems and provide solutions to sustainable employment.

Across Europe the impact is:
1) Aligned to relationship between training provision and training need for beneficiaries of schemes – innovative methods used to support learners in various settings.
2) Improved trainer skills for the staff members of the partners, that will aid their development to higher teaching qualifications and the usage of ECVET for non-formal training paths.
3) Creation of a network of training providers that delivers a common empowering, employability and entrepreneurship curriculum.

•Share/embed lessons through our network – connecting with Learning Networks at levels (EU, National, Regional and Local)
•Provide case studies and training materials
•Allow for the exchange of training ideas, materials and other resources
As part of the project we will encourage partners to:
*prepare and deliver a pilot of EU learning across their organisational activities
*testing out and documenting how learning has helped adapt local their provision – detailing its value and benefit
*Knowledge gathered will be captured and shared through our projects dissemination activities
*exchanging and sharing ideas and learning by working with regional partners
*an active dissemination campaign that gets our message out to projects
In the longer term We intend to continue as a team or act as a virtual European network for the organisations to learn and be guided by our work. This will also ensure we develop new content so our work can remain relevant to the EU 2020 Strategy and its successor

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 67150 Eur

Project Coordinator

LIGHT ON THE PATH LTD & Country: UK

Project Partners

• STICHTING DUTCH FOUNDATION OF INNOVATION WELFARE 2 WORK
• Glasgow Council on Alcohol
• CPA di Giuseppina Bomba
• KPMSK ekonomisk förening