Enhanced ENTREpreneurial attitude in adult education for a better LABour market integration Erasmus Project

Project Title

Enhanced ENTREpreneurial attitude in adult education for a better LABour market integration

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: Pedagogy and didactics; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

In order to reduce unemployment, the entrepreneurial education is considered a key factor for competitiveness and employment, social inclusion and personal development. The rapid changes in the information society continuously require new skills and new information. In order to adapt to this need, a new type of attitude, initiative and responsibility was needed. The valorisation of entrepreneurial attitude has the potential to improve traditional education, preparing people for life and offering the opportunities to adult people to find their place in the labour market, either by more easily finding a new job as a result of having an entrepreneurial attitude and mindset, or by starting and running their own business. The role of education as a foundation for the future and as the main factor responsible for the development of professional skills is to encourage adult learners to practice by developing innovative ideas centered on creativity, through a process of “learning by doing”.
Learning though ecosystems of entrepreneurship will be even more urgent in the near and more distant future, because low-skilled jobs are systematically disappearing from the European labor market. Unfortunately, at the moment the education systems across Europe are not delivering this, as they are either based on traditional general empowerment or on the training of specific skills. Therefore they are not responding to the need for entrepreneurial learning, innovative learning settings and interaction with real-life situations.

In order to address the above, the ENTRELAB project focused on the promotion of the entrepreneurial spirit through the development of a model ecosystem with the ultimate goal to stimulate creativity and entrepreneurship. The main aim of the project was to empower trainers to create ecosystems of entrepreneurial learning for adult education, by assuming the role of the drivers of such ecosystems, with the following specific objectives:
-Promoting entrepreneurial culture by creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem, oriented to change, innovation and creativity
-Developing entrepreneurship at different levels of training as an incentive for people through strengthening entrepreneurial initiatives as a source of progress
-Developing entrepreneurial skills among people by raising awareness towards entrepreneurial culture

The project outcomes published on the project online platform offer scenario-based guidance to help trainers and adult educators across Europe to create entrepreneurial education and learning. The Intellectual Outputs of the project are listed below:
-ENTRELAB multilingual online platform with different interactive functionalities (https://www.entrelab.eu/);
– ENTRELAB entrepreneurial guide “European opportunities in entrepreneurial education”;
– ENTRELAB training kit “Entrepreneurial learning in adult education”;
– eBook ENTRELAB “Enhanced ENTREpreneurial attitude in adult education for a better LABour market integration” (with ISBN)

The primary target group of the ENTRELAB project consists of trainers selected from/by the partner organisations and local partners (stakeholders). Due to their specific skills and competencies gained through their involvement in the project activities, the primary target group uses the peer training method to mentor the secondary target group which will consist of larger group of trainers from the partner communities – decision makers in the field of education– who were involved in developing the local ecosystems of entrepreneurial learning.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 177917,15 Eur

Project Coordinator

Resurscentrum Arvidsjaur Kommun & Country: SE

Project Partners

• A Rocha – Associação Cristã de Estudo e Defesa do Ambiente
• 1st EK KAVALAS
• QUARTER MEDIATION
• Università delle LiberEtà del Fvg