ENTRE-FORWARD: ENHANCING ENTREPREUNERSHIP SKILLS Erasmus Project

Project Title

ENTRE-FORWARD: ENHANCING ENTREPREUNERSHIP SKILLS

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Entrepreneurship competence has become a priority in policy agendas of modern economies and societies with the belief that this is not just about starting businesses but a vital competence within the labour market and for people in their daily lives, even for those who are not classed as ‘entrepreneurs’ in the sense of creating new business opportunities. In this sense, entrepreneurial skills are nowadays necessary in any field of activity. Thus, it is essential to define and develop the relevant key soft and entrepreneurial skills that enable a person to be employed as entrepreneur. The ENTRE project will focus on upskilling and raising awareness to educators, trainers and guidance practitioners in education, training, employment, and the general public on the development of entrepreneurial skills, as well as promoting innovative approaches to strengthen the cooperation between industry and education towards entrepreneurship and propose innovative practice-based methods, where students are involved in project work and/or in motivational activities (linking them with the business world or with the local community). The project will develop appropriate career guidance methodologies, tools, training material and curriculum for trainers, educators, guidance practitioners and other relevant professionals as well for young people too, for the development of entrepreneurship skills. The partnership will develop the training program on focusing on Entrepreneurship as a theme and a method that can be embedded in all subjects and it will be adapted to selected domains such as health and social sciences, economy and business, art and culture, primary sector, construction and manufacturing, tourism and transportation etc.
Approximately 450 people will be involved directly and 4.000 indirectly in the ENTRE-Forward project activities. Specifically, the partnership is going to involve at least 120 young people and 210 trainers/educators/guidance practitioners and 108 experts and stakeholders in Entrepreneurship and Career management, in the development of the outputs.
The ENTRE project foresees the development of 5 Intellectual Outputs. The evaluation report (IO1), a reviewing and evaluation of the existing entrepreneurship training best practices, courses to create a new prototype, and a mapping of the labour market needs and entrepreneurship prospects. IO1 will be the basis for IO2 – an on-line guidance tool for defining the relevant key soft and entrepreneurial skills and development of assessment tests, IO3 – adaptive training methodology, modular curriculum and toolkit including training material and IO4- e-guide handbook on the entrepreneurial opportunities, including also skills needs, exercises and motivational activities to entrepreneurship learning. The fifth intellectual output is a specialized on-line platform, using data analytics and including assessment tests, guide with entrepreneurship opportunities, useful information, tools, training material for improvement of entrepreneurial skills and communication section giving the opportunity to counselors, trainers and even entrepreneurs and people thinking of starting a new business.
The Project Coordinator will adopt a methodology based on participatory management approach in order to empower each partner and to comply with the commitments on which partners agreed during the project design phase and at the following check points. Each Output will foresee a coordinator of the IO and the involvement of all partners.
The ENTRE-FORWARD project results will lead at improving competences and entrepreneurship/basic business skills of educators, trainers, guidance practitioners, young people, students, new entrepreneurs and other relevant professionals. Through the results of the project, the impact will be to have better trained experts with the necessary skills, knowledge and methods to teach entrepreneurship effectively and that will lead to a widespread development of entrepreneurship education at schools and universities across Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 317844 Eur

Project Coordinator

COOPERATIVE D’INITIATIVE JEUNES & Country: FR

Project Partners

• UNIAO DAS FREGUESIAS DE GONDOMAR (SCOSME) VALBOM E JOVIM
• studio risorse s.r.l.
• ETAIREIA PROIGMENON EFARMOGON SISTIMATON DIOIKISIS-MONOPROSOPI ETAREIA PERIOPISMENIS EYTHINIS
• STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI
• DEP INSTITUT SL