IMPACT on Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

IMPACT on Youth

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

TITLE: Impact on Youth (IOY)
TYPOLOGY: Strategic partnership for the exchange of Good practices and Innovation
DURATION: 24 months
PARTNERS:
4 partner organisations (Spain, Ireland, Poland and Portugal)
TARGET GROUPS / BENEFICIARIES:
· Educators in the field of formal and non-formal education (youth workers, counselors, teachers, social workers, trainers, etc.)
· Young people between 15 and 20 years old from different educational groups (high school students, VET, university students, members of youth organizations and NEET youth.
· Organizations of the youth sector, public and private educational centers, insertion entities, and everything interested in promoting entrepreneurship among young people.

OBJECTIVE:
The project aims to give answer to the need for innovative approaches for the development and recognition of entrepreneurial skills.
 
MAIN ACTIVITIES:
A. [INTELLECTUAL PRODUCTS]
O1 – IMPACT entrepreneurial skills measurement tool (www.impact-test.eu).
The IMPACT tool, based on the European EntreComp skills framework, will be set by 15 individual tests to measure entrepreneurial skills. The IMPACT toll will make it possible to measure separately the level of acquisition of each of the entrepreneurial skills in the indicated above framework. Both, the users and the educators will be able to obtain realistic knowledge about their competences and monitor their progress.
 
The IMPACT competency measurement Tool was originally created within the framework of the eponymous project (which inspired this proposal). Currently, the tool incorporates measurement tests of three of the fifteen entrepreneurship competencies collected in EntreComp. Through this proposal, the aim is to conclude the work begun previously incorporating the remaining twelve competences.

Breakdown of skills:
Area: Ideas and opportunities
1. Creativity
2. Sustainable and ethical thinking,
3. Vision
4. Valuing ideas

Area: In action
5. Management and planning
6. Teamwork,
7. Work as a team
8. Learn from experience

Area: Resources
9. Self awareness and effectiveness
10. Financial and economic knowledge
11. Know how to mobilize others
12. Know how to mobilize resources

The project already starts with the basis of having developed the following tests:
1) Motivation and perseverance (Area: Resources),
2) Initiative (Area: In Action)
3) Recognize opportunities (Area: Ideas and opportunities)

The innovative nature of the IMPACT Tool with respect to the existing ones is the approach based on the EntreComp document. It enables analysis of each competence individually, instead of valuing the capacity for entrepreneurship as a whole (without breaking down by competence), as the existing tools do. This approach allows a greater versatility for educators, since they can identify the specific learning needs of their learners and intervene on them.

IMPACT
The project aims to ensure an impact throughout the life of the project that is sustainable upon completion. Our primary audience are educators (youth workers, teachers, and social workers) such as non-formal education organizations and formal education centers.

[AT LOCAL / REGIONAL LEVEL] Among others we hope to achieve the following impact:
– Improvement of entrepreneurial skills and, therefore, of employability of young people who have participated in educational activities for the development of entrepreneurial skills during the piloting of the IMPACT tool in the different communities. After the completion of the project, this impact will continue as the member entities of the Consortium and other entities at the local / regional level have committed to a further dissemination of the tool and its incorporation into the didactic tools they already are using.
 
 [AT NATIONAL / EUROPEAN LEVEL]:
– Improvement of the procedures for the measurement of entrepreneurial skills thanks to the availability of the IMPACT Tool for measuring entrepreneurial skills, available in English and in the other official languages ​​of the consortium, which can be used directly by any entity working in the scope of development of skills for entrepreneurship.

DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS
A Plan for the dissemination and exploitation of results has been planned to give visibility to the intellectual products developed, as well as a Sustainability Plan to guarantees an impact once the project has concluded. All tangible results of the project will be licensed under Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial Share Alike.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 84935 Eur

Project Coordinator

ASOCIACION JOVENES SOLIDARIOS ARENAS DE SAN PEDRO & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi
• Federação das Associações Juvenis do Distrito de Santarém
• MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED