Intercultural Business Mediator : Matching opportunities with resources for entrepreneurs Erasmus Project

Project Title

Intercultural Business Mediator : Matching opportunities with resources for 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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Economic and financial affairs (incl. funding issues); Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

BACKGROUND: The Council of the European Union adopted on 22 May 2018 a revised recommendation on European Key Competences (EKC) for lifelong learning. The development of the Digital Competence, Intercultural Competence and the Entrepreneurship Competence has proven to be valuable for Europe’s growth and prosperity. In 2017, 30.4 million persons in the EU aged 20-64 were self-employed. Of these, 26.9 million were native-born, while 3.5 million were foreign-born (of which 2.2 million were migrants born outside the EU and 1.3 million were migrants born in a different EU Member State).

NEEDS: Mobile European Citizenship and entrepreneurship is at the core of the Europe 2020 Strategy to bring Europe back to growth and higher levels of self-employment. However, self-employment is still far from being common and enhancing digital competence has an accelerating impact on entrepreneurship. The project identifies and addresses the risks of isolation of migrant entrepreneurs in a political economy. IBM-MORE considers it relevant to highlight less visible self-organizations like cooperatives in social economy sectors including the postive impact of enhancing the entrepreneurship skills among migrants in the host communities.

OBJECTIVES: In order to meet the educational needs of migrants motivated to become entrepreneurs, a qualified training support is needed through an innovative digital APPs learning. IBM-MORE project aims to support VET teachers and trainers with innovative tools and methods to stimulate the innovation, digital, intercultural and entrepreneurship competencies of VET learners through APPs-based learning. This includes a pedagogical handbook for transferability in a European context.
Our project shall explore a wider understanding of refugee integration as a means of participatory community development in the SSE sector. Capacity-building in the receiving communities is not merely a pooling of professional knowledge and resources, but an empowerment of the whole receiving community and third-country nationals to build a strong community, that considers both, the needs of newcomers and of locals.

TARGET: VET teachers and teachers responsible for training Foreign Language, Intercultural, Entrepreneurship and Digital competence to migrant entrepreneurss, who have at least EQF level A2 proficiency in the host language.

PARTNERSHIP
IBM-MORE project consortium includes MDP (BE) plus 3 partners KIST (AT), INFODEF (ES) and MIA (NO) all of whom have worked and are presently working on previous European projects. Each partner has specific expertise in migrant integration, entrepreneurship education and VET systems and brings strategic networks involving well-known partners across EU.

ACTIVITIES
IBM-MORE project is scheduled for 24 months with the following activities:
– Online Digital Database of good practices and intercultural resources for Migrant Entrepreneurs (based on needs framework identified through comparative analysis)
– Conceptualisation and creation of training curriculum based on European Key Competencies (EKC) on digital training platform for learning via APPs
– IBM-MORE pedagogical handbook
– Project management and implementation comprising quality control measures (monitoring) to ensure timely implementation as per allocated budget.
– IBM-MORE Final Dissemination Conference

METHODOLOGY
The definition of each activity group has been designed to ensure a balanced distribution between the objectives and activities of the project and to guarantee that each partner would be leading at least one group of activity. All activities have one lead partner and each partner will lead or participate in at least one activity. All partners will participate actively in all activities, intellectual outputs and responsibilities of all activities have been agreed with all partners prior to submission of this application

OUTPUTS
1. Online Digital Database of good practices and intercultural resources for Migrant Entrepreneurs
2. IBM-MORE Digital Training Platform for learning EKC via APPs
3. IBM-MORE pedagogical handbook
– Several marketing/dissemination and exploitation/valorisation initiatives and outcomes.

IMPACT ENVISAGED
– Migrant entrepreneurs (80)
– participating organisations and their trainers (40)
– IBM-MORE pilot in all countries (80)
• Stakeholders involved in dissemination (200);
• VET providers, decision and policy makers (80).
– IBM-MORE Final Conference participants (approx 30)

LONG TERM BENEFITS
The project will have a direct impact in the improvement of the skills that teachers and trainers require to effectively support EKC digital and entrepreneurship competence, providing them with innovative tools and resources to stimulate the innovation and the digital and entrepreneurship competencies by migrant learners and apprentices. The impact envisaged is a strengthening of the VET education and learning Europaen Key Competencies via APPs to boost migrant entrepreneurship

Project Website

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EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 267995,32 Eur

Project Coordinator

LE MONDE DES POSSIBLES ASBL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• INSTITUTO PARA EL FOMENTO DEL DESARROLLO Y LA FORMACION SL
• Stiftelsen Mangfold i arbeidslivet (MiA)
• KIST Consult e.U.