InternPrize : Business Ideas Generation Erasmus Project

Project Title

InternPrize : Business Ideas Generation

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: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

BIG InternPrize (InternPrize: Business Ideas Generation) is a Strategic Partnership for VET between 16 organisations including providers of HE, VET, Adult Education and other players in entrepreneurship education, experimentation, research and innovation in education.

Under the leadership of Akdeniz University of Antalya they will:
– engage at least 80 VET trainers, 120 VET students and 32 entrepreneurs in a structured Community of Practice therefore building on the successful experience and exploiting the platform and tools generated in two previous E+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships for VET,
– introduce research into VET and publish at least 16 mini papers on the potential of mobile video bite size learning as a supplement to or a new form of VET and as part of a strategy to keep students at risk of ESL in education, bring ESLs, NEETs, resistant, reluctant and unlikely learners back into education through mobile, flexible and creative learning content,
– publish a Joint Position Paper on the potential of bite size learning called “VET for the Always Connected, the Disconnected and the Discontented.”,
– create a new trend (in style and content) in professional education of present and future VET trainers on mentoring, cultivating and supporting the generation of creative and innovative individual or joint business ideas by VET students from various disciplines,
– create at least 30 bite size video lessons on the generation and presentation of creative and innovative business ideas for VET trainers and students (and professionals / entrepreneurs) from any sector and use them in a partnership wide monitored experiment to help understand the benefit and potential of the bite size learning methodology,
– create a gallery of at least 80 individual or joint creative and innovative business ideas produced by students with the mentorship and support of VET trainers and after peer review by entrepreneurs and
– stage a public training event in which students from all the partner education and training providers present their business ideas to entrepreneurs in a face-to-face peer review activity as part of a larger well renown start-ups bootcamp.

The proposal was built after partnership wide consultation and research within the consortium that showed the need of VET becoming an education sector that is an active player in the local, regional, national and European economy. The partners built BIG InternPrize upon the premise that VET should not be a fallback form of education for students who are not keen on an academic career. On the contrary it is that sector of education that can best up the knowledge capital by opening up to closer, more creative and constructive relationships with industry. It can be the education sector able to lure people not in education and professionals into VET either as a way of getting back into education or as a form of lifelong professional development.

In this way BIG InternPrize will:
– bring research and innovation into VET making it more relevant in the lives of young people, the economy and the community around it,
– start new trends in VET both in the professional development of trainers and in the provision of professional and personal education of students and
– provoke positive change and innovation, more and higher quality knowledge capital and more social cohesion.

During the project lifetime the partners will:
– meet for four coordination meetings,
– have a training activity for VET trainers and a training event involving VET trainers, VET students and entrepreneurs and
– organise two multiplier events to share the results and outputs of the project giving BIG InternPrize visibility.

There will be a strong dissemination and community building around the project throughout the project lifetime that will be a partnership wide effort to bring the results and benefits of the project to as many potential beneficiaries as possible. This will, in the second half of the project, develop into a structured exploitation strategy to take the partnership and the innovation started in this project beyond the partnership and beyond the project lifetime.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 331837 Eur

Project Coordinator

AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY & Country: TR

Project Partners

• VISOKA POSLOVNA SKOLA PAR
• VisMedNet Association
• INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• Technikum Informatyki Edukacji Innowacyjnej
• Centro Integrado Público de Formación Profesional Misericordia
• INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DO PORTO
• MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED