Projects On Time and On Budget Erasmus Project

Project Title

Projects On Time and On Budget

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

SMEs are important within Europe’s economy. In 2019, SMEs in the EU-28 NFBS accounted representing almost all EU-28 NFBS sector enterprises (99.8%); and slightly less than three-fifths (56.4%) of the value added generated by the NFBS. The competitiveness of Europe’s SMEs needs to be improved especially through the digital transformation of enterprises.

Research shows that SMEs lag in digitalisation. Digital diffusion tends to be lower in smaller firms as they face more difficulties in undertaking the complementary investments in skills and organisational changes that are needed to adopt and benefit from technology.

This Erasmus+ project, Project On-Time and On-Budget (PRONTO) will focus on two specific questions: (1) how to support the VET sector to be better equipped to meet the demands of the digital era and (2) how to support enterprise and entrepreneurship to improve competitiveness and performance. The project will result in the development and deployment of high quality, innovative work-based VET within the context of helping entrepreneurs to implement high impact, results-focused business improvement projects. The aim is to identify the lessons from this project which will be implemented in the context of VET teacher/trainers engaged in entrepreneurship training and to share these lessons with the wider VET sector and other stakeholders.

PRONTO will (1) support the continuous professional development of VET teacher/trainers in the use of digital technology and (2) upskill entrepreneurs in the use of digital technology in their enterprise. The long-term aim of PRONTO is to improve the performance of Europe’s SMEs through the development of a network of VET teacher/trainers supporting SMEs to improve business performance using a new VET performance tool called PRONTO.

PRONTO’s objectives are:
1. To develop a new VET tool (PRONTO) and learning portal designed to help entrepreneurs and managers to implement business performance improvements;
2. To train 14 VET teacher/trainers in the use and delivery of PRONTO, ultimately leading to a European network of Approved PRONTO trainers;
3. To inspire managers and entrepreneurs from SMEs in IT, UK, PT, NL EL and ES and other countries to use the PRONTO VET tool and learning portal
4. To raise awareness of VET stakeholders responsible for increasing the competitiveness and performance of SMEs of the PRONTO VET tool and methodology

This will be achieved through the development of a new project management methodology and on-line tool (PRONTO) designed to enable managers and entrepreneurs from SMEs to deliver business improvement projects on time and on budget. PRONTO will provide a step-by-step project management methodology and training course specifically for managers and entrepreneurs from SMEs. It will enable users to create project plans in 30 minutes or less using the 30-minute ready-to-use PRONTO project plans leading to concrete results and improved performance.
Partners will also develop a series of digital Learning Journeys about how to execute high impact business projects, and an e-book, ‘A Guide to Effective Business Projects which will be used to showcase how the effective digital technology and tools in business.

In the longer-term, the PRONTO partners will develop a network of VET teacher/trainers supporting SMEs to improve business performance using a new VET performance tool called PRONTO.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 241986 Eur

Project Coordinator

Exponential Training & Assessment Limited & Country: UK

Project Partners

• ASSET BASILICATA azienda speciale della Camera di Commercio della Basilicata
• SOLUCIONES TECNO-PROFESIONALES CONSULTING
• MAERA – MANAGEMENT, ACCOUNTING AND EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
• Klare Koek B.V.
• STICHTING LEARNING HUB FRIESLAND
• NIKOLETTA GEORGOGIANNI BEST CYBERNETICS SINGLE MEMBER PRIVATE COMPANY