Randomizing Entrepreneurship Training Through Breakout Challenges on Smartphones Erasmus Project

Project Title

Randomizing Entrepreneurship Training Through Breakout Challenges on Smartphones

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: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Promoting entrepreneurship in Europe has been a core objective of the European Union ever since the Lisbon European Council decided in March 2000 to improve the EU’s performance in the areas of employment, economic reform and social cohesion.
The development of entrepreneurship has important benefits, both economically and socially. Entrepreneurship is not only a driving force for job creation, competitiveness and growth; it also contributes to personal fulfillment and the achievement of social objectives. Moreover, numerous factors play a role in the decision to start up a business: for example, the existence of a suitable opportunity or market; the perception that starting a company might be difficult due to red tape; financial obstacles; or the need to acquire new skills. That is why the EU considers that it has a duty to encourage entrepreneurial initiatives and unlock the growth potential of its businesses and citizens. Europe’s economic growth and jobs depend on its ability to support the growth of enterprises. Entrepreneurship creates new companies, opens up new markets, and nurtures new skills. The most important sources of employment in the EU are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The Commission’s objective is to encourage people to become entrepreneurs and also make it easier for them to set up and grow their businesses.

Entrepreneurship is an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation, risk taking, ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives. Only 37% of Europeans would like to be self-employed, compared to 51% of people in the US and China. Some of the challenges to be tackled to increase the rate of entrepreneurial activity include: providing education that offers the right foundation for an entrepreneurial career; building core skils to overcome the difficulty in accessing finance and markets; mitigating the fear of ‘punitive’ sanctions in case of failure. The European Commission’s initiatives promoting entrepreneurship were summarised in an Entrepreneurship Action Plan adopted in January 2013. These initiatives aimed to reignite Europe’s entrepreneurial spirit by educating young people about entrepreneurship; highlighting opportunities for women and other groups; easing administrative requirements for entrepreneurs and making it easier to attract investors.

The proliferation of mobile technology devices and the habits and preferences of the young digital natives who use them on a daily basis for the widest possible range of activities presents both an opportunity and a challenge for educators. If these devices can be successfully harnessed to deliver entrepreneurship learning resources in formats that are coherent and attractive to today’s digital natives then the growth of the entrepreneurial spirit which is of considerable importance to all local economies may be achieved. The AppHop project consortium takes up the challenge to develop and test a completely new entrepreneurship curriculum, based on the EntreComp Framework, but presented as a series of randomized breakout challenges for access on smartphones.

There are three intellectual outputs foreseen and task allocation for their development is as follows:
IO1 – AppHop Compendium of Digital Breakout Entrepreneurship Resources – Digital Breakout learning resources will address 3 competence areas identified in the EntreComp Framework and resources will be provided to develop each of the 5 competences under each key competence area. In total 15 digital breakout resources will be developed by each of the 8 project partners
IO2 – AppHop In-service training programme – In-service training to support the CPD of VET tutors will also be provided. this training will enable tutors to develop their own digital breakout resources
IO3 – AppHop Online Interactive Portal – a bespoke online interactive portal will be developed to provide access to the new resources

Project Website

https://apphop.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 241455,4 Eur

Project Coordinator

Lancaster and Morecambe College & Country: UK

Project Partners

• JAITEK TECNOLOGÍA Y FORMACIÓN SL
• OSRODEK SZKOLENIOWO-BADAWCZY INNEO
• Rightchallenge – Associação
• CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LTD-CARDET
• Innovation Frontiers IKE
• FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED
• EUROPEAN CENTER FOR QUALITY OOD