Rural and Regional Libraries as Local Family Entrepreneurship centres Erasmus Project

Project Title

Rural and Regional Libraries as Local Family Entrepreneurship centres

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Europe’s economic growth and jobs depend on its ability to support the growth of enterprises. Only 37% of Europeans would like to be self-employed, compared to 51% of people in the US and China and thus Europeans should be encouraged more to set up their own business. It is also important to support rural areas as predominantly rural areas make up half of Europe and represent only around 20 % of the population. The project will promote (teach) entrepreneurship in non-urban regions, putting special focus on promotion on family business creation and will use regional and rural libraries as a platform to reach people living regional and rural areas. Using their information, technology, human, resource and networking opportunities regional and rural libraries can be of benefit for the development of local entrepreneurship, innovations and the economic activity of local society. Libraries can foster opportunities for economic growth by encouraging business development as well by helping to retain and create jobs. Thus libraries face new economic challenges and societal pressures both on regional and local level.

The OBJECTIVES of the project are:
* Development and implementation of innovative practices of teaching Entrepreneurship to people living in regional and rural areas.
* Increase sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among people living in regional and rural areas.
* Develop a system where libraries serve as a centres for rural entrepreneurship development.

DIRECT target groups of the project:
* Visitors of regional and rural libraries in Europe
* People (especially families) living in regional and rural areas of Europe.
* Librarians of regional and rural libraries

INDIRECT target groups of the project are:
* People that have moved away from rural areas in favour to urban areas. By creating new opportunities in rural areas, they could return to rural areas.
* Society in general.

Main DIRECT results of the project:
* Developed E-learning module on Entrepreneurship for usage in Libraries
* Developed Mentoring methodology and e-learning course module for librarians
* Developed Policy Paper to better exploit achieved results of the project.

Partners of the consortium represent two groups:
1) Organisations that have entrepreneurial experience and will mainly work on the development of intellectual outputs;
2) Libraries, that will disseminate and exploit developed results. Interested persons will come to libraries to go through the E-learning course (e.g. on public computers of libraries). Librarians will support them with their knowledge and enthusiasm.

The project will develop 3 intellectual outputs:
IO1 E-learning module on Entrepreneurship for usage in Libraries
IO2 Mentoring methodology and e-learning course module for librarians
IO3 Policy Paper to better exploit achieved results of the project.

There will be one teaching activity for librarians of participating libraries.

Participating libraries will each have two Multiplier events, one focused on library visitors – future users of FamilyBusinessLibrary Entrepreneurship E-course and the other to other librarians with the objective to spread the results of the project as wide, as possible.

The project will put high emphasis on exploitation of project results, that is, all communication and dissemination activities will be targeted to increase the number of interested libraries that put the E-course on their publicly available computers.

The following actions of exploitation and further use of the results do not require additional financial resources:
* Any library can adopt developed FamilyBusinessLibrary Entrepreneurship E-learning course and E-mentoring of librarians
* Any library or stakeholder or policy developer can access developed Policy Paper for reference of its future actions.

Project Website

https://family-business-library.eduproject.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 170172 Eur

Project Coordinator

SABIEDRIBA AR IEROBEZOTU ATBILDIBU ARTSMART & Country: LV

Project Partners

• Dion Olympus Municipality
• Gradska knjiznica Rijeka
• Jelgava City Library
• UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN
• Mine Vaganti NGO