Stimulating And Validating digital Entrepreneurship as the best way to increasing the quality of start-ups. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Stimulating And Validating digital Entrepreneurship as the best way to increasing the quality of start-ups.

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

CONTEXT
Industry 4.0 is expected to boost the productivity and value added of European industries and stimulate economic growth. As part of its new Digital Single Market Strategy, the European Commission wants to help all industrial sectors exploit new technologies and manage a transition to a smart, Industry 4.0 industrial system.
Most of the currently available VET programs do not foresee the development of the mentioned skills. Therefore, the project Consortium has identified the need to build on the content and resources within, for VET learners to acquire adequate competences to participate on the labour market in the Industry 4.0 sector. An additional challenge is that start uppers are very busy persons, expecting training on practical and time saving solutions, which they could immediately apply in their professional environments. The IOs to be delivered will be tailored to meet these requirements.

OBJECTIVES
The project aim is to strengthen the quality of start-uppers, young entrepreneurs and VET providers and enhance their professional development through improving digital entrepreneurship competences as well as give them opportunity to validate these competences and adapt VET provision.
Experiences with start-uppers are commonly analysed not on local or regional level but across countries, because those firms operates in specific, mostly high-tech sectors and their scope of activity is often transitional. That is the first reason, why this project should be done within transnational partnership. The second one is the experience and background of entities involved in the project (related with start-ups support or collaboration with), which have to be joined to get synergy effect.

Main TARGET GROUPS
The target groups in this project are Start-uppers, Young entrepreneurs, as well as VET Teachers and VET providers from Poland, Lithuania Spain, Cyprus, Portugal and Slovakia.

RESULTS
1.1. IO1 – Curriculum for VET providers – “Digital, Modern Entrepreneurship it’s your best chance!”- extended curriculum containing the aim, the objectives, the rationale, the content with the description of the 7 modules, duration of the training course, forms and methods of delivery, the learning outcomes and the validation tool for VET providers, references.

The aim of the curriculum is to define the framework for developing of the training modules under the IO2. Additionally this program is devoted to developing of VET providers and Vet Teachers competences in the field of validation of digital entrepreneurship competences. The size of the program will about 70 pages. This program is devoted to enhance start-uppers professional development through improving digital entrepreneurship competences as well as give them opportunity to validate these competences and adapt VET provision.
1.2. IO2 – Digital training materials for start-uppers – set of OERs with m-learning interface containing training materials for start-uppers and consisting of 7 modules:
1. ‘Digital start-ups’ vs ‘Digital scale-ups’,
2. Circular economy in your start-up,
3. Digital Lifestyle entrepreneurship,
4. Internet of Thing in entrepreneurial practice,
5. Infrastructures of sensors in daily business usage,
6. Analytics algorithms for customers Big Data,
7. Cybersecurity in your start-up.

The major innovation of the SAVE start-ups project is that it gives the opportunity to the targeted groups to enhance their digital skills, emphasising on concepts like Digital Entrepreneurship, IoT in entrepreneurial practice, Circular Economy and how start-ups can embrace this concept.

PARTNERSHIP
The SAVE partnership constitutes of representatives from Poland (RARR and Danmar), Spain (Sea Tech), Lithuania (SIF), Portugal (Mindshift), Cyprus (GrantXpert) and Slovakia (TUKE)- organizations experienced in impacting on societies lacking sufficient skills or resources.

Partners have implemented projects aimed to start-ups, new business models and education. Main dividing line is, that SAVE project (unlike other projects) is focused on wide target groups, not only on people want to establish or develop their own start-up, but also on young entrepreneurs and their VET trainers and providers. It is an example of systemic approach to the problem of start-ups staff education, as well as developing the Entrepreneurial Digital Competencies

Project Website

https://savestartups.erasmus.site/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 264503 Eur

Project Coordinator

RZESZOWSKA AGENCJA ROZWOJU REGIONALNEGO SPOLKA AKCYJNA & Country: PL

Project Partners

• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO
• Sea Teach S.L.
• TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V KOSICIACH
• SOCIALINIU INOVACIJU FONDAS
• Mindshift Talent Advisory lda
• GRANTXPERT CONSULTING LIMITED