Through Enterprise Erasmus Project

Project Title

Through Enterprise

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Migrants’ issues; Gender equality / equal opportunities

Project Summary

“Through Enterprise” (TRUE) was based on the premise that we must do more to enable the social and economic integration of newcomers to our societies. TRUE partners see this in our daily work and it causes us concern: ow number of courses on enterprise in community organizations and specifically low rates of participation from foreign born females in enterprise training. Entrepreneurship training has increasingly shown to be a useful mean of combining skills training with integration: when taught as a transversal skill, it can be a path to business creation, employment, involvement in community initiatives or simply problem solving and self-esteem.

Working with VET partners from both community groups and entrepreneurship training providers our specific objectives are to create:

IO1 A “Reach and Teach” catalogue, a guide for VET providers to improve engagement and understanding – achieved a total of 624 downloads and direct distribution across all languages. This surpassed our target of 550 downloads and direct distribution

IO2 A set of Open Educational Resources, which helps organisations to integrate new and effective approaches to inclusive education.Hugely successful VET course which saw us develop 9 modules instead of 6 with the investment of our additional intellectual output days reallocated from meeting and multiplier events. The TRUE Curriculum contains 9 modules to a very high standard (as verified through pilot testing) a learning framework including outcomes and assessment guides, and a pack of multimedia learning resources designed to be used by trainers in classroom scenarios to teach women from immigrant or ethnic minority backgrounds an engaging and usable entrepreneurial skillset. In all, there have been 13,400+ downloads of some part of IO2,
• The course/elements of the English course were downloaded 4221 times with the learning framework education guides downloaded 355 and the learning resource pack downloaded 339 times
• The Italian course was downloaded almost 3000 times, the Swedish course was downloaded over 2,500 times and the Turkish course almost 3,000 times.

IO3 A multilingual online training course is available in 4 languages builds professional capabilities and self-confidence for female migrants and refugees directly empowering them to engage with their new local community. The online courses are very interactive with quizzes, additional resources and a discussion facility for learners to engage with. It has been created in the Ted-Ed platform, hence it has a very good reach. Pilot testing shows that we surpassed all the measurement metrics for satisfactory learning outcomes content is very useful, very relevant and the content as user friendly. Our web stats show the online course access has exceeded 3,000 learners.

Our Multiplier Events events were obviously affected by COVID restrictions, including the impact of staff sicknesses. However, 4 of the 5 events were able to proceed in total more attended by 138 people through online events in UK Ireland initially and 40 people were able to attend an in-person multiplier event in Turkey.

Our dissemination activities again surpassed our expectations, our website www.throughenterprise.eu and social media channels achieved visits of 18,760 people to engage with our materials and information exceeding the target of 10,000.

TRUE has benefitted and yielded tangible results for our target groups:
– MIGRANT WOMEN who were previously excluded or marginalized in the labour market, are empowered to unlock their professional and personal capabilities. Some will go on to create businesses, many will use their entrepreneurial skillset for other employment, social or community benefits.
– VET COLLEGES, ENTERPRISE CENTRES and other education providers have gained greater awareness regarding the importance of inclusive entrepreneurship education and new and improved resources to cater to the needs of migrant women through the lens of inclusion, diversity and intercultural integration.
– COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS (WOMEN FOCUSED, MIGRANT SERVICES etc) have the resources to understand the value of entrepreneurship skills thanks to new relationships with VET organizations and will be able to refer beneficiaries to the open, online course as an immediate path for training and career development.
– PROJECT PARTNERS have been the first to benefit from the ability to integrate new approaches to inclusive education and their work in synergy with organisations from other sectors. Staff have a greater appreciation of the more modern, professional environment and are also more capable of work on high scale international collaborative projects.
– WIDER STAKEHOLDERS from across the VET, community and migrant services sectors were exposed to new forms of inclusive entrepreneurship education and are more likely to commit to more practical strategies for improving inclusion and diversity on a wider level.

Project Website

https://throughenterprise.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 248142 Eur

Project Coordinator

FOLKUNIVERSITETET STIFTELSEN VID LUNDS UNIVERSITET & Country: SE

Project Partners

• MOMENTUM MARKETING SERVICES LIMITED
• Frontiera Lavoro
• CANICE CONSULTING LIMITED
• Go-Woman! Alliance Community Interest Company
• Bursa Education and Youth Association