First time in Europe there are over 25 million unemployed. That is the result of an economic crisis occured in 2008 ans since then Europe has been fighting with it. After many researches and discussions done by EU, Europe found the way out of this serious situation; Entrepreneurship. On the other hand, about 50% of new businesses fail during their first 5 years. Increasing in shutdown businesses and norrowing entrepreneurship culture indicates that entrepreneurship tainings and supports are not efficient. Because the entrepreneurship training programmes are following classical methods which are not innovative at all. As a result of this the entrepreneurs are not qualified to survive in this economic situation. Our project (SEQUEL) will produce a module called "IT based practical and innovative entrepreneurship module". Classical entrepreneurship module does not meet the needs of innovative and technology-oriented world and our project aims to develop practical, innovative and IT based module. Project SEQUEL will create awareness on entrepreneurs about the importance of being innovative, creative and better use of IT to survive in this tough economic world and entrepreneurs will gain survival skills with our module. One of the most important benefit of IT based practical and innovative entrepreneurship module is that entrepreneurs will have the ability to foreseen potatial risks with the help of our developed inventory. SEQUEL also aims to create awareness on youth people and youth entrepreneurs about how they can affect on decision making mechanism of working life. We are 8 partners that are relevant to entrepreneurship and youth from 5 different countries. Having variable organizaitons in this partnership will enhance to promote dissemination of our module. During the project we are planning to have 6 transnational meetings that will help to produce our module step by step. We will develop an IT based questionnaire to determine the entrepreneurship potential and an inventory including the results of survey on 250 successful and 250 shutdown bussinesses durin our workshops. For first time we will entegrate the socio drama method into entrepreneurship training and we aim to improve competence on creating cross board network ability by implementation of scenario. We will organize a symposium as our last meeting and we will disseminate our module through this symposium with the participation of youth groups, university students, vocational high school students, relavent organizations, stakeholders, local and national press and some experts in entrepreneurship and strategy development. There will be more than 500 people participating this event. Our methodology will be based on research, questionnaire, inventory, socio drama and using IT. Consequently, all entrepreneurs will be more qualified and innovative by practising our developed IT based innovative training module and this module will improve qualifications of entrepreneurs and potantial entrepreneurs. Increasing the qualifications of entrepreneurs will decrease the number of unemployment as a result of this SEQUEL will promote the economic recovery by increasing the number of entrepreneurs in Europe. Created scenario will facilitate to establish international partnerships for entrepreneurs. Every single person will be able to determine themselves if they have entrepreneurship potential by using our developed IT based questionnaire. Youth people and youth entrepreneurs will be aware of how they can affect on decision making mechanism of working life.
SEQUEL has been written and applied to bring a different dimension to entrepreneurship trainings. As a result of the project studies, providing “Entrepreneurship Training through Socio-Drama” and “potential determining systems” have been developed. By coming up with a new training module different from current training modules, through this module, it is aimed; • to ensure entrepreneurs stay afloat in business life for a longer time and become more successful, • to enable especially the young entrepreneur trainees to discover their entrepreneurship potential - which have not been provided in other entrepreneurship trainings. In an attempt to create such a training module with these features, the current entrepreneurship trainings both in European Union and in Turkey have been analysed and aimed to generate innovative entrepreneurship training by asking the entrepreneurs, who have already received training in these modules, about both the positive and negative aspects of their current training. These goals have been successfully achieved. Presented under the coordinatorship of Nevşehir Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the project has been conducted in cooperation with Cappadocia Development Association, a non-governmental organization with SME members from Turkey, with EISC and PROWORK, the companies which offer consulting services to SMEs from the Netherlands and England, and with such universities from Turkey and Finland as Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli, KYAMK and JAUME which provide training for young entrepreneurs. The project lasted two years and, within these two years, 5 transnational meetings and 1 symposium has been conducted. Within the project, what the financial supports and current entrepreneurship trainings are and the systems used in partner countries have been initially analysed, and then both successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs have been asked about what are used in the process of Socio-Drama technique which will be practised to make up the missing aspects of these systems. Both face-to-face meetings and questionnaires over the internet have been conducted and some information that will be used in scenarios included in “Socio-Drama” technique has been obtained. In the light of this information, a pilot scenario has been attained, and via this scenario the system of “Entrepreneurship Training through Socio-Drama” has been examined on the students of Jaume University in Spain, which have resulted in favourable outcomes. The system aimed to be obtained has been proved to serve the purpose, and a module has been created by aiming it to be IT-based in order to enable the system to be used by more people and it has been presented in Turkey through the symposium. By doing research especially on future entrepreneurs, a fundamental question “Why do you want to be an entrepreneur and why not?” has been asked them. From the given answers, a perception of entrepreneurship has been attained and a study named “21th Century Entrepreneurship Profile” has been presented in the symposium. Within the project, all the outputs like “Entrepreneurship Training Module through Socio-Drama” and “21th Century Entrepreneurship Profile” are presented in the website www.sequelproject.com. The results of the conducted questionnaires, the outcomes attained from the studies conducted on future entrepreneurs and the prepared reports have turned out to be studies which can shape the future of entrepreneurship trainings. The “Entrepreneurship Training through Socio-Drama” and “Entrepreneurship Potential Determining Technique”, both of which have not been conducted before, rank first in this field. Boosting the use of this technique with mentioned goals should be ensured. The outcomes obtained from this project will form the basis for the main subject of several projects. All the studies conducted so far can be further followed via the project web site and dissemination platform.