"LET'S GUIDE! The Entrepreneurial Guidance Tool" is an EU wide partnership project designed to identify core and innovative learning methods that best encourage success entrepreneurial and international activities among low-skilled adult people, potential entrepreneurs, freelancers and unemployed in the age of 30-45 with a medium or long work experience. The consortium will design an innovative on-line training /practical guide in form of INTERACTIVE LEARNING SCENARIOS SIMULATIONS for entrepreneurship education based on real life stories (MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING APPROACH). The projects' detailed research performed before the project launch will serve as a master study for all the other project activities, but in special for the development of a entrepreneurship profile and identification of partners´ countries specific needs in business creation matter. The novel training approach in form of INTERACTIVE LEARNING SCENARIOS SIMULATIONS will be designed to help THE ASSESSMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS DECISIONS. Let´s Guide Tool is a gamified learning motivation environment that enables training providers (organizations, trainers, educators) to inspire their learners to develop their skills, change behaviors and drive innovation. Let's Guide! project Objectives: Our strategic partnership address two of the horizontal priorities relevant in the field of education, training and youth: promoting access to and learning trough Open Educational Resources (OER), supporting ICT-based teaching training. In the field of adult the partnership aims to improve and extend the offer of high quality learning opportunities tailored to individual adult learners, including through innovative ways of outreach and delivery. Our objectives are as follows:• Enhance employability and business creation among European labor market;• Develop basic and transversal entrepreneurial skills and boost entrepreneurial training for adults in education;• Enhance entrepreneurship mindsets and skills for adult audiences via formal and non-formal educational settings;• Support people’s capacity for self-development and active inclusion through the development of tailored training materials, real life experience motivation and sharing of know-how between those active in entrepreneurship and the “potential” ones;• Develop innovative tools to allow adult people to assess and present their entrepreneurial skills and competences and pilot-test these tools in a group of 30 potential future entrepreneurs; The direct target group to which the project’s outcomes are dedicated is:(1) ADULT LEARNERS: low-skilled adult people, potential entrepreneurs, freelancers and unemployed with a medium or long work experience. The age of this target varies depending on country and is between 30- 45. The project will involve directly about 200 participants. Not directly/further: (2) ADULT Teachers/organisations teaching entrepreneurship. The project will: - collect and evaluate the exact state of target training needs;- identify the training requirements of the targeted end user group with respect to ICT-related topics;- collect the necessary material and develop innovative learning methodologies;– collect storytelling multimedia training content;– Produce Interactive multimedia training content infused with digital resources; - develop innovative learning methodologies for the efficient delivery of training to the targeted user group that deploy; technological innovations in the area of distance teaching; The basic methodology for the development of the proposed system constitutes of the following basic tasks:1. Requirements analysis report & System specifications;2. Educational material development;3. Framework design and development;4. Publication of ICT learning environment guidelines for trainers;5. Implementation in the target group and Dissemination;6. Validation; Expected Results: Innovative training approach for ADULT LEARNERS: low-skilled adult people, potential entrepreneurs, freelancers and unemployed implementation among all the partners' countries. In detail, the potential benefits of Let's Guide! is a participation in an innovative initiative that cultivates led change and economic development where it is most needed. Let's Guide! will contribute enormously to inspire all the community and increase entrepreneurs’ opportunities at European and national level. As a short term impact Let's Guide! network expects to extend the use of innovative e-learning methodology of education and training in member countries. As a long term impact we expect to motivate adults and increase the number of companies across EU.
Let´s Guide project, a strategic partnership between 6 EU countries is financed and supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Programme, aims at creating an innovative on-line training/practical guide in form of interactive learning scenarios simulations for entrepreneurial education based on real-life entrepreneurial stories (storytelling multimedia training content) to further improve the entrepreneurial skills of youth and adult people: unemployed, freelancers in the age of 30-45 with a medium or long work experience, university students, schools and labour offices. Let´s Guide will also offer a set of innovative learning resources (within the gamified environment) that further supports potential entrepreneurs to take the best decisions for their businesses regarding entrepreneurship actions. The Project supports the following objectives: - To develop basic and transversal entrepreneurial skills, using innovative approaches, - To increase sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among adults, - To promote and enhance internationalization intention throughout entrepreneurs, - to develop European education and training area by strategic use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), open - educational resources (OER) within training modules compendium available for wide group of receptors, - To enhance employability and new business creation among European labour market, - To endorse distance online learning and create the proper ground for equal opportunities in education and training. LET'S GUIDE! Skills for entrepreneurship and internationalization promotion among adult people The Let’s Guide project wishes to inspire the entire community and increase opportunities for entrepreneurs at European and national level. Moreover, it will offer a place where adult people, freelancers and unemployed may meet with a practical, new approach training prepared by a group of professionals from education and training organizations from different European countries. Objectives of Let's Guide! • to develop basic and transversal entrepreneurial skills, using innovative approaches, • to increase sense of initiative and entrepreneurship among adults, • to promote and enhance internationalization intention throughout entrepreneurs, • to develop European education and training area by strategic use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), open educational resources (OER) within training modules compendium available for a wide group of receptors, • to enhance employability and new business creation among European labour market, • to endorse distance online learning and create the proper ground for equal opportunities in education and training. Target group of the Let's Guide project activities: • adult people (30 - 45 years) with a medium or long work experience, • potential entrepreneurs, • freelancers and, • unemployed people. The Let’s Guide project focused on the target group of adult people (30 - 45 years) with a medium or long work experience, potential entrepreneurs, freelancers and unemployed people. The indirect target group consisted of local communities from which the participants were taken, local business and adults associations and entrepreneurial bodies, adult training providers that will add a training offer to their activities, policy makers and general economic public authorities that will have stakeholders able to deal with international market and so that will ask for more international support from Public Authorities, other EU networks with other countries not involved in the project, companies, youth training providers, organizations supporting disadvantage groups, local authorities, business associations, incubators, that will make possible to extend the range of involvement of indirect beneficiaries in other EU countries. Direct target group was constantly informed about the project activities from the first months of the project, especially after creating the project web page and project Facebook. Through the Facebook the target audience had the opportunity to read the Let’s Guide blog and be up to date with project news and activities. The complete learning experience that the LET’S GUIDE! training tool and its interactive material offer has achieved to contribute to the overall efforts of reversing the situation and turn this crisis into an opportunity for -experienced and new- entrepreneurs. The professionals that fall within the target audience and participated in the different phases of the project mentioned that through the learning process they regained their self-confidence and optimism. The development of new important skills and the empowerment of the existing ones help every professional grow, become more competitive and be better equipped to face the ongoing and upcoming challenges.