The context of the EntreCom4ALL project is based on the importance of entrepreneurship today, as well as the need for entrepreneurial training and development and digital learning. Our project is based on the latest European Commission ENTRECOMP framework, which describes entrepreneurship as a transversal competence, and is made up of 3 competence areas and 15 competences, and 8-level progression model and a comprehensive list of 442 learning outcomes. Therefore the EntreCom4ALL project intends to promote entrepreneurship as a key competence that can boost competitiveness and growth. It also aims at developing and analyzing an innovative pedagogy and assessment approach, based on Open Education Resources (OERs), to support the diverse individual learning pathways and to better assess all types of learning outcomes and future learning needs related to entrepreneurship competences in different learning scenarios identified by the Consortium's practices for the target groups addressed by the project: A) Young entrepreneurs B) Female entrepreneurs and C) teachers/trainers/intermediaries. The partnership has been put together based on their expertise in a full range of learning scenarios. Inova Consultancy in the UK has more than 20 years of experience running entrepreneurial training programmes for female entrepreneurs, UPM (ES) and Obuda University (HU) offer degrees and Master programmes in business and entrepreneurship as well as having a sound e-learning platform which offers an extensive selection of MOOCS in this topic. Materahub (IT) is an expert network specializing in running mentoring and coaching programmes to support entrepreneurs and manages successfully the EU programme for young entrepreneurs. CECE has access to a diverse range of teachers/trainers also offering engaging competitions in entrepreneurship. Finally UPM (ES) the contractor is an expert HE organisation in the management and publication of OERs. The main aim for this project is to promote open practices based on the collation of resources based on a pedagogically-rich context, increasing the number of OERs users and fostering the effectiveness of OER for entrepreneurial educational purposes. The EntreCom4ALL main objectives are: • development of an innovative method for evaluating individual users learning needs (from diverse learning communities) taking into account their own learning style. The platform will aim to present a variety of customised training paths to support the development of entrepreneurship skills • provide effective OERs (Online Educational Resources) available in different open repositories as well as resources found via online Social Networks (OSN) filtered by the partner’s languages. The online peer to peer communities will be the place where all users will evaluate the Open Education Resources, share info and recommendations about how to use, customise and finally re-use the contents. A previous assessment carried out for the aim of this project, showed that the programming code could have the capacity of gathering more than 20,000 OERs and 25,000 tweets bi-weekly in the Entrepreneurship zone. In addition, it is envisaged that more than 3,000 topics could be recommended to the user based on their previous searches, which can provide an extremely rich experience to the learner. In order to comprise the most relevant OERs for teaching and learning, and to assure scalability and transferability to a wide range of target groups the following results are planned: 1. a skills assessment framework will be produced based on a questionnaire which will identify the most relevant ENTRECOMP skills applicable to the different target groups and learning scenarios put forward by the consortium (IO1 Development of EntreCom4ALL Skill Assessment framework) 2. As a consequence of this first output, the project will develop and implement a multilingual social and semantic software Web Portal where the individual learning needs of users meet the most effective digitized materials offered freely selected. (IO2 Adaptive Semantic and Social Open Education web portal for Entrepreneurship learning Scenarios (EntreComp4ALL model) 3. A significant number of at least 1,000 start ups and pre-start ups from the target groups will validate the effectiveness and impact of the EntreCom4ALL model Web Portal in the learning scenarios established previously in each country (IO3 Piloting and validation of EntreCom4ALL model). Finally, EntreCom4ALL brings an innovative mix of open e-learning resources and as well established entrepreneurial competence framework which acts as a knowledge multiplier and enables entrepreneurs to fully utilize the potential of digital technologies.
The context of the project is based on the importance of current entrepreneurship, as well as the need for training and development of digital entrepreneurship skills. The entrepreneurship scenario in Europe is subject to dynamic changes as a result of social developments, advances in the field of ICT technologies and how they have influenced our ways of communicating and doing business. For entrepreneurs, this means that they must constantly expand their skills and their knowledge portfolio. EU has been promoting entrepreneurship as a key competence that can boost competitiveness and growth. On the other hand, today, many institutions and individuals around the world share their digital learning resources through the Internet in an open and free way, such as Open Educational Resources (OER). OERs are a relatively new phenomenon that can be seen as part of a greater trend towards openness in education and the democratization of access. The global program aims to provide open access to high-quality educational resources on a global scale in many languages. But OERs must not only be collected and stored, but must also be made useful and visible, a process that requires substantial human work, even if automation can help in the process. This framework combines the use and development of different technologies and products and is intended to manage different entrepreneurship needs in various learning scenarios, for different stakeholders based on the EntreComp framework, launched by the European Commission, to build a bridge between the worlds of education and work, contributing to a better understanding and promotion of business competition in Europe. - Goals: • Establish an innovative method to assess the learning needs of individual users of different learning communities based on their own learning style with personalized training and information itineraries to support the development of the entrepreneurial skills identified, developing a framework of competency assessment, adapting the European standard the "Entrepreneurship Competence Framework" (EntreComp) to target groups such as women entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship trainers and young entrepreneurs. • Recommend OER (open educational resources) available in different open repositories, as well as in social networks filtered by the partners' languages through the EntreCom4ALL platform. The platform is multilingual in English, Spanish, Italian and Hungarian, and offers the creation of communities for each of the target groups, to evaluate the OER, access to statistics ... It also allows to share information and opinions on how to reuse resources, with initially 1,500 cataloged resources and access to thousands of resources, users and hashtags from Twitter in relation to entrepreneurship, duly filtered by algorithms designed with the Social Network Analysis technique. - Participants: Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica deMadrid, UPM) is the project coordinator and the largest and oldest technical university in Spain. Inova Consulting, consultant on entrepreneurship and gender issues. Spanish Confederation of Teaching Centers (CECE) Consorzio Materahub Industrie Culturali e Creative, is an aggregate of people and businesses Obúda UNiversity, dynamic institution of higher education in Budapest. - Impact The results of the project have had, at its completion, a relevant impact through the activity of the participating organizations themselves, in European degree and master courses, networks of young entrepreneurs, competitions of entrepreneurs in their training stage, training events aimed at women entrepreneurs, and finally in trainers and teachers at different levels of formal and informal education. - Long term benefits: One of the strengths that help the sustainability of the project is that it is based on the European standard of the EntreComp competence framework. It is an opportunity for projects and initiatives that are currently proliferating around this framework. From the self-assessments provided by the EntreCom4ALL platform, the apprentice can become aware of their skills and motivate them and take full advantage of all the resources and features offered to improve their skills. The open educational resources that are registered as part of the project platform also contribute to the sustainability of the project, as they are external resources that will be available and accessible beyond the life of the project. This means that users can continue to use and enjoy the OER entrepreneurs guided by the platform.