The proposed project refers to the importance of entrepreneurship education in coherence with the EU key policies started in 2003 through the “European Green Paper on Entrepreneurship” and culminated in 2016 with the “Entrepreneurship Competence Framework” (EntreComp) which tries to reach a shared model connecting the world of education and the labour market. NEEDS: The project responds to the common need to develop new methodologies for facilitators and educators training because all educational programmes are addressed to young people neglecting the role of educator. Furthermore, the project intends to extend transnationally the previous experience “Giovani&Futuro Comune” lead by the Applicant Goodwill and match the results with the partership expertise through cross fertilisation, exchange of good management and best practices. OBJECTIVES - To develop a new teaching methodology through the transnational backgroung which can be experience to trainers/educators and mentors as well as the organisations that deal with the young entrepreneurship; - To set up a transnational network of trainers, educators and mentors who are involved on common goods based on methodologies and teaching procedures which can be useful to the knowledge exchange among professionals and experts, fostering the dissemination of entrepreneural projects. TOPICS: The partnership is building a new opportunity for continuous professional development of actors that are actively involved in processes of: - supporting young people to understand how entrepreneurship works; - activating sense of initiative related to the recovery of commons at community level; - connecting initiatives with other actors of a community to make their educational and professional activity able to generate an impact at community level. PROJECT TEAM: The partnership is composed by 6 partners and it has been created to reach the two objectives of the project: to create an integrated and European training based on different experiences on self-employment and entrepreneurship with a focus on urban regeneration and commons valorisation, to build a tech platform able to connect all trainers/facilitators of this topic allowing them to share best projects, knowledge and good practices, methodologies and tools thorough a process of peer learning and CPD. APPROACH: To support and stimulate this process, the partnership will develop and open online environment where target groups could be involved, learn from peers, develop their own approach to transfer their knowledge to young people, build European cooperation educative projects, share best practices and continue the process of training at distance. RESULT: The main result will be a Social Learning open source web based platform able to host a community of users. The platform will connect everyone involved in the project allowing them to work together during and after the entire project from an initially brainstorming until the development of the pilot action, supporting the: delivering of training program; networking between facilitators, mentors, trainers, e-learning, collection and sharing of best practices. The Social Learning Platform will play a fundamental role inside the project, offering to final users, tools to share works and ideas, create groups with different levels of participation, create macro and micro areas of interests, promote activities and fostering a spontaneous aggregation in groups. Project Partners: - GOODWILL, Italy - CONSORZIO MATERAHUB INDUSTRIE CULTURALI E CREATIVE, Italy - POWER NET CONSULTING S.R.L., Romania - CONSEJERÍA DE ECONOMÍA E INFRAESTRUCTURAS JUNTA DE EXTREMADURA, Spain - VALORIZA-TE, COOPERATIVA, CRL, Portugal - GEMEENTE 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands
The Entercom project focused on the importance of the entrepreneurship education in coherence with the EU key policies started in 2003 through the “European Green Paper on Entrepreneurship” and extended in 2016 to the “Entrepreneurship Competence Framework” which tries to reach a shared model connecting the world of education and the labour market. Starting from the analysis of the different contexts within the project partnership, the project responded to the common need to develop new training methodologies for facilitators since the majority of the educational programs are addressed to young people neglecting the role of educator. The project achieved the following objectives: - to develop a new teaching methodology through the transnational background which can be experience to trainers/educators and mentors as well as the organizations that deal with the young entrepreneurship; - to set up a transnational network of trainers, educators and mentors who are involved on common goods based on methodologies and teaching procedures which can be useful to the knowledge exchange among professionals and experts, fostering the dissemination of entrepreneurial projects.The partnership consisted of five partners from four European countries and based on different skills and expertise on entrepreneurship, vocational and educational training, business competitiveness and innovation, creative industries: - Goodwill, Italy - Consorzio Materahub industrie culturali e creative, Italy - Consejería de economía e infraestructuras, Junta de Extremadura, Spain - Inova +, Portugal - Gemeente 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.The expected results have been achieved through five Intellectual Outputs and a transnational pilot training week:- A Competence Framework to list the facilitator’s key competences who deals with entrepreneurial projects connected to the urban regeneration and the valorization of commons goods. - A Training package on education aimed at identifying the methodologies and tools useful to support facilitators in mentoring activities addressed to young people.- A Social Learning Platform addressed to facilitators involved in entrepreneurship education, willing to approach this topic focusing on exploitation of common goods and urban regeneration. - A Handbook for facilitators providing information related to the training modules and a user’s manual of the platform. - Policy consisting of recommendations in relation to urban regeneration, commons and social entrepreneurship education aimed at making the project methodology transferable in other European contexts and by other actors. The project ENTERCOM had an important impact in the EU dialogue and debate around the application in real cases and initiatives of the EntreComp Framework by the European Commission. For the first time, a project was focusing on the framework application in the social enterprise wide sector, talking about urban regeneration projects and commons.