The study “Promoting and Supporting Migrant Entrepreneurship” (European Commission, 2016), has demonstrated that measures for addressing these challenges should be approached holistically: by providing migrants educational and training opportunities, regulatory advice, social capital, and facilitated access to business funding and working spaces. However, efforts to address these challenges in a holistic approach by local organisations are often described as too resource-intensive and thus do not have a long-term impact. To address these challenges the project will develop a training curriculum (IO3) and an e-course (IO4) specifically designed to tackle the educational and training needs of migrants by equipping adult education professionals, trainers and professionals working migrants with the tools needed for engaging migrants in entrepreneurial initiatives as well as increasing their participation in such activities. The curriculum will increase the capacity of professionals in designing outreach activities to support entrepreneurial activities created by migrants and therefore increase the participation of migrants in the socio-economic life and involvement of migrants in educational programmes (IO2, IO6). The curriculum will be structured on the findings of a protocol which will seek to evaluate current practices on migrant entrepreneurship in order to develop an entrepreneurship programme for professionals working with migrants (IO1). The project will be supported with the in-service training which will equip the target groups with the skills need to promote entrepreneurship among migrants and engage migrants in educational initiatives and training opportunities on entrepreneurship (IO6). This project include both online and face to face interactions which will be structured in way to facilitate mutual learning, the exchange of experiences and practices, co-operation, resource sharing and referral to complementary support offers and the development of new synergies. The project will use an open digital badge scheme to award the competences acquired by professionals who have undertaken the e-course. The project will put in place an on-going support system which will enable the improvement of emerging entrepreneurial ideas through the interaction of experts and other stakeholders and at the same time leverage networks to provide mentoring opportunities and facilitate access to funding. The objectives of the project are: - Increase capacity of adult education professionals, trainers and professionals working migrants (target groups) with the tools needed for engaging migrants in entrepreneurship; - Enhance knowledge of the target groups to design outreach activities to support entrepreneurial activities created by migrants; - Participating migrant entrepreneurs have better conditions to start a business when they have a better knowledge about entrepreneurship. - Enhance collaboration and the promotion of synergies between the target groups and other stakeholders for the promotion of migrant entrepreneurship; - Support the efforts of local and EU organisations in applying a holistic approach in supporting migrants entrepreneurs through the development of OER tools. Impact and long-term benefits: The project deliverables will support the beneficiaries and target groups of the project in activities related to the integration of migrants in the society through schemes supporting entrepreneurship in a holistic approach. The deliverables will also assist the future efforts of different European countries in developing educational material to address the training and educational needs of migrants. The target groups are adult educators, trainers and professionals working with migrants while the beneficiaries are migrants, third country nationals and society as a whole. Participants: - at least 50 (10 per country) adult educators, trainers and professionals working with migrants will participate in the first e-course (first phase) - at least 100 adult educators, trainers and professionals working with migrants, entrepreneurs, migrants, researchers (25 per event) will attend the dissemination seminars in the partner countries - at least 20 adult educators, trainers and professionals working with migrants will participate in the learning activity - at least 80 adult educators, trainers and professionals working with migrants, entrepreneurs, researchers will attend the final conference Results: - Increased capacity of adult education professionals, trainers and professionals working migrants (target groups) with the tools needed for engaging migrants in entrepreneurship; - Strengthened knowledge of the target groups to design outreach activities to support entrepreneurial activities created by migrants - Strengthened collaboration among professionals working with migrants at a local and EU level.
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