Start-ups and entrepreneurs are the engine of economic growth in Europe. Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan aims to bring Europe back to growth stressing the need for more entrepreneurs, primarily through skills development and entrepreneurial education. Start-ups are the center of attention of the EC's Start-up Europe initiative supporting scale up of businesses. Entrepreneurship skills at all level of education and training are also one of the main objectives of the ET2020 strategy. According to “Rethinking Education”, in order to build “skills for the 21st century”, efforts are needed to develop skills such as entrepreneurship, which should be given particular attention, since enhance employability. Entrepreneurship is included in curricula of many EU countries but despite that, according to Final Report of Expert Group, there is still gap in knowledge and skills and the current needs of businesses are not taken into account. Recognising the importance of entrepreneurship, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has created the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp) which defines entrepreneurship as a transversal competence and offers a tool to be applied to all spheres of life, including to self-employed persons, and also to starting up ventures and offering (EntreComp). Understanding the significance of the framework, partnership wants to use it as a reference for achieving the aim of the VISE project, which is to strengthen entrepreneurship competences of start-uppers and wannabe entrepreneurs in the field of 3 most needed areas of entrepreneurship (according to EntreComp framework) together with taking up digital technologies to strengthen their business activities. The aims will be achieved through development of Virtual Integrated Start-ups Ecosystem consisting of: - skills’ assessment tool – multimedia based tests assessing 6 skills and resulting in individual entrepreneurial roadmap - e-course - consisting of training modules on corresponding 6 skills - Entrepreneurial Coach – mutual learning platform allowing for connecting and sharing and promotion of products and services Target groups: Primary target group are startuppers/wannabe entrepreneurs/startups Secondary groups: companies, networks of companies, VET providers and VET Trainers (organisations that provide VET learning or have access to start-ups and entrepreneurs (i.e. VET trainers; lifelong learning and VET associations; entrepreneurs associations, incubators; co-working spaces; local or regional institutions), as stakeholders. The impact of the VISE project is expected to be clearly visible on the participants, participating organisations, target groups and other relevant stakeholders. It will show in strengthened entrepreneurship competences in the field of 3 most needed areas of entrepreneurship of startuppers and wannabe entrepreneurs and through that better competences of these groups to run own businesses, in increased awareness about existence of EntreComp framework among participants, target groups and stakeholders and better use of digital technologies in startups and other companies. It will contribute to establishment of better educational and training paths, educational training offers and innovative approaches to teaching entrepreneurship in partner countries and further, in countries beyond the partnership. The project will also increase cooperation between non-formal education and business world and develop networks between startups and VET providers across Europe.
Understanding the significance of the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework, partnership wants to use it as a reference for achieving the aim of the VISE project, which is to strengthen entrepreneurship competences of VET providers and VET Trainers, start-uppers and wannabe entrepreneurs in the field of 3 most needed areas of entrepreneurship (according to EntreComp framework) together with taking up digital technologies to strengthen their business activities.
Start-ups and entrepreneurs are the engine of economic growth in Europe. Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan aims to bring Europe back to growth stressing the need for more entrepreneurs, primarily through skills development and entrepreneurial education. Start-ups are the center of attention of the EC's Start-up Europe initiative supporting scale up of businesses. Entrepreneurship skills at all level of education and training are also one of the main objectives of the ET2020 strategy. According to “Rethinking Education”, in order to build “skills for the 21st century”, efforts are needed to develop skills such as entrepreneurship, which should be given particular attention, since enhance employability. Entrepreneurship is included in curricula of many EU countries but despite that, according to Final Report of Expert Group, there is still gap in knowledge and skills and the current needs of businesses are not taken into account. The entrepreneurial courses offered to young adults who enrol at school, college or university do not deliver what is expected, because trainers in the area of entrepreneurial skills have no real understanding of the complete skill set required to be successful entrepreneur. This situation is compounded by the problem that academic establishment has little or no understanding of how entrepreneurs are created and what different skills and qualities entrepreneurs have to juggle and balance to do what it is they do. In effect, as Forbes showed (January 2015) “90% of start-ups fail”. Most start-uppers and entrepreneurs are high qualified individuals, experts in their field, but lacking of specific training in transversal entrepreneurial competences. Partners want to expose factors that contribute to the high % rate of failure and offer a solution of providing high-quality assessment and learning opportunity with automatic path allowing for learning entrepreneurial competences that are the most relevant in today’s turbulent business world. Recognising the importance of entrepreneurship, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has created the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp) which defines entrepreneurship as a transversal competence and offers a tool to be applied to all spheres of life, including to self-employed persons, and also to starting up ventures and offering (EntreComp).