Quite often, both salaries of the employed citizens, as well as the pensions for the retired seniors, where exist - are not fully sufficient for the high costs of life in those “older” ages when their youngsters have left households to pursue own career and life in separate households of their own. More and more seniors and adults (with fewer opportunities), thus, are looking forward to another way of regular money incoming into their households and are positive towards entrepreneurship opportunities, as they see self-employment as a valuable and appreciated option. Seniors and adults with fewer opportunities are beneficiaries of our activities and their needs are directly influencing our needs, needs of partner organisations. Thus, after doing a short survey among beneficiaries, all partners agreed that they need to improve their adult education NFE activities with quality Entrepreneurial Learning (EL) in line with the new era entrepreneurship concepts, in order to provide quality, attractive and effective activities for personal and professional development of seniors and adults with fewer opportunities in their communities. Motivation of partners in this project is to “equip” seniors and adults with fewer opportunities with set of skills needed to work on personal development in fields of entrepreneurial intelligence and creating (self-)employment opportunities proactively in today’s reality of employment uncertainty and the world of extinction of many known jobs and occupation now and even more in the future. That new needed capacity is entrepreneurial intelligence - competence that can be trained and developed by gaining different skills, knowledge, attitudes through quality adult non-formal education. This project builds up on our previous experience with the aspect of entrepreneurial intelligence, mind-set and creativity competences, as a new level of adult learning for self-employment and entrepreneurship. Project objectives: • Empower seniors and adults with fewer opportunities in entrepreneurial intelligence and mind-set development (including intrapersonal and interpersonal social-emotional and creativity competences), through development of inspiring, innovative and up-to-date handbook and e-learning courses. • Empower our adult educators and improve knowledge management of adult education institutions and organisations in theory and practice for building competences of adult educators in entrepreneurial mind-set and creativity in entrepreneurship development of citizens, through training course, innovative Guidebook with curriculum and e-learning course for adult educators’ training. • Exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 5 European countries with different realities in regards to citizens’ self-employment and entrepreneurship. We expect following direct participants / beneficiaries of our project: - 12 staff / project managers and assistants; - 18 teachers/trainers/researchers and technicians working on the intellectual outputs; - 30 multipliers adult educators that will test the outputs with at least 120 citizens (with fewer opportunities) on local level - 12 adult educators, participants at the LTTA, multipliers to additional 40 adult education providers empowered and encouraged to use our intellectual outputs in their work; - 205 participants of the multiplier events. Project activities: A1 Project Management M1 Kick-off meeting O1 Handbook on Entrepreneurial learning, Intelligence and mind-set development for adults M2 Second meeting O2 Guidebook with Curriculum: Empowering adult educators for Entrepreneurial learning, Intelligence and mind-set development among seniors and adults with fewer opportunities M3 Third meeting O3 E-learning course for educators: Entrepreneurial learning, Intelligence and mind-set development education for seniors and adults with fewer opportunities O4 E-learning course for beneficiaries: IntRApersonal aspect of Entrepreneurial mind-set development O5 E-learning course for beneficiaries: Leadership, Teamwork and other intERpersonal skills within Entrepreneurial mind-set development C1 LTTA Training of trainers E1, E2, E3, E4, E5 – Open conferences in RS, HR, SE, DE, NL M4 – Evaluation meeting Project will directly impact organisational capacities to work on providing quality entrepreneurship education to mainly seniors and adults with fewer opportunities. We expect the positive and long-lasting effects on partner organisations who will increase their capacity and competences for providing quality adult education activities for entrepreneurial learning based on innovative approach. With all our intellectual outputs, we will influence the change and improvement of existing entrepreneurship adult NFE methodologies and programmes, at first among partner organisations of the project, and later among partner of ours and their wider network of collaborators.
To empower seniors and adults with fewer opportunities in entrepreneurial intelligence and mind-set development (including intrapersonal and interpersonal social-emotional and creativity competences), through development of inspiring, innovative and up-to-date handbook and e-learning courses. • Empower our adult educators and improve knowledge management of adult education institutions and organisations in theory and practice for building competences of adult educators in entrepreneurial mind-set and creativity in entrepreneurship development of citizens, through training courses, innovative Guidebook with curriculum and e-learning courses for adult educators’ training. • Exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 5 European countries with different realities in regards to citizens’ self-employment and entrepreneurship. The project proves to be needed/innovative in our communities, also thanks to the transnational contribution of partners from different European countries with their different approaches on motivating target groups. All partners have good practices to showcase and we will learn from each other but also disseminate the learned outcomes to others back home and promote the different practices of entrepreneurship education in adult learning programmes.
The motivation for this project was to equip seniors and adults with fewer opportunities with a set of skills needed for personal development in the areas of entrepreneurial intelligence and creating (self-)employment opportunities, proactively in today's reality of employment insecurity and the world of extinction of many familiar jobs and occupations now and even more so in the future. This new needed capacity was entrepreneurial intelligence - a competence trained and developed through the acquisition of various skills, knowledge and attitudes through quality non-formal adult education. After analysing the results, we identified the following needs and problems in our communities: - the difficulty to find quality permanent employment for adults and seniors with fewer opportunities. - the difficulty to open new businesses as most of the new businesses started in our communities are not innovative and therefore do not generate sufficient profit or even close quite soon. - not enough opportunities for our beneficiaries to develop their entrepreneurial intelligence and thus their personal, social and cognitive skills, especially those of innovation and creativity in entrepreneurship. - inadequate and inaccessible educational opportunities, either online or offline, for developing entrepreneurial intelligence and related creativity in entrepreneurship. - only 7 out of 42 adult educators (17%) have previous experience with enterprises and use this experience and expertise in their non-formal adult education for employability and entrepreneurship of adults (and seniors) with fewer opportunities. - only 4 out of 42 (9%) adult educators working with beneficiaries in NF adult education have received any kind of training on the intrapersonal aspect of entrepreneurial intelligence and feel confident in organising educational activities on this topic. With this project, our beneficiaries were able to improve their entrepreneurial intelligence and attitude. We also empowered more adult educators to organise innovative and up-to-date entrepreneurial learning activities within non-formal adult education.