TITLE: Impact on Youth (IOY) TYPOLOGY: Strategic partnership for the exchange of Good practices and Innovation DURATION: 24 months PARTNERS: 4 partner organisations (Spain, Ireland, Poland and Portugal) TARGET GROUPS / BENEFICIARIES: · Educators in the field of formal and non-formal education (youth workers, counselors, teachers, social workers, trainers, etc.) · Young people between 15 and 20 years old from different educational groups (high school students, VET, university students, members of youth organizations and NEET youth. · Organizations of the youth sector, public and private educational centers, insertion entities, and everything interested in promoting entrepreneurship among young people. OBJECTIVE: The project aims to give answer to the need for innovative approaches for the development and recognition of entrepreneurial skills. MAIN ACTIVITIES: A. [INTELLECTUAL PRODUCTS] O1 - IMPACT entrepreneurial skills measurement tool (www.impact-test.eu). The IMPACT tool, based on the European EntreComp skills framework, will be set by 15 individual tests to measure entrepreneurial skills. The IMPACT toll will make it possible to measure separately the level of acquisition of each of the entrepreneurial skills in the indicated above framework. Both, the users and the educators will be able to obtain realistic knowledge about their competences and monitor their progress. The IMPACT competency measurement Tool was originally created within the framework of the eponymous project (which inspired this proposal). Currently, the tool incorporates measurement tests of three of the fifteen entrepreneurship competencies collected in EntreComp. Through this proposal, the aim is to conclude the work begun previously incorporating the remaining twelve competences. Breakdown of skills: Area: Ideas and opportunities 1. Creativity 2. Sustainable and ethical thinking, 3. Vision 4. Valuing ideas Area: In action 5. Management and planning 6. Teamwork, 7. Work as a team 8. Learn from experience Area: Resources 9. Self awareness and effectiveness 10. Financial and economic knowledge 11. Know how to mobilize others 12. Know how to mobilize resources The project already starts with the basis of having developed the following tests: 1) Motivation and perseverance (Area: Resources), 2) Initiative (Area: In Action) 3) Recognize opportunities (Area: Ideas and opportunities) The innovative nature of the IMPACT Tool with respect to the existing ones is the approach based on the EntreComp document. It enables analysis of each competence individually, instead of valuing the capacity for entrepreneurship as a whole (without breaking down by competence), as the existing tools do. This approach allows a greater versatility for educators, since they can identify the specific learning needs of their learners and intervene on them. IMPACT The project aims to ensure an impact throughout the life of the project that is sustainable upon completion. Our primary audience are educators (youth workers, teachers, and social workers) such as non-formal education organizations and formal education centers. [AT LOCAL / REGIONAL LEVEL] Among others we hope to achieve the following impact: - Improvement of entrepreneurial skills and, therefore, of employability of young people who have participated in educational activities for the development of entrepreneurial skills during the piloting of the IMPACT tool in the different communities. After the completion of the project, this impact will continue as the member entities of the Consortium and other entities at the local / regional level have committed to a further dissemination of the tool and its incorporation into the didactic tools they already are using. [AT NATIONAL / EUROPEAN LEVEL]: - Improvement of the procedures for the measurement of entrepreneurial skills thanks to the availability of the IMPACT Tool for measuring entrepreneurial skills, available in English and in the other official languages of the consortium, which can be used directly by any entity working in the scope of development of skills for entrepreneurship. DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS A Plan for the dissemination and exploitation of results has been planned to give visibility to the intellectual products developed, as well as a Sustainability Plan to guarantees an impact once the project has concluded. All tangible results of the project will be licensed under Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial Share Alike.
El proyecto aspiraba a dar respuesta a la necesidad de desarrollar enfoques innovadores para el desarrollo y reconocimiento de las competencias emprendedoras. Creando el set de 15 test, uno por cada competencia, quisimos facilitar: Jóvenes (15+) y adultos - Poder medir el alcance de sus competencias emprendedoras - Recibir una retroalimentación personalizada y con concejos para la continuidad de su proceso de aprendizaje - Poder ver su propio progreso en un marco de tiempo Educadores (trabajadores juveniles, formadores, profesores) - Poder medir el nivel de las competencias emprendedoras de sus usuarios - Poder ver el alcance real de sus actividades relacionadas con el desarrollo de competencias emprendedoras - Poder ver el progreso de sus usuarios - Poder ofrecerles una retroalimentación personalizada y una orientación a futuro - Poder comparar diferentes grupos entre sí Gracias a estos resultados los educadores podrían adaptar sus actividades educativas a las necesidades reales de sus usuarios. Al mismo tiempo, el proyecto buscaba reforzar vínculos entre el ámbito de la juventud y el mercado de trabajo y potenciar el papel de los trabajadores y las organizaciones juveniles como estructuras de apoyo para los jóvenes.
El proyecto IMPACT on YOUTH estaba motivado por dar continuidad al proyecto anterior IMPACT y así cumplir con el objetivo originario de deserrollar una herramienta de medición de las competencias emprendedoras para el uso de los educadores y de los individuos mismos. Cuando empezamos la primera fase el marco de competencias para el emprendimiento, el EntreComp estaba recién creado. Como muchos, vimos el valor del dicho marco y sus múltiples usos que se podría dar, tanto desde la educación formal como no formal. Al mismo tiempo nos hicimos las siguientes preguntas: - cómo uno podría saber la amplitud en la que tenía desarrolladas las competencias? - cómo un educador podía saber si las actividades educativas cuyo objetivo es desarrollar la competencias emprendedoras de los jóvenes, relamente lo hacen y hasta qué punto? - cómo puede un individúo o un educador saber el alcance del aprendizaje del mismo o de sus usuarios (jóvenes, alumnos, estudiantes o participantes). ¿Cúal ha sido el progreso desde que se inició el aprendizaje hasta el final del mismo? La respuesta: crear un test que pudiese medir competencias emprendedoras mencionadas en el EntreComp.