Our goals were twofold. We wanted to equip project participants, native and migrant residents of Poland, Czechia and Slovakia, with knowledge and skills in business development. Moreover, we wanted to put our knowledge, and the combination of expertise and experience, different among consortium members, into good use and to create high-quality training materials for adult educators who want to boost entrepreneurial spirit among people willing to set up their own businesses. The materials come together with guidelines which we hope will help educators introduce the topic to such mixed groups. We gathered and prepared the guidelines on the basis of our own experience gained in this project. The guidelines and materials will be disseminated free of charge and may help trainers all around Europe work with groups of people coming from different countries to learn as much as possible about running and promoting their business activities and thus empowering them, especially now in the complex economic situation.
We decided to create the project and implement it because we saw that during the pandemic of Covid 19, some people started to think that they may become more independent, work from home and organize their working life within their own businesses. We saw CASE as an excellent organisation to address this need as the foundation has both economic knowledge and experience in providing training. Due to the fact that CASE already had earlier experience in translating financial knowledge into training for vulnerable groups e.g. young people, seniors and immigrants, we decided to include immigrants in our target group. In order to best address the needs of the participants, in this project we invited our Partners, InBaze from Czechia and Mereena from Slovakia, organisations with experience working with immigrants and people in need. We saw a perfect chance to provide knowledge within the project and also to create high-quality materials for trainers who will work with interculturally differentiated groups on topics related to starting a business.