The aim was to re-examine the fundamental ethical and territorial dimensions of supporting SSE entrepreneurs, and to create relevant methodologies and tools for the targeted learners: trainers and coaches. ELDESS has enabled KEJAL and ESWIP to take a step back from our respective practices, enriching our approaches by opening up exchanges to the structures in our networks through webinar-workshops. We wanted to stimulate reflection on these important themes linked to ecology and solidarity in entrepreneurship. The intermediate objectives were 1) to create teaching aids and tutorials, which would be disseminated by running 3 webinars aimed at our networks of local, regional and European professionals. 2) Enhance the CREOPSS+ toolbox developed under a previous Erasmus+ project. Apart from the technical problem of the multilingual database, we achieved all our objectives and were surprised by the power of intercultural encounters between professionals from the same sector of activity: our experiences, examples and feelings shared thanks to the friendship that was born enabled us to go beyond the pedagogical framework by taking a holistic approach to our professions.
Working in the field of adult training and entrepreneurship in the SSE, one of the pillars of the KEJAL training centre and educational laboratory is to disseminate the CREOPSSe pedagogy wherever it is implemented. ERASMUS+ is an opportunity to disseminate methods and tools on a European scale, to question them and to develop them further. For this ELDESS project, KEJAL has focused on just 2 of the 6 dimensions proposed: Ethics and Territory. KEJAL is a grouping of around thirty French partners; the international scale was targeted to encourage a critical look at our approaches and tools and to enrich us with other European entrepreneurial cultures. ACAWM then put KEJAL in touch with ESWIP, whose field of action is similar: support for entrepreneurs in the SSE sector through the Polish OWES system. For ESWIP, ELDESS was an opportunity to discover new tools to use when working with the project leaders we support, particularly those relating to ethics, which unfortunately was a rather neglected subject in our approach. We questioned our approach to territorial studies and their importance in project design.