The ability to act & think entrepreneurially is a crucial endowment in today’s knowledge-based society. Universities & enterprises take on important roles for fostering entrepreneurial competence development. To facilitate this, the EC has provided educators & trainers with a “reference methodology” that is based on a wide entrepreneurship definition (“creating value for others”) – the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp). However, an operational setting that allows to “capture" (wider) entrepreneurial competence profiles of learners has not been established yet. As a result, HEIs & businesses lack a coherent instrumental basis to A) assess individual entrepreneurial competences (students, employees) & B) accurately address specific competence development needs by education & training interventions as a response to the assessment results.The Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Competences Assessment Alliance (EICAA) is devoted to bridge this gap & will create such instrumental basis integrated into a new digital platform.EICAA resources will be developed for application in Higher Education & the business sector. These are:I. a revised EE methodology relying, challenging, & going beyond EntreCompII. a rubric system & assessment instrument (“Monitor”) operationalising I.III. an entrepreneurial teaching & training intervention repository rooted on I.IV. An OER digital platform which integrates II. & the III. & is able to: - generate automated results for the entrepreneurial competence check of learners - suggest learning / training interventions as response to specific competence needs V. a strategy to combine EICAA solutions into other initiatives in the field to allow for a holistic perspectiveEICAA will be realised as inter-disciplinary 3-year HEI-Business collaboration (4 HEI, 4 SME, 1 Research Instit., & Assoc. Partner) & is expected to unfold impact in 5 EU countries by reaching out to 15.000+ students, 30+ educators, & 150+ employees.
Main EICAA objectives were:- review & empirically validate EntreComp- operationalise EntreComp for entrepreneurship competence self-assessment- build platform that allows entrepreneurship competence self-assessment & development- connect analysis of self-assessment to recommendation of teaching modules- pilot platform large scale across EU- foster entrepreneurship education among learners of higher education & businesses- strengthen collaboration across business & university stakeholders
Entrepreneurship Competence has been identified to be a key competence for lifelong learning by the EC already in 2006. In 2016, the EC has published the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework to streamline what is understood by entrepreneurship. However, the framework had not been operationalised for competence (self)-assessment of learners. Our project EICAA delivered this missing piece by developing an innovative OER platform for entrepreneurship competence (self-)assessment and development.
<< Background >> Entrepreneurship Competence has been identified to be a key competence for lifelong learning by the EC already in 2006. In 2016, the EC has published the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework to streamline what is understood by entrepreneurship. However, the framework had not been operationalised for competence (self)-assessment of learners. Our project EICAA delivered this missing piece by developing an innovative OER platform for entrepreneurship competence (self-)assessment and development. << Objectives >> Main EICAA objectives were:- review & empirically validate EntreComp- operationalise EntreComp for entrepreneurship competence self-assessment- build platform that allows entrepreneurship competence self-assessment & development- connect analysis of self-assessment to recommendation of teaching modules- pilot platform large scale across EU- foster entrepreneurship education among learners of higher education & businesses- strengthen collaboration across business & university stakeholders << Implementation >> EICAA was implemented from 01.2021-12.2023. It achieved all its development targets, most prominently the implementation of the EICAA Digital Platform (https://platform.eicaa.eu/). The platform allows the entrepreneurship competence self-assessment of learners in group level. It offers a 1st level analysis of the self-assessment data & provides a variety of teaching modules to foster entrepreneurship competences (automatic suggestions). It was piloted among 2.000+ students & 200+ employees. << Results >> Please find all public results here: www.eicaa.eu/results/Main results:- EICAA Competence Framework (provides an empirical validation & evolution to the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework)- EICAA Digital Plaform for educators & trainers of entrepreneurship education.It hosts 2 instruments:1) EICAA Competence Monitor (self-assessment & analysis)2) EICAA Competence Development Kit (teaching resources)The platform was piloted among 2.000+ students & 200+ employees across the EU.