Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Strategic Partnerships for adult education
Project Identifier: 2020-1-DE02-KA204-007475
Project Title: “Creativity and innovation in adult education for development of entrepreneurial mind-set of citizens with fewer opportunities”
Topics: Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education
Results Platform Project Card: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2020-1-DE02-KA204-007475
Coordinating organisation and country: Youth Power Germany e.V., DE
Participating Countries: DE, RS, HR, SE
Funded by: the Nationale Agentur Bildung für Europa beim Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung, the German National Agency for the Erasmus+ (Adult education) programme
Project duration: 01/12/2020 – 31/03/2023
Project summary:
Background:
Motivation of partners in this project was to “equip” citizens 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 with special accent on creativity – competences that can be trained and developed through quality adult non-formal education. Self-employment and entrepreneurship has turned out to be a valuable option for careers’ building. With successful implementation of this project, partner organisations ensured that our beneficiaries, unemployed citizens, improved their entrepreneurial intelligence and mind-set with special accent being put on developing creativity for entrepreneurship, and we also empowered more adult educators for organising creative and innovative entrepreneurial learning activities within adult non-formal education, in line with the newest updates.
The general project objectives were the following:
- To empower unemployed citizens (with lower basic skills for entrepreneurship) 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 course.
- To 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 for adult educators’ training and useful toolkit with innovative approach to using adventure rooms methodology in adult education for entrepreneurship.
- To exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 4 European countries with different realities in regards to citizens’ self-employment and entrepreneurship
We implemented the following project activities:
M1 – TPM – The Kick-off meeting
M2 – TPM – The second meeting
M3 – TPM – The third meeting
M4 – TPM – The fourth meeting
M5 – TPM – The fifth meeting
M6 – TPM – The evaluation meeting
C1 – LTTA – Training of trainers for adult education for creativity in entrepreneurship of citizens with fewer opportunities
E1 – Multiplier event – Open conference “CreateEM” – RS
E2 – Multiplier event – Open conference “CreateEM” – SE
E3 – Multiplier event – Open conference “CreateEM” – HR
E4 – Multiplier event – Open conference “CreateEM” – DE
Results:
O1 – HANDBOOK: “Entrepreneurial Mind-set development within adult education”
O2 – GUIDEBOOK WITH CURRICULUM: “Using creative methods for development of innovation and creativity skills for entrepreneurship of adults with low basic skills”
O3 – E-LEARNING COURSE: “Entrepreneurial mind-set development for adults with low basic skills”
O4 – TOOLKIT: “Adventure room methodology in adult education for entrepreneurship”
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