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Digital entrepreneurship education for adults with different abilities

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-KA204-007719
Project Title: “Digital entrepreneurship education for adults with different abilities”
Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Disabilities – special needs
Results Platform Project Card: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2020-1-DE02-KA204-007719
Coordinating organisation and country: Outreach Hannover e.V., DE
Participating Countries: DE, RS, HR, IT, 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 – 31/10/2022

Project summary:

Lately, we have been witnessing high unemployment rates, especially for adults with disabilities who have difficulties in getting jobs and gathering relevant experience for their (future) careers. Self-employment and entrepreneurship has turned out to be a valuable option for careers’ building. However, with the development of the IT sector, classic “offline” enterprises do not bring enough clients and profit and, thus, do not survive for long time. We believe that self-employment in digital entrepreneurship can reduce unemployment of adults with disabilities.

With this project, we are answering to the needs defined by institutions, as well as the needs of our own educators and beneficiaries. We are promoting digital entrepreneurship of adults with disabilities and quality empowerment of our adult educators to be able to organise quality (digital) entrepreneurship education of our beneficiaries. We are producing intellectual outputs that will serve as a quality knowledge management material for education of current and future adult educators for quality empowerment and mentoring of beneficiaries for digital entrepreneurship, as well as an online (e-learning) course for direct education of adults for digital entrepreneurship start-ups.

Project objectives were:

  • Empower unemployed adults with disabilities for digital entrepreneurship start-up through development of inspiring, innovative and up-to-date handbook, as well as the online course.
  • Empower our adult educators and improve knowledge management of our organisations in theory and practice for building competences of educators in digital entrepreneurship for adults with disabilities, through LTTA and innovative curriculum for educators’ training and useful toolkit with workshops for beneficiaries.
  • Exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 5 European countries with different realities in regards to employment and digital entrepreneurship.

Project activities were:

A1 – Project Management

M1 – Kick-off meeting

O1 – Handbook “Exploring Digital Entrepreneurship for adults with different abilities”

M2 – Second meeting

O2 – Curriculum “Empowering adult educators to encourage digital entrepreneurship start-ups among adults with different abilities”

O3 – Toolkit “Mentoring and supporting adults with different abilities for digital entrepreneurship start-up”

M3 – Third meeting

O4 – E-learning course “Digital entrepreneurship start-up course for adults with different abilities”

C1 – LTTA Training of trainers

E1, E2, E3, E4, E5 – Open conferences in SE, HR, RS, IT, DE

M4 – Evaluation meeting

With this project implementation, the organisations got equipped with new educational approaches and tools that have a potential to be more effective when working with adults with disabilities and other fewer opportunities. The tools are designed to address the specific circumstances and learning needs of the target group the partner organisations are working with; and have been piloted with a test group already during the project implementation. In addition, the online educational tool has the potential to reach beneficiaries who are otherwise not involved in non-formal education activities. Thus, the project enables the organisations to impact a larger number of adults with different abilities and provides them with arsenal to achieve more with the work they are doing.

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