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Project-IPEC

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...s aim to ‘exemplar’ project that will act as a ‘demonstrator’ project for future VET products utilising gamification. The project will involve 200 participants from the target group: new business start-ups and small enterprises trading for less than three years and set up by Generation Y individuals. They will implement the micro-lite Project Management methodology in their business. They will be ...
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Community of Responsible Recreational Initiatives in Europe

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...a growing trend & a raising consumer awareness for sustainable and responsible tourism. The CORRIE project aims to: • Create awareness on the topic of responsible tourism, an understanding of the business opportunities it brings and how to capitalise on it individually or as a group of small entrepreneurs together. In this way the project raises entrepreneurial skills and ‘responsible’ mind-sets a ...
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Support for small and medium sized enterprises engaging in apprenticeships: Regional Apprenticeship Alliances for SMEs

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...eship Alliances involving 80+ intermediaries and wider stakeholders, including VET providers.2. Produce and disseminate information resources, a teaching course, and practical tools which make the “business case” for SMEs to become involved in apprenticeships and provide step by step guides.The unique structure of RAISE enables the partnership to leverage access to intermediary organizations and S ...
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I-STEP

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

... to enhance international entrepreneurial skills and attitude of teachers and students in VET by creating an international dimension to entrepreneurship programmes and strengthening the local and (EU business) network. This offers a solution to EU wide unemployment by enabling young people to create their own employment and become successful entrepreneurs that look beyond country borders. It also ...
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Smart Data, Smart Regions

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The volume of data that governments, businesses and organizations manage has grown exponentially and, if turned into actionable, “smart” data, presents vast opportunities to drive productivity, innovation and competitiveness in Europe. The EC 2014 Big Data Strategy recognises that data-intensive sectors of the economy are growing by 40% per year. However, even while the UK, Germany, Ireland and N ...
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SKILLS+ - Soft skills development programme for micro-companies in ICT sector

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

...employees. It's hard to overemphasize their importance to the sector and economy in general, but at the same time there is much to be done to improve competitiveness and sustainability of these micro-businesses. While most of them possess strong technical or so-called hard skills, the soft skills are much less developed. Research shows that in ICT micro-companies internal communication of personne ...
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Training community actors to foster entrepreneurship education

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

The initiative wants to transfer and adapt a model of promotion of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education based on the key concept that education, and in this case entrepreneurship education, happens everywhere, particularly in those environments in which children and young people receives first education (family, school, local community). The original project was developed in Extremadura ...
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Restart Entrepreneurship

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

Setting up a business is increasingly easy but keeping it going is much tougher: 50% of enterprises don’t survive the first 5 years and bankruptcies account for 15% of business closures. The recent financial crisis caused a peak in business failure in Ireland, Netherlands, Spain and Bulgaria. Since recognising the need to enable honest, failed entrepreneurs to start over in business in the Small ...
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Streetfood: Opportunities for Regions

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The street food sector is growing fast: NCASS registered 700 new street food businesses last year alone and our partners witness rapidly growing sectors with rising demand for support from young entrepreneurs. Yet, for all its dynamism, the sector is also becoming more crowded and ambitious young entrepreneurs are looking upwards and outwards for further growth opportunities. Viable paths to exp ...
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Food Incubators Transforming Regions

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...ucers to establish, the lack of access to food grade workspace is a serious and inhibiting barrier to entry (40% of emerging food producers found the lack of production space an inhibiting factor to business growth and of concern in terms of business effectiveness). Artisan food producers struggle to support the capital requirements of setting up a production facility (investing in a food produc ...
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Development of entrepreneurship, creativity and teamwork skills for students and teachers in VET

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

...depression, lack of economic independence, psychological, social and economic problems.As finding employment is a hard job for all, entrepreneurship gains more and more importance. Embarking on a new business venture can be the only way for some people to take their fate into their own hands and create a job for themselves. Many people however, do not posses the necessary entrepreneurial drive and ...
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EEN Northern Netherlands: enhancing the innovation capacity of SME's (EEN Northern NL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

In addition to the innovation-related services offered by EEN Northern Netherlands, this H2020 project will provide in-depth services enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEs. Due to several reasons (f.e. a lack of offers, unaffordable market prices or poor quality), consulting service offers enhancing the innovation management capacity of companies are not readily available to SMEs in many ...
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Entrepreneurship in VET: Exploring the European Experience

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2016,

...epression, lack of economic independence, psychological, social and economic problems. As finding employment is a hard job for all, entrepreneurship gains more and more importance. Embarking on a new business venture can be the only way for some people to take their fate into their own hands and create a job for themselves. Many people however, do not posses the necessary entrepreneurial drive and ...
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Transfer Of Knowledge - Transfer Of Human Capital (TOK-TOC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...ce to the next generation in enterprise succession is achieved.The overall aim of the project is to provide the ageing workforce and its successors with the skills and capacity needed for sustainable business transfer through the development of innovative solutions. The active involvement of local authorities in smoothing out the path for successful business transfer is crucial, not only for regio ...
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Development of interregional financial assistance to SMEs and of non-grant instruments (DIFASS)

Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,

...ill be provided for - an internet based Micro Finance Management tool from Hungary to regions in Estonia, Spain, Italy and the Slovak Republic and- a programme to support internationalisation of SMEs business from Andalusia to regions in Denmark, Italy, Romania and Sweden. Achievement ...
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Innovative Forsight Planning for Business Development (IFP)

Start date: May 31, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

IFP establishes a transnational framework of cooperation to systematically tackle challenges regarding the competitiveness of regions in the NSR in the global economy. Foresight Planning is used as a method not only to link regions and selected clusters transnationally and plan for joint actions in the future, but also to find solutions tailor-made for the regions facing challenges related to the ...
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Transparency of officials’ generic competences and opportunities for developing them – examples of selected EU Member States

The overall objective of the project is to propose a solution which, when applied in the Europass Portfolio, will contribute the improvement of transparency and comparability of competences achieved by EU citizens, especially those working in or seeking a job in public administration. The specific objective of the Partnership will be to develop a unified method (in the form of a grid) for describi ...
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Clean Tech Employees & STudents

VET students and VET-level employees currently have insufficient knowledge about Clean Technologies and sustainability and how to implement these broad themes in practice in SMEs. The EU has made it clear that investing in these qualities is important for a sustainable Europe. The Europrean Council stated in Dec 2010 that this basis in VET-education is weak in its “Council conclusions on education ...
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ENT-TEACH

The central aim of the project is to equip VET teachers to teach students the emerging skills of entrepreneurship with a focus on the (start-up) micro enterprise. VET students who finish their studies are usually expected to continue their education elsewhere or start a job. Some former students however start up their own firm. Most teachers are unaware of this next step a student takes after grad ...
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KNOWMAKERS

The KNOWMAKERS project aims to provide European SME managers with the necessary skills for the application of knowledge management procedures and tools within their own organisation.An initial analysis will be undertaken to identify barriers (particularly those resulting from the lack of competencies) to the implementation of knowledge management systems and procedures in SMEs. Training needs will ...
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New learning environment for Very Small Enterprises : learning, exploring and sharing

Start date: Jan 1, 2014,

...xible and demand-driven offers available. VSE demand for individual, just-in-time, uncomplicated and cheap training solutions. Besides, a greater proximity and cooperation opportunities between small businesses is doubtless a valuable factor for VSE and can enhance their participation in continuous training.The aim of this project is to develop a user-friendly environment for training VSE, while e ...
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Entrepeneurship Trainers for VET: A Novel Generation Learning approach

The ENTANGLE project addresses entrepreneurship in (Secondary) Vocational Education institutes. The project has an innovative practical approach to stimulating entrepreneurship among students in VET institutions by providing their teachers with the tools and materials to educate, inspire and motivate their students for them to be able to pursue a career as an entrepreneur.VET students who finish t ...
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M.E.N.S. - Managing Enterprise Networks

This is a M.E.N.S world : The project has produced training procedures, modules and materials which will prepare SME managers for the creation of networks of business cooperation, vital for the competitiveness of SMEs in today's global economy. This project started in 2003 and lasted 24 months.
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Virtual Pre-Incubator Accelerator II

...ning and advisory services for a specific target group including students, graduates, and people at research and education agencies, inventors and women. ViPiA’s ultimate objective is to strengthen business creation and levels of sustainability in the EU, by increasing the quantity and quality of eligible incubatees. Specifically, the main project aims are: • To encourage entrepreneurship and inno ...
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INSPIREYOWUp - INnovative training material to INSPIRE and Empower (unemployed and inactive) Young and Women to Startup

The project will - based on desk-research of the partners and a survey based broad user needs analysis - adapt and develop an innovative training package and on-line platform for entrepreneurship skills targeting unemployed and inactive young and women to be tested and evaluated by the target groups (TGs).
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Bridging the Gap

...ovative methodology of training & developing entrepreneurs,"The Bridge Model” (TBM), and used it to meet new&established needs in new socio-cultural & linguistic contexts.TBM emerged in the UK from businesses & trainers collaborating to up-skill individuals to run their own businesses – a model which saw over 18 successful enterprises launched in the last 24 months.TBM is an enabling & empowering ...
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MITHRAS

The project is devoted to the implementation of a training plan for SMEs employees such as to allow them to share and apply knowledge and know how in team activities, together with other team member. Collaborative knowledge demands, as a pre-requisite, appropriate skills and abilities: the training programme, e.learning based, has that purpose. As a preliminary activity, a research is envisaged on ...
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Entering the Bio Based EconomY

Reasons.Vocational colleges in the agricultural sector in Europe experience problems to deliver well qualified workers to innovative companies in the Bio Based Economy (BBE). In general, teachers do not have the specific training materials at hand, directly related to the new BBE. Most VET colleges (EQF3-4) do not possess the right and specific educational materials that fit the BBE challenge.Outc ...
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K-start: Transferring knowledge from senior to juniors & startups

The K-start project was designed to encourage well experienced senior employees to take on a challenge and engage into the process of transferring their knowledge to younger colleagues or business start-ups. This included improving their HR management and mentoring skills with the help of easy accessible e-book and training programs delivered by project partners. The K-start project developed a da ...
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Ready - Steady - Internship

...mpany cards. The company cards include a description of the company and the internship it offers.The RSI platform has been developed by a consortium of EU partners form education and business. The international project group of RSI worked together from 2013-2015 with support from the European Commission through the Leonardo da Vinci - Long Life Learning Programme.
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RESIST - Retaining Students In School Together

...s a hands-on approach tostudent drop-out prevention through SMEinvolvement.We encourage every VET college in Europeto use this manual to get a clear view onhow to organise a series of events wherethe Business World can truly connectwith Vocational Education. These eventscan be organised in many different forms,we will provide you with some concreteguidelines.The manual is available for download in ...
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Talent, Information Society and Management – TALISMAN

The TALISMAN project aims to create and develop a training plan aimed at providing managers and those responsible for human resources within SMEs with the skills and abilities required to successfully implement ‘talent management’ procedures and policies. Project partners will undergo an initial analysis of the barriers and the training needs to enable successful talent management within SMEs, acr ...
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Pandora, Risk Management for European SMEs

The objectives of the training program:Our goal is to alter the attitude of both managers and employees of SMEs towards risk assessment as well as to facilitate them to deal with risk assessment in a responsible and affordable way.
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INTERJOB4YOUTH- Transference of a Labour Exchange Methodology to icrease the employability and the mobility among youngsters

The recent economic crisis is unprecedented in our generation. The constant progress in economic growth and job creation recorded during the last decade has disappeared in most EU countries. According to Agenda 2020, one of the pillars for the future of the EU is based on the creation of inclusive growth, which is building an economy with a high level of employment that result in economic, social ...
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CICEI - Creating an Innovative and Competitive Egg Industry

...ly, both with foreign imports and domestic challenges such as rising animal feed prices.The aim of CICEI is clear: to train managers of egg packing, processing and marketing SMEs to develop their business in an innovative manner in line with legislative and commercial imperatives, and thus compete effectively, as it is only through their increased skills, adaptability and innovation that the indus ...
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iVOC – international supporting network for vocational and academic guidance staff

With regard to different conditions, demographic developments and changes in the participating partner countries the project “iVOC” will analyse approaches and offers for vocational and academic guidance for youth and pupils in terms of development, contents, didactical concepts and methods, target groups and access to the target groups, implementation, success, pros and cons, etc. to derive Best ...
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Connessione, work-life balance

BDF is a Dutch Business Innovation Center. It has developed a European project called Connessione.Connessione stimulated entrepreneurs to implement an active ‘Work Life Balance’ policy for their employees. A solid balance between work and other activities influence the (personal) life and working efficiency of the employee in a positive way.Within the Connessione project, BDF exchanged innovative ...
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CREATIN - Creativity Techniques for Innovation in Products and Services

CREATIN aims to improve capacity for innovation in products and services of European SMEs through the application of creativity techniques, creating a methodology for continuous learning for the human resources of the centers and organizations for SMEs support, and the human resources of the SMEs, giving them the skills and abilities to integrate and apply these techniques to the innovation in pro ...
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Street Food: Opportunities for Entrepreneurs

A. We completed a full Training Needs Analysis Report (work Package 2) that looked at:-Existing Supports for Street Food Traders in each country- Review of Existing Literature- Interview with 10 Street Traders in each partner country-Interviews with stakeholders (enterprise support agencies, market managers etc).- Interview with government representative body in each partner country.- Best Practis ...
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Virtual and Integrated Support for innovative Young Entrepreneurs & Start-ups - VISiYES

The project will construct a comperehensive set of business learning support tools. Via Internet the entrepreneurs will go through an innovative curriculum, tailored to e-tutoring - a negotiated work-based learning. The target groups are seen as young entrepreneurs and micro enterprises & small businesses in high-growth innovation-led sectors. The basic approach is negotiated work-based learning ( ...
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