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Embedding Entrepreneurship Education

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Current EU economic and social policy places a high value on nurturing entrepreneurship among young people. Yet levels of student entrepreneurship in universities and colleges across Europe remain low. Those HEIs that wish to improve entrepreneurship education often find they lack the skilled human resources and funding needed, and are impeded by staff’s narrow vision of entrepreneurship as a fie ...
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Community of Responsible Recreational Initiatives in Europe

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

... Portuguesa de Inovação is a private consulting company established as an active centre of national and international networks connected to the SME and innovation sectors. • Canice Consulting is a small yet established private company based in Northern Ireland which operates in the fields of local and regional development, enterprise education and management and technical support to EU networks an ...
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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,

Today when SMEs face problems related to start up, innovation and growth, they find help in a proactive ecosystem of intermediary organizations: Yet the vast majority of these organizations do not currently provide guidance to SMEs on the subject of apprenticeships. RAISE seeks to address this situation by building the capacity of intermediary bodies to develop and operate support structures which ...
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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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Creative Entrepreneurs Online

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

Digital communications are revolutionising our economy and society, enabling disruptive innovation and creating new business models. In the words of JC Juncker, President of the European Commission, “Europe's path to growth is paved with tablets and smartphones.” (1) Yet the digital landscape is complex and as new business models emerge, our education and VET systems are lagging behind. The gap b ...
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Enterprise in Interface

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

...evelopment) and market orientation (public, private, not-for-profit). We are: • East Belfast Enterprise, a Northern Irish enterprise development agency working in the heart of Belfast • Canice Consulting is a NI consultancy with a specialization in online and blended learning • Creative Spark, is a creative training facility on the interface between the traveller and settled communities in Dunda ...
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Food Incubators Transforming Regions

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

Food and drink represents the largest manufacturing sector in the EU and encouragingly has sustained positive growth. Even during the economic downturn, levels of employment in the food and drink industry remained quite stable. The majority of the 287,000 EU food companies employing employ 4.25 million people are SMEs or micro-enterprises. While the sector has excellent potential for artisan and ...
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Mobile & Digital Elearning Toolkit

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

...he corresponding platform all by themselves. Our partnership is formed by VET and HEI specialists, from across the profit, non-profit and public sectors. The project will be led by Canice Consulting, an international consultancy in the field of business VET with a growing specialism in digital elearning and marketing platforms. Two universities will contribute to the research and pilot test pha ...
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Creative Communities Igniting Change

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

The creative sector has a major role to play in creating entrepreneurial opportunities which tackle discrimination and inequality in the field of entrepreneurship and employment. A leading driver of dynamic and innovative economies and an area of focus for EU development, it represents 6.8 % of European GDP (approximately €860 billion) and 6.5% of European employment (approximately 14 million). ...
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Value of Failure

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...ultancy, whose practical and holistic approach to enterprise training is reflected in highly successful online learning platform “Univations Academy”. The partnership is completed by Canice Consulting (UK), an international consultancy in the field of business VET with a growing specialism in digital learning and online marketing and Creo Mind (Poland), whose Director is a recognised authority in ...
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Regional Education and Employment Alliances

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

...eing known for its work on innovation in services which has contributed to development of highly successful cluster of creative businesses in its region. The partnership is completed by Canice Consulting, an international consultancy in the field of business VET with a growing specialism in digital learning and marketing and Mindshare Consulting, whose Director is a recognised authority in inn ...
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SME and Higher Education Institutes in Innovation Partnerships

Start date: Dec 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

SME and Higher Education Institutes in Innovation Partnerships (SHIP) will strengthen the knowledge triangle, building sustainable collaborative relationships between universities, SMEs and innovation support organizations. It responds to the problem of increasing fragmentation in the field of innovation promotion, especially the dislocation between those who generate knowledge that could spur inn ...
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Developing Educational Tools for Healthy & Creative Food Regions

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...um & content development, Euro Foundations a Bulgarian not-for-profit organization with specific expertise in innovation, development of SMEs, stimulating innovation in food industry, & Canice Consulting (UK), an international consultancy in the field of business VET & a recognised expert in digital learning.
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Innovative Trainer

Innovative Trainer (IT) increased the capacity of Business Trainers and Mentors (BTMs) to support SMEs throughout Europe by developing a “Train the Trainer” blended learning training resource on non technological innovation. By updating their skills, BTMs will be better placed to provide guidance on how to innovate to small businesses, better adapting their services to changing business beneficiar ...
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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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Tackling Workplace Bullying for Adults with Learning Disability or Difficulties - Let me be me (Formerly Twobad)

Aims and ObjectivesThe Let me be me project aims at providing a research-based training toolkit on tackling the workplace bullying of Adults with Learning Disabilities or Difficulties (ALD/D) for employers, trainers and support staff. The training toolkit will include background information on the problem, its nature and the extent in Europe, current projects, initiatives and approaches to tackl ...
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Vocational Education and Training for Business Advisors (VETBA)

The project will increase the contribution of Business Advisors as change agents who facilitate the uptake of innovation and growth within their SME clients, and therefore, within the overall EU economy.The training aims to teach the knowledge necessary for Business Advisors, and improve their performance as mentors and business advisors.The objectives of the project were: - Identify, across Europ ...
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Foundations for Work

Young migrant workers with low qualifications and workplace skills have been hit especially hard by the economic crisis. Among immigrants, they are most likely to experience difficulties acquiring and retaining employment. A range of VET initiatives now exists for immigrants, yet their generic nature and focus on ICT means they are particularly unsuited to the young male workers who are most at ...
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Collaborate to compete (C2C)

Innovation is one of the principal means by which businesses can contribute to reaching the goals established by the Lisbon Council in 2000. Recent studies reveal that innovation is generated by exchanges of knowledge between businesses. Indeed, business collaboration is widely supported by academics, large companies and multilateral organisations and is at the heart of EU enterprise policy. Ye ...
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Pathways for Graduates

The PfG project will have a very significant impact on Graduates as it will assist them to get a job. It will do this by greatly improving their employability through developing their soft skills (communications, team work etc); improving their job search skills; building a deep understanding of what employers are looking for in potential new employees; & developing their interview and presentatio ...
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Learn Engage Create

Across Europe governments wish to “Unlock the potential of cultural and creative industries” (EU Green Paper) given their positive impact on economic, cultural and social development. More specifically, policy focuses on promoting technical and “soft” innovation to help individual Creative Companies (CCs) achieve their potential and become highgrowth SMEs. In practice though, CCs are unlike other ...
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Enhanced Competitiveness throughh ONgoing and Improved Transparency 2

ECON-IT 2 increases the capacity of Business Advisors to support SMEs throughout Europe by carrying out through transnational analysis of training needs and developing a corresponding training resource. By updating their skills, BAs are better placed to provide guidance to small businesses, better adapting their services to changing business beneficiary groups and sectors, and ultimately achieving ...
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Pathways to Work: an Employment Upgrade Training Programme for Young Immigrants

The project developed a training resource to help young immigrants (aged 18-30) to overcome barriers and “upgrade” their employment level. The project transferred existing UK materials and amended these to meet a new target group and a blended learning format within an integrated, multilingual e-learning website. The project resulted in a specific training needs analysis, pilot test phase and adap ...
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CICEI - Creating an Innovative and Competitive Egg Industry

“Creating an Innovative and Competitive Egg Industry” (CICEI) reflects the need to train European egg SMEs to innovate and compete effectively, 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 co ...
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European Entrepreneurs: Immigrants into Entrepreneurship

Immigrants form an increasing part of the population of European countries, and skillstraining, especially in dynamic areas such as entrepreneurship is essential, if immigrants are to fulfil their potential as individuals and as contributors to economic growth and social stability. However, immigrants are less likely to take up training than other groups.Similarly, business training organizations ...
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