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BIRTH OF IDEAS
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The Green Paper. Entrepreneurship in Europe (Brussels, 21.1.2003. COM(2003) 27 final) and the Action Plan: The European agenda for Entrepreneurship. Brussels, 11.02.2004, pose the need to work on entrepreneurship. The "Birth of Ideas" will boost to the entrepreneurship, presenting creative projects models and highlighting the responsible behaviour of many entrepreneurs who respect both today’s and the future needs of our rural zones, specially between young people in rural areas. The project has a strong link with the European policies for employment and education. The “Europe 2020” strategy for growth and employment sets a target to achieve a 75% employment rate for the working-age population (20-64 years). The European Commission acknowledges that growth and employment in Europe crucially depend on its population having the right skills. . The following objectives were defined by the project’s partners: -To train social and economic agents for promoting creativity and analyse rural experiences of entrepreneurs. - To facilitate access to social and economic agents training by offering online learning based on Open Educational Resources (OERs) tailored for individual learners. - To make aware about self-employment of young people in rural areas. - To foster the provision of adult learners’ key competences coherent with employment-related issues, particularly on the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship. - To strengthen the capacities of adult education (AE) organisations active in the field of employment-related training to offer a high quality ICT-based training tailored for individual learners with disadvantaged background and fewer opportunities; such as rural youth - To enhance the professional development of AE staff by introducing new innovative educational methods: Open Educational Resources (OERs), blended learning approach and new role of trainer as a facilitator. - To raise awareness of the options offered by the rural heritage. - To help keeping the rural population and prevent migration to big cities. - To boost the economy of rural areas. - To improve the quality of life in rural areas. The profile of direct participants are at least 75 trainers/facilitators will enhance their professional competences on using innovative facilitating methods and promoting facilitator-support services within AE organisations by participating at national workshops for adult education staff, through the 5 national workshops for facilitators on implementation of models (O1), 5 national workshops for AE organisations and social and economic partners. On the other hand, the partners will involve totally 75 participants with fewer opportunities into the activities of the project, namely: 15 facing cultural differences (including migrants and ethnic minorities), 20 facing economic obstacles (including low income people) and 40 facing geographical obstacles (including people from rural areas). Seeking to address these objectives two main intellectual outputs will be developed: - Innovative model for training the creative skills of young entrepreneurs in rural areas and rural business experiences analysis (IMCRA model) (O1). - Innovative model, Organisation modernisation for the entrepreneurship in rural areas model (OMRA model) (O2), to ensure the effective implementation of the new methods and tools developed within the IMCRA model. Dissemination activities are essencial to potential longer term benefits: website (AE organisations’ part) where adult educators can openly access the OMRA model, and the leaflet for AE organisations and stakeholders.
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