The project “Entrepreneurship and Community
cooperatives” (EntCoM) aims at
fostering active citizenship and entrepreneurship (considering
social entrepreneurship) in small or remote areas,
The project has three clear
activities:
1) the development and consolidation of entrepreneurial
competences (knowledge, skills and attitude) in order to
structure
entrepreneurial initiatives under the specific framework of
“community cooperatives”;
2) Foster learning mobilities at EU level to answer local needs;
3) contribute to the recognition and validation of such
entrepreneurial competences under the ECVET, ESCO and EUROPASS
framework.
The project in hand aim at recognizing the central importance of
human capital, and at setting organizational and management
models that encourage the participation of all citizens as
“active members” of their community. At the same time, we must
not overlook the financial aspect necessary to the achievement
of societal objectives, which become important in the context of
the resources made available by the institutions related to the
community, such as municipalities. Indeed, by working together
businesses can reduce costs, share risks and create new
platforms for growth. Consortium co-operatives run on a shared
and equal
way by, and for the benefit of, their members. Members can be
businesses, partnerships or individuals.
At local and regional level, this project aim at providing a
realistic, practical and effective
answer to address a variety of current issues that exist also at
EU level, such as the economical emergency, the unemployment
rate, social cohesion, the digital agenda, rural and remote
territorial development. At national and EU level, the project
aim at providing a workable good practices considering the
preparation of the targeted population in terms of competences,
considering the recognition, transferability and accumulation of
the entrepreneurial competences according to the ECVET framework
in order to foster the mobility and improve the employability of
the targeted group represented by citizens in remote or rural
areas. Mobility indeed represents a key answer to the current
low rate employment context at EU level.
The target group addressed by the project in hand are citizens
from rural or remote area, and most particularly the “Not in
Education, Employment, or Training” (NEET) population. The term
NEET refers to people between 16 and 24 who are no longer in
compulsory schooling and yet have not taken on employment,
further education or training schemes such as apprenticeships.
Immediately after are the adult learning practitioners,
cooperatives (employers), and adult learning bodies in general.
The project provide the following results:
1) A training course (TC) comprising:
- a survey and mapping report on good practices;
- a curricula;
- a training guide (e-learning and residential);
- a tool kit for multipliers (EntCom4M)
- guidelines for in-service training.
2) ECVET guidelines tool kit and recommendations encompassing:
- applicable ECVET framework;
- Competences list (knowledge, skill and attitude;
- definition of Learning Outcomes.
- definition of Units of Learning Outcomes.
- Credit for learning outcomes (credit) tool.
- ECVET point tool.
TFEI is leading on the training course
development
Start Date - September 2014
- Duration 24 months
Programme: Erasmus+ Key action 2 "Strategic Partnership"
(2014-1-IT02-KA204-003631)
This project
has been funded with support from the European
Commission. This website and all its contents reflect
the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot
be held responsible for any use which may be made of the
information contained therein.
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Multiplier Event, 10th June 2016, London