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Project-IPEC
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Private enterprises make substantial use of projects to manage internal innovation, development projects and external work for clients. Established, larger companies often use a formal project management methodology. In contrast, SMEs are rarely able to employ dedicated project managers, find formal project methodologies, such as Prince2, too sophisticated, too costly and too time intensive for th ...
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Community of Responsible Recreational Initiatives in Europe
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
Tourism is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing economic sectors. Within this continuing growth of tourism there is 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 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,
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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I-STEP
Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,
I-STEP aims 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 border ...
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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,
Over 99% of ICT firms in Europe are SMEs, of which about 90% are micro-sized companies with 1-9 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 mu ...
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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,
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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Development of entrepreneurship, creativity and teamwork skills for students and teachers in VET
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2017,
During the last years of economic crisis, Cyprus has suffered both recession and unemployment, leading to serious social distress. While various government programmes and initiatives encourage hiring young people, the situation is still very difficult. In September 2015, youth unemployment rate in Cyprus was 32 %. According to psychologists, the consequences of unemployment to young people inclu ...
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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,
During the last years of economic crisis, Cyprus has suffered both recession and unemployment, leading to serious social distress. While various government programmes and initiatives encourage hiring young people, the situation is still very difficult. In September 2014, youth unemployment in Cyprus was 34,8%. According to psychologists, the consequences of unemployment to young people include d ...
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Transfer Of Knowledge - Transfer Of Human Capital (TOK-TOC)
Start date: Dec 31, 2011, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
There is robust evidence indicating that human capital drives economic growth and social capital and makes a major contribution towards achieving the Lisbon goals for a competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy. In this context, the project is intended toward the adaptability of the human capital to the current economic conditions, while ensuring that knowledge & know-how transfer from the ...
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New learning environment for Very Small Enterprises : learning, exploring and sharing
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
In the EU more than 99% are SME and over 90% of them are Very Small Enterprises (less than 10 employees). VSE constitute more than 30% of the potential job market. The fewer is the number of employees in a given VSE, the more functions are assigned to them, and as the priority is generally given to production/commercialization, the entrepreneurs and their staff do not take the necessary time to pa ...
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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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ROUTE 2.0 is aimed to promote the use of web 2.0 tools among SMEs belonging to tourism sector in a first approach but open to other type of sector (as travel agencies, leisure services, accommodation, catering, ...).
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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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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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'Don't wait for a job to come to you - create your own!' has been the key idea driving this Transfer of Innovation project. BTF, in partnership with 5 organisations, adapted an innovative 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 ...
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The project aims to create better opportunities for easy and low cost access to continued professional training 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 qualit ...
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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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RSI: The best way to find your future internshipReady Steady Internship (RSI) aims to support the placement, organization and implementation of internships during the vocational educational training (VET).The project´s ultimate goal is to have more VET students starting an internship which really matches their interest field, skills and competencies. To reach this goal an online internship toolbox ...
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