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Digital skills and tools for Young Female Entrepre..
Digital skills and tools for Young Female Entrepreneurs
Start date: Oct 1, 2014,
End date: Sep 30, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The PROJECT contributes to the efforts for reduction of youth unemployment specially among women and for recognition and certification of skills developed in environments of non -formal and informal training/education that can be adapted to different work needs and environments.
Through the production of a structured product Digi Fem accompanied by MOOC courses, women will be enhanced to start up businesses, in a qualitative and quantitative rich frame of further personal development. The PROJECT seeks to connect dynamic areas of research, surveys, vocational training, dissemination and create a new professional framework on female business entrepreneurship for recognition and certification of learning outcomes, skills and competences in non formal/informal learning environments . Main objective is to offer to young women the possibility to be in contact with a supportive low cost mechanism and investigate in a simple way the needed steps for setting up a business, maintain established and find
Achievement of objectives: through the development, of ICT products, development of training curriculum based on profess framework, production of an innovative model for the recognition, development and certification of fem-entrepreneur skills, targeting unemployed young women or professionals wishing to develop new skills that enable them to respond more adequate to modern requirements of the labor market and business , in Europe.
Activities: testing courses under which participants will use all products during preparation phase, under the guidance of experienced trainers, professors. Surveys for the provision of data in order to develop the prof framework, focusing on the initiation of a tool for european institutionalization of female entrepreneurship. Women Participants face and cope with real challenges in a business world under a continuous process of transformation , on which knowledge, skills and competences are contested due to the lack of recognition and validation of skills and competences referring to professional framework. Young women will use projects products for job creation, job enhancement and acquisition of new job places, as well as for an unofficial self - assessment of competencies and skills in a virtual process.
The certification of learning outcome will be, compatible with the EQF and ECVET. Each beneficiary after completing the training / testing will receive a certificate which will identify/recognize their experience and capacities in business. In this way , the students will have the opportunity to present and use with confidence new competencies and improve their professional profile, claiming appropriate / matching for the same jobs in the labor market of their country and abroad.
The PROJECT is structured so that results directly benefit to three target groups :
1. The final users: young unemployed women and other NEETs and fewer opportunities young women interested in mobility, women needing support through new skills for the modern labor market and entrepreneurial activity, low cost . During the project is expected have a participation minimum of 240 people in each countrie.
2. Researchers / trainers / experts of the VET and educational sector: educational staff, HEIs, educational institutions, mentors to participating to production of outputs, surveys, professional framework and for the elaboration of results, factors of failure/risks/assumptions, consultants and more supporting staff from all partners. Expected to train, minimum 60 people in each countrie.
3. Partner organisations and cooperating stakeholders, at local , regional and national level: It is expected to reach at least 50 bodies , both from the participating countries and other countries of Europe.
Intellectual outputs
A. Digi-Fem: Research for the development of project's tools ( definition of the objectifs, parameters of business success, business param) .
B. Experimental development of educational methodology MOOC and more software tools. Also development of training curriculum, educational material, methods, techniques and tools, based on professional frame, evaluation procedures.
C. Transnational courses train the trainer one in Greece and one in Austria,
D. National Surveys and development of a system of certification of female skills/competences, ( based on EQF and ECVET ), production of professional framework on female entrepreneurship,
F. Pilot ( at least 12 pilot), training testing courses for all ICT products, in all European countries) .
G. Development communication platform for networking in local - national - European networks of beneficiaries as well as stakeholders ( creation of virtual environments to exchange ideas , knowledge , practices , proposals , involving key persons from the VET, business, universities' sectors).
H. Dissemination activities: awareness of more different social groups
I. Evaluation activities .
Six organizations are involved from GR, RO,GE,AT, IT.