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Entrepreneurship and Communication in Multicultural Teams
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2019
PROJECT
FINISHED
ECMT+ aims at developing European entrepreneurial mind-set and practices that foster the highly-important transversal skills and employability of HEI graduates. ECMT+ promotes teachers' expertise by creating a community of practice and strengthens the links between the HEIs and industry. In addition, ECMT+ strengthens HEIs working life relevance developing education that responds to the needs of the local businesses and expands the understanding of the potential of the international co-operation and networks. Partnership focusing on entrepreneurship and intercultural communication can only benefit the universities, their staff and students, and strengthen European identities.ECMT+ consortium formulates a continuity to the co-operation bringing it into a new level fulfilling the educational policies (Europe 2020, Entrepreneurship 2020, 2011 European Modernisation Agenda). The partnership relies on an adequate combination of expertise and competences from different European partners needed to implement the project. Each partner has its own profile supporting the entity. Furthermore, the team members are embedded with their local communities including the businesses enabling them to bring in practical experiential learning models and connections with real-world entrepreneurs.ECMT+ methodology relies on sharing, responsibility, proper planning and detailed preparations by all the partners. The methodology of implementation is based on iterative and participatory co-creation of knowledge and expertise where all the partners' expertise is valued and considered. The analyses, pilots, reflections and further development both of the process and outputs are embedded into the process. In the hermeneutic circle of co-creation of knowledge the questions of why, what, how and when are in on-going dialogue. The project implementation is divided into work packages and all the activities and timing are clarified in the work plan.ECMT+ project is organised through six work packages: management, curriculum development, community of practice, entrepreneur education research, digital platform and sustainability, dissemination & exploitation. Together these form an entity supporting the effective, high quality and in-time implementation of the project. First and last work packages are horisontal ones whereas four other include intellectual outputs and/or activities leading to the project results. The entity serves the aim to develop relevant, multicultural and future oriented entrepreneur education and support students' transversal skills promoting employability and job creation in a transnational context.As a summary ECMT+ provides:- Joint modules and recource package for bi -and multilateral use, these will be accessible and open for all after the project life span,- International intensive courses with students from all seven universities supporting curriculum development and internationalisation of education,- Digital platform, Community of Practice book and research publications supporting dissemination, exploitation and sustainability and opening education,- Teacher community developing expertise which will further help students outside of project itself, contributing to life-long learning and fluent pathways, and- International teacher mentoring model applicable wider among HEIs.The main result of ECMT+ is modernised and coherent higher education, whose operation serves the economic growth boosting graduate employability, businesses and entrepreneurship. The results will be exploited on local, regional, national and European level in all the partner countries. The impacts are varied; the ECMT+ course, blended module, digital learning materials and tools, community of practice, research journals and dissemination materials benefit all the stakeholders in a short and long run. ECMT+ builds human capacity and its impacts reach from local to regional and international levels. The direct beneficiaries are the staff and students but also working life partners. In a long term, also local business and people living in the regions will benefit. ECMT+ builds pathways between educational organisations and regions and promotes participatory cooperation. ECMT+ brings transparency to the development work and its achievements as well as promotes new applicable tools for entrepreneurship education. The international network brings added value enabling the co-creation of knowledge and flow of best practices from region to region across the borders. The impacts of the ECMT+ will cumulate in time bringing prosperity and expertise in each of the regions.