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Innovation Skills for SMEs
InnoSkills project proposal means to tackle the lack of ability in acquiring innovation management techniques of Italian SMEs Middle Management professional profiles, and specifically in Veneto Region. In doing so, InnoSkills proposal means to take advantage of experiences of SMEs in Germany, Austria, Portugal and Czech Republic. The project wants to increase levels of competitiveness in SMEs rising their employees skills, considering such an industrial organisation as the most relevant for the economic model of the above Countries. With this aim, the project intends to localise, upgrade and transfer pre-existing learning materials (i. e. InnoSupport guide) suitable to transfer and improve innovation management techniques targeting groups of professionals, i.e. trainers, students, SMEs advisors and consultants and of course the Middle Management employees already working in SME environments of the above Countries. InnoSkills partnership to implement this proposal, has been developed in order to build an actual network, by means of partners chosen among the owners of the InnoSupport guide: LiNK and Pro Kompetenz in Germany and among Countries left out from the former InnoSupprot project: Treviso Tecnologia, Tinnova in Italy, E-Learning Concepts in Austria, the University of West Bohemia in Czech Republic and Parkurbis in Portugal. Each partner has been carefully chosen according its specific field of competence, particularly suitable to upgrade, nationally localise, highly customise self learning methodologies to wide spread the InnoSkills guide particular suitable to their national realities through their actual networks, which are reinforced by the availability of an extended network, already manifesting interests towards the porject’s results, and which will enable a concrete transfer of innovation management issues by a testing on field methodology. A major feature the project intends to carry out is a learning system especially available ‘just enough and just in time’ from the work station of any possible end user. The project’s products will consist on a InnnoSkills guide, on learning materials to be used especially in a informal and cooperative learning environments (web 2.0 technology). A web portal on Innovation Management, offering a customise e-learning tools reachable through a path of self assessment learning needs. InnoSkills project goals are to reach during the testing period 120 users. The dissemination strategy will warrant the involvement of 1000 people, via the partners network.