Project duration: 1.12.2020. – 31.10.2022.
Project reference: 2020-1-DE02-KA204-007719
Grant amount: 282.603,00 €
Donor: DE02 – Nationale Agentur Bildung für Europa beim Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung
Summary:
Lately, we are witnessing high unemployment rates, especially for adults with disabilities who have difficulties in getting jobs and gathering relevant experience for their (future) careers. Self-employment and entrepreneurship has turned out to be a valuable option for careers’ building. However, with the development of the IT sector, classic “offline” enterprises do not bring enough clients and profit and, thus, do not survive for long time. We believe that youth self-employment in digital entrepreneurship can reduce unemployment of adults with disabilities. With this project, we are answering to the needs defined by institutions, as well as the needs of our own educators and beneficiaries. We are promoting digital entrepreneurship of adults with disabilities and quality empowerment of our adult educators to be able to organise quality (digital) entrepreneurship education of our beneficiaries. We are producing intellectual outputs that will serve as a quality knowledge management material for education of current and future adult educators for quality empowerment and mentoring of beneficiaries for digital entrepreneurship, as well as an online (e-learning) course for direct education of adults for digital entrepreneurship start-ups.
Project objectives:
– Empower unemployed adults with disabilities for digital entrepreneurship start-up through development of inspiring, innovative and up-to-date handbook, as well as the online course.
– Empower our adult educators and improve knowledge management of our organisations in theory and practice for building competences of educators in digital entrepreneurship for adults with disabilities, through LTTA and innovative curriculum for educators’ training and useful toolkit with workshops for beneficiaries.
– Exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 5 European countries with different realities in regards to employment and digital entrepreneurship.
We expect following direct participants / beneficiaries of our project:
– 14 staff / project managers and assistants;
– 18 teachers/trainers/researchers, technicians working on the intellectual outputs;
– 14 adult educators trained as trainers for other adult educators on our LTTA;
– 35 multipliers adult educators that will test the outputs with at least 140 youngsters on local level;
– 190 participants of the multiplier events;
Project activities:
A1 – Project Management
M1 – Kick-off meeting
O1 – Handbook “Exploring Digital Entrepreneurship for adults with different abilities”
M2 – Second meeting
O2 – Curriculum “Empowering adult educators to encourage digital entrepreneurship start-ups among adults with different abilities”
O3 – Toolkit “Mentoring and supporting adults with different abilities for digital entrepreneurship start-up”
M3 – Third meeting
O4 – E-learning course “Digital entrepreneurship start-up course for adults with different abilities”
C1 – LTTA Training of trainers
E1, E2, E3, E4, E5 – Open conferences in SE, HR, RS, IT, DE
M4 – Evaluation meeting
With this project implementation, the organisations will be equipped with new educational approaches and tools that have a potential to be more effective when working with adults with disabilities and other fewer opportunities. The tools will be designed to address the specific circumstances and learning needs of the target group the partner organisations are working with; and will be piloted with a test group already during the project implementation. In addition, the online educational tool will have the potential to reach beneficiaries who are otherwise not involved in non-formal education activities.