DigiFreeLancer – Digital and business skills for an incubator for freelance entrepreneurship

DigiFreeLancer – Digital and business skills for an incubator for freelance entrepreneurship

Implementation period: 01.11.2022 – 31.10.2024 (24 months duration)
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2022-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000085594

Project description:

DIGIfreelancer is a two-year EU project financed under the ERASMUS + program. The project aims to develop a model of virtual incubator, strengthening the freelancers in order to:
  • decrease their “mortality rate”
  • improve the overall income of the category
  • reduce “undeclared work” in favour of more stable and well-paid jobs
  • promote a work style that provides a better work-life balance – reduce the dissatisfaction rate of workers, who would be engaged in a job that they are passionate about and allows them to use their talents.

Target group

  • VET trainers
  • Existing freelancers
  • Wannabe freelancers
  • People who want to combine an autonomous activity with their work as an employee as a preparation for the ultimate change of direction
  • Professionals and consultants who offer services to other freelancers but whom freelancers believe they cannot turn to for economic reasons (e.g. notaries, lawyers, trademark experts, consultants, etc.).

Project results

The main results of the project will be the creation of:

Overview of the freelance world in Europe and survey on opportunities/disadvantages of the freelance economy

This work package aims to take a timely and accurate snapshot of the world of freelancing in Europe. It aims to highlight both the main characteristics of freelancers in the consortium countries and the expectations and needs of workers in terms of opportunities and training requirements.

Defining a methodology for the entrepreneurial training of freelancers

This work package will develop a manual for the creation of a freelance incubator model.

The manual will provide an accurate picture of the training methodologies to be adopted in order to build a robust and sustainable freelance economy.

Implementation of a digital incubator for freelancers

The result will be the creation of a technology app to support this system and testing content that is genuinely useful in creating an ecosystem to support the freelance economy. The app will be complemented in the future with input from freelancers and their stakeholders.

Partners

INSTALOFI LEVANTE SL (Spain – coordinator)

LABC S.R.L. (Italy)

ASSERTED KNOWLEDGE OMORRYTHMOS ETAIREIA  (Greece)

STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI  (Poland)

CANDIDE INTERNATIONAL (Belgium)

EUROPEAN LEARNING CENTRE  (Spain)

ARCHIVIO DELLA MEMORIA (Italy)

Project website: https://digifreelancer.erasmus.site/

SOURCE Teaching and visual methods for online instructors

SOURCE Teaching and visual methods for online instructors

Implementation period: 01.11.2022 – 31.10.2024
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2022-1-RS01-KA220-ADU-000088577

Project description:

The SOURCE consortium consists of partners actively involved in providing structured and semi-formal learning experiences. During the preparatory discussions, the main finding was that educators lack the digital competence and skills to move beyond the flat delivery of online learning and provide engaging and participatory learning experiences.

The SOURCE project focuses on improving the digital competence of educators to design and deliver engaging online learning experiences. There is strong evidence that distance learning is the dominant process and will remain so. According, Times Higher Education’, on the outlook for higher education from the perspective of leaders of the world’s major universities in 2018, it is predicted that by 2030, the majority of prestigious universities will offer their full courses online. Until recently, most online courses have been dictated by technology. However, it is important to understand that online teaching is not a purely technological issue and, to be effective, it is more than just delivering a course face to face through another medium.

Target group

  • Experts in adult learning – adult trainers, instructors, facilitators, educators, mentors coaches providing online learning services and remote teaching, curriculum designers experts, educational technologists;
  • lifelong learners, trainees or upskilling/reskilling;
  • training managers that focus on managerial aspects, including curriculum assessment, learning systems, quality assurance and administration;
  • eLearning industry;
  • policymakers, educational leaders;
  • the general public, individual professionals.

Project results

The main results of the project will be the creation of:

Online Instructors – best practices, skills and competences :

Identification and analysis of current best practices in educational technologies and remote teaching. This is collaborative desk research on a national, European and international level.

Design and development of training material:

The development of the SOURCE curriculum clearly stating aims and outcomes, programme outlines, learning objectives and intended learning outcomes, methods of delivering, identification of appropriate learning components to promote efficient learning, etc.

Pilot the SOURCE MOOC:

An online dedicated space (Training Platform) to host the SOURCE training material. It will draw on the concepts of

microlearning in terms of functionalities, self-paced learning, the granularity of topics and ideas, diversified strategies and learning sequences and modes of learning. The SOURCE team will use existing infrastructure and deploy open source technologies to minimize costs.

Project website: TBA

Partners:

  • UMOVI EVROPE (Serbia – coordinator)
  • ARCHIVIO DELLA MEMORIA (Italy)
  • LABC S.R.L. (Italy)
  • STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI (Poland)
  • EUROPEAN LEARNING CENTRE (Spain)
  • ASSERTED KNOWLEDGE OMORRYTHMOS ETAIREIA (Greece)
  • CANDIDE INTERNATIONAL (Belgium)
BRAND – Boosting youth towards Responsible and sustainAble choices in fashioN inDustry

BRAND – Boosting youth towards Responsible and sustainAble choices in fashioN inDustry

Implementation period: 01.09.2022 – 31.08.2024
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2021-2-AT01-KA220-YOU-000050104

Project description:

European Youth Strategy 2019-2027 acknowledges the crucial need to empower young people to start taking responsibility for their actions and impact on the life of future generations.Clothing industry is indissolubly related to this goal, having a significant impact on the environment. BRAND project aims to raise the awareness of young people on the themes of fast fashion and its severe impacts on the environment and provide youth workers with all the necessary material and tools in order to raise awareness, influence and empower young people towards more eco-friendly fashion choices for a greener and more sustainable fashion future, through the development of digital innovative tools and deliverables.

Target group

  • Youth workers, social workers, coaches and mentors of young people
  • Young people aged from 15 to 25

Project results

  • R1: BRAND ECO-FASHION Toolkit an interactive set addressed both to young people and youth workers and it will be presented under a PDF interactive format. Its two parts, “Be Aware” and “Be Prepared”, serve to deliver deep knowledge on the concept of eco-fashion to young people and youth workers and youth educators, while the context promotes the nurturing of ethical, ecological and sustainable mindsets towards the fashion industry.
  • R2: BRAND E – book will display case studies and best practices, influence and inspire target groups of the BRAND project.
  • R3: BRAND e – NFLUENCERS the digital role-model guide, will redound the consortium to meet its objectives presenting responsible, wise and green personas to be followed. Role models will have the power to influence young people to follow sustainable and responsible behaviors and will equip youth workers with knowledge on boosting such behaviors.
  • R4: BRAND Mobile App mainly will be addressed to young people, developing an interactive environment of knowledge (5R Library & Materials and Textiles sector) and will aim to cultivate young fashion customers and consumers with sustainable, ecofriendlier, mindsets towards more eco-conscious fashion decisions.

Partners

  • Sudwind – Vienna, Austria (coordinator)
  • Kainotomia – Larissa, Greece
  • Crossing Borders – Kopenhagen, Denmark
  • CWEP – Rzeszów, Poland
  • Danube 1245 – Sremski Karlovci, Serbia
  • MECB Ltd. – Iklin, Malta

Website: in progress

Re – breading  – Re-branding bread to improve quality of production and reduce food waste

Re – breading – Re-branding bread to improve quality of production and reduce food waste

Implementation period: 01.02.2022 – 01.02.2024
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2021-1-LT01-KA220-VET-000034891

Project description:

The Re-breading project aims to implement the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy outlined in the European Green Deal. The strategy is a fair, friendly and healthy food system to reduce food and prevent waste, support and promote sustainable food production and consumption as well as sustainable food processing and distribution. Re-Breading envisages the creation of sustainable, but also new, healthier and more nutritious options in the production and consumption of bread, emphasising the importance of understanding ingredients, careful selection of raw materials and methods. By rebranding the identity and increasing the nutritional quality of bread products, the project will also contribute to ‘reversing the rise in overweight and obesity rates across the EU by 2030’, which is highlighted as ‘critical’ in the Farm to strategy, which also states that ‘if European diets are aligned with dietary recommendations, this could lead to a significant reduction in the environmental footprint of food systems. The project also aims to contribute to the reduction of food waste at both retail and consumer level by training new and future baking professionals who can have a direct impact on consumers through their productions, thereby reducing ‘the estimated amount of household food waste, which is strongest among the three sectors of households, food services and retail.

Target group

  • bakers – both graduates and current students Grupa docelowa
  • VET trainers, Educators,VET training institutions, SMEs in the bread industry, nutritionists, millers

Project results

  • R1: Re – Breading training programme
  • R2: Re – Breading Online platform
  • R3: Re – Breading interactive Guidebook

Partners

  • EUROPOS SOCIALINIS VERSLUMOUGDYMO IR INOVATYVIU STUDIJU INSTITUTAS – Kaunas, Lithuania (coordinator)
  • CSI CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION LTD – Nicosia, Cyprus
  • STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI – Rzeszów, Poland
  • FUTURE IN PERSPECTIVE LIMITED – BALLYJAMESDUFF, Irleand
  • BUYUK ORTADOGU SAGLIK VE EGITIM VAKFI – Ankara, Turkey
  • JOBALITO RECTECH LTD – Larnaka, Cyprus
  • AKMI ANONIMI EKPAIDEFTIKI ETAIRIA – Athens, Greece

Social media: https://www.facebook.com/rebreading.europe

Website: in progress

GAEA – Granting Access to Employment and Entrepreneurship in Agriculture for women

GAEA – Granting Access to Employment and Entrepreneurship in Agriculture for women

Implementation period: 29.06.2022 – 25.06.2025
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 101056279

Project description:

GAEA is a forward-looking project, aiming to improve the quality of entrepreneurship education in the agriculture sector for young women not in employment, not in training (NEETs) living in rural areas. Aligned with the latest EU priorities, GAEA is fully encompassing the priority of sustainable development and green transition. The project is also aligned with the EU’ Common Agricultural Policy. The project’s main aim is to provide a solid connection basis amongst the sector’s key stakeholders, through the introduction of a one-stop-shop (OSS) digital platform. The platform, will include a number of key training material, industry links, mentorship and coaching opportunities, and a highly innovative application which will give the opportunity to young women to assess their skills based on ESCO classification.

Target group

  • Women neither in employment nor in education and training (NEET situation) living in rural areas
  • Women with a migrant background
  • Higher education students (HE students)
  • Higher education staff (HE staff) – Academia
  • VET trainers and professionals providing career consulting services

The main objectives of the project are:

  • Empower women from rural areas on the skills, knowledge, values and attitudes to pursue opportunities to be entrepreneurial, innovate and generate sustainable growth and employment in agriculture, agrifood and agrotourism.
  • Improve the framework conditions and personal and societal mindsets to strengthen resilience, boost innovation, enhance the digital transformation and achieve more responsive, cohesive and future-proof rural communities.
  • Promote new professional pathways and tailored career counselling, guidance and mentoring for women in rural areas by linking training and educational contents to skills that can be easily understood by the labour market, thus making up- and re-skilling.
  • Build a long-lasting multidisciplinary and multistakeholder Alliance that can co-create and transfer knowledge and exchange practices to solve societal challenges and labour market needs, and advocate for more informed policies concerning the role of women in agripreneurship, agrifood and agrotourism.
  • Enhance the cooperation between education and training, research, labour market, the public sector and the business sector to foster the adoption of common European competence frameworks (with special reference to EntreComp and DigComp) and instruments (such as ESCO) that increase transparency and recognition of skills.

Partners

  • IMH C.S.C. LIMITED (Cyprus)
  • GRANTXPERT CONSULTING LIMITED – Cyprus
  • INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING AND MOBILITY AGENCY SOCIEDAD DE
  • RESPONSABILIDAD LIMITADA – Spain
  • Verein für sozialwissenschaftliche Beratung und Forschung e.V. – Germany
  • CESKA ZEMEDELSKA UNIVERZITA V PRAZE – Czech Republic
  • PRIOS KOMPETANSE AS – Norway
  • Union of Hungarian Women – Hungary
  • Skilllab B.V. – Netherlands
  • COMITE DES ORGANISATIONS PROFESSIONNELLES AGRICOLE DE L UNION
  • EUROPEENNE COPA ASSOCIATION DE FAIT – Belgium
  • EMPORIKO KAI VIOMICHANIKO EPIMELITIRIO HERAKLIOU – Greece
  • STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI – Poland
  • PANEPISTIMIO PATRON – Greece
  • UNIVERZA V MARIBORU – Slovenia

Website: https://www.gaeaeuproject.com/

DEMETRA: Developing Entrepreneurial skills & tools for woMEn in agriculTure in Rural Areas

DEMETRA: Developing Entrepreneurial skills & tools for woMEn in agriculTure in Rural Areas

Implementation period: 01.11.2021 – 01.11.2023
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2021-1-ES01-KA220-ADU000026316
Action Type: Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training

Project description:

DEMETRA, is a project dedicated to the creation of those conditions that will enable women in rural areas to be involved in the agricultural sector and showcase entrepreneurial activity in the aforementioned sector.

By providing the tools for educating women on agricultural entrepreneurship, and offer them the ability to develop an entrepreneurial mindset and skills, the project aspires to become a milestone and a point of future reference for women in the field of agripreneurship. On the whole, the project addresses the need to better understand existing and needed competences of women in rural areas with regards to agricultural entrepreneurship and promote a more inclusive context for their participation in the field. At the same time, this project is a response to the need of women for education through a specifically designed innovative curriculum, platform and a mentoring scheme reflecting on women’s current agricultural entrepreneurship needs for training and also a response to the lack of resources on the topic for VET providers.

In specific, the following project results will be developed:

  1. DEMETRA Matrix of Competences and Policy Recommendations Report
  2. The Green Agripreneurs’ DEMETRA Curriculum
  3. DEMETRA: The All-Encompassing Platform
  4. DEMETRA Pilot Course
  5. DEMETRA Mentoring Scheme

For the following DEMETRA target audience:

  • VET providers – educational institutions and other training organizations
  • Stakeholders such us agricultural organizations and associations, farmers and other rural actors
  • Women in rural areas and other individuals involved in agricultural activity
  • Businesses and StartUps in related sectors (Food and Beverage, Commerce, Services etc)
  • Decision makers
  • Media
  • General public

Follow the project!

Project website: https://www.demetra-project.com/

Project Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ProjectDemetra

Partners

  • Coordinator – (Cyprus) IMH C.S.C LIMITED
  • (Greece) HERAKLION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
  • (Germany) ISOB
  • (Slovenia) UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR
  • (Cyprus) GRANTXPERT CONSULTING LIMITED
  • (Czech Republic) CZU (UNIVERSITY) Prague
  • (Poland) Centre for Education and Entrepreneurship Support – CWEP
TECOFASH – Strategic Partnership Promoting Education for the Transition of the Fashion Sector Towards Digital and Sustainable Business Models

TECOFASH – Strategic Partnership Promoting Education for the Transition of the Fashion Sector Towards Digital and Sustainable Business Models

Implementation period: 01.01.2022 – 01.01.2024
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2021-1-PL01-KA220-VET000034636
Action Type: Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training

Project description:

The main objective of TECOFASH is to contribute to a competitive and sustainable European fashion industry.

The project focuses on increasing the capacity of professionals from SMEs and start-ups to turn their business toward circular business models, as well as environmental and sustainable innovation as a result of transnational and intergenerational cooperation and training. TECOFASH training considers the triple bottom line of Elkington theory: the economic, the social and the environmental, key for sustainability.

TECOFASH 3 main results:

R1. Sustainable and digital production processes

R2. Sustainable and digital management of a fashion company

R3. Online cooperative platform

TECOFASH online:

Our hashtag: #TECOFASH

Project website: https://tecofash.erasmus.site/

Partners

  • Coordinator – (Poland) Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Katowice
  • (Spain) MARKEUT SKILLS
  • (Greece) INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
  • (Italy) LOTTOZERO
  • (Poland) Association for the Promotion of Old Crafts and Culture – Wici
  • (Lithuania) Lithuanian apparel and textile industry association
  • (Poland) Centre for Education and Entrepreneurship Support – CWEP
ESG-UP – Strategic partnership to up-skill European SMEs in the development of Environmental, Social and Governance strategies

ESG-UP – Strategic partnership to up-skill European SMEs in the development of Environmental, Social and Governance strategies

Implementation period: 28.02.2022 – 27.02.2024
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2021-1-IE01-KA220-VET-000034728
Action Type: Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training

Project description:

The main objective of ESG-UP is to address the training and knowledge gaps of SMEs in sustainability practices to become more competitive and resilient. The project focuses on sustainable business operations as a result of integrating ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) objectives and measurements.

ESG-UP target audience:

– SMEs and start-up business representatives (TG1), as well as

– all the professionals that provide education, C-VET, assessment and support to TG1, especially in the field of business model implementation, and also working processes, HR management or any transversal activity that help to improve their efficiency and sustainability.

The following results will be created and implemented by the end of the project implementation period:

  • mobile report on sustainable performance,
  • training package, and
  • panorama of sustainable business practices and self-assessment tool.

These results will enable SMEs employees to develop and implement efficient sustainable business models with a holistic full business approach.

Follow the project!

Project website: https://esg-up.erasmus.site

Project Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ESGUPproject

Project LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/esg-up-project/

Partners

  • Coordinator – (Ireland) DUBLIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
  • (Spain) MARKEUT SKILLS
  • (Greece) INSTITUTE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
  • (Spain) FYG CONSULTORES
  • (Sweden) SWIDEAS
  • (Poland) STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI
BLOSSOM – Basic competences as literacy, numeracy & digital skills focused on business development

BLOSSOM – Basic competences as literacy, numeracy & digital skills focused on business development

Implementation period: 01.02.2022 – 01.02.2024
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2021-1-ES01-KA220-ADU-000035128
Action Type: Cooperation partnerships in adult education

Project description:

The overall objective of BLOSSOM is to improve learning opportunities of adult women with low qualifications by strengthening their basic competences as literacy, numeracy and digital skills focused on business development.

BLOSSOM is for adult low-qualified women and experts, providers or policymakers in adult education.

The following results will be created and implemented by the end of the project implementation period:

Result 1.

Design and development of core skills and key competencies model needed to up-skill adult women with reference to empower women motivation for professional development and business literacy, numeracy & digital skills

Result 2.

Plan and design program for women professional growth & business Literacy, Numeracy and Digital skills training for low-qualified adult women in form of TOOLKIT

Result 3.

E-Learning Platform for “BLOSSOM” training program and on-line self-assessment tool

Result 4.

Self- Assessment Tool for BLOSSOM

Find out more!

Project website: https://blossom.erasmus.site/

Project Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BlossomErasmusPlusProject/

Partners:

MET-VET – Metacognition for Environmental Thinking in VET

MET-VET – Metacognition for Environmental Thinking in VET

Implementation period: 01.05.2022 – 30.04.2024
Assistance program: ERASMUS+
Project number: 2021-2-PL01-KA220-VET-000050783

Project description:

MET-VET will support the greening process and wider European environmental and sustainability targets and objectives by developing an innovative set of tools which support environmental awareness through a broader metacognitive knowledge and skill among VET learners, and their educators to support the role of VET centres as hugely influential educators as Europe embarks on a digital and environmental shift. Set within this context, this project will facilitate the adoption of environmental metacognition strategies, improve the environmental metacognitive abilities and positive mindset towards lifelong learning, upskill VET practitioners with knowledge of environmental metacognitive theories to provide support and the skills to train learners to adopt metacognition and raise the profile of environmental metacognitive skills as a core part of VET provision at EU and national level.

Target Group:

  • VET learners engaged in digital, distance and online learning
  • VET providers and practitioners

Project Results:

  • Result 1 Metacognition for Environmental Thinking Competence Framework
  • Result 2 “Metacognition for an Environmental Approach to VET” Learner and Facilitator MOOC – The first 15 hour MOOC and supporting CPD resources is aimed at VET practitioners.
  • Result 3 VET Reflective Digital Story Library and Creation Guide – The reflective digital story library will be the key output of the MET-VET project, as it creates an immersive, engaging and highly innovative methodology to engage VET learners.
  • Result 4 VET Metacognition Change Management Toolkit – The toolkit will provide key resources to VET centres and their leaders and governance personnel to support their teachers and learners to make a sustainable transition to the integration of environmental metacognition within their existing VET learning environment.

Project website: https://met-vet.erasmus.site/

Partners:

  • STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI (Poland)
  • INERCIA DIGITAL SL (Spain)
  • VOLKSHOCHSCHULE IM LANDKREIS CHAM EV (Germany)
  • ESSENIA UETP – UNIVERSITY AND ENTERPRISE TRAINING PARTNERSHIP (Italy)
  • OLOKLIROSI SINGLE MEMBER PRIVATE COMPANY (Greece)
  • SYNTHESIS CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LIMITED (Cyprus)
  • CUIABLUE OÜ (Estonia)