The FIERE project (Furthering Innovative Entrepreneurship Regions of Europe) is funded under the Lifelong Learning GRUNDTVIG Programme of the European Commission. Aim of the project is to enhance regional public and voluntary organisations with innovative entrepreneurship skills that can facilitate bottom-up regional development and tie-in with top-down regional development policies.
The FIERE partnership is now publishing the results of the users’ innovative entrepreneurship skills survey, carried out in six European regions between July and October 2014 and aimed at gaining a level of understanding of the entrepreneurial skills and behaviours of employees from public, private, community & enterprise and voluntary sectors.
What do actors in regional and local organisations in European regions think about entrepreneurship skills? What’s their level of innovative entrepreneurship skills training?
Amongst the 450 respondents from 223 organisations surveyed, resourcefulness, resilience and analytical thinking were the most common skills cited as important for the organisation, the individual employee and as important skills to be trained in. Moreover, across all regions and sectors the value of an entrepreneurial skills training programme was valued very highly.
These results will support the development of an entrepreneurial skills training programme aimed at increasing the capacity and capability of individual employees to behave, think and act more entrepreneurially which will be delivered in each FIERE partner country in the course of 2015.
The full composite and national reports of the survey are available at the following link: http://www.fiereproject.com/reports/.
For more information on the project please write to: partnership@cesie.org and visit us on Facebook: facebook.com/fiereproject.
FIERE – 1st official press release
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