Objectives
- To enhance regional organisations’ abilities to plan actions and services for the socio-economic betterment of their regions
- To assist regional institutions to make their regions innovative and entrepreneurial, to turn ideas into jobs
- To provide innovative entrepreneurship education to personnel of regional, sub-regional and voluntary organisations
- To improve the accessibility of learning opportunities for adults
Activities
- Investigating the needs of regional actors in relation to innovative entrepreneurship skills through a user needs survey
- Development of an innovative entrepreneurship skills training programme
- Disseminating good practice case studies on the provision of innovative entrepreneurial education among regional stakeholders
- Organising pilot actions to test the innovative training programme and the good practice materials
- Dissemination of the project results to policy makers and regional stakeholders
- Evaluating and quality assuring the project’s products and impact
Results
- Executive Summary of the Literature Review on entrepreneurship education [en | it]
- National needs analysis on users’ innovative entrepreneurship skills (Italy 2015)aimed at gaining a level of understanding of the entrepreneurial skills and behaviours of employees from public, private, community & enterprise and voluntary sectors
- Composite report on users’ innovative entrepreneurship skills 2015: What do actors in regional and local organisations in European regions think about entrepreneurship skills? What’s their level of innovative entrepreneurship skills training?
- Innovative entrepreneurship trainee and trainer/mentor handbooks
- Network of regional innovative entrepreneurship mentors
- Best practice innovative entrepreneurship skills case studies
- Training provision and workshops
Partners
- Coordinator: South-East Regional Authority (Ireland)
- Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland)
- Institute for Postgraduate Studies (Bulgaria)
- Allweb Solutions S.A. (Greece)
- Associação Comercial e Industrial de Barcelos (Portugal)
- EINURD Limited (Iceland)