Creating a business in the digital age - developing entrepreneurship competencies for young Europeans through eMentorship - CReBUS

LLP – Transversal Programme, KA3 ICT, 2010-2012
Project number: 511822-LLP-1-2010-1-RO-KA3-KA3MP

The emerging needs of a post-crisis society, the prospective studies at European level about the "new skills for new jobs", the strategy documents for Europa 2020 shows that new sectors will appear, new skills are needed, and among them, all have in common the entrepreneurial and ICT skills as basic ones. As demonstrated in the OECD Innovation Strategy, entrepreneurial skills and attitudes, risk-taking behaviour, creativity, etc. will be crucial competencies in the economy of the future (Policy Responses to the Economic Crisis: Investing in Innovation for Long-Term Growth, OECD 2009).

CReBUS project is aiming to develop a training system in order to facilitate the development of entrepreneurship competences for young graduates between 18-35 years old, using WEB 2.0. Bringing business closer to the young generation that succeeds harder to find a job, and enabling them to set up their own business is a viable solution to overcome the unemployed or migrant status they are exposed. By using dedicated WEB 2.0 applications and platforms, and eMentorship network, it can be facilitated the transfer of good practices amd experiences from the people who succeed in different types of business to young European entrepreneurs.

Four different groups are targeted:young entreperenurs between 18-35 years old; students about graduating/graduates from faculties of educational sciences, psychology, administration; representatives of employers, unions and SMEs.

The concrete objectives are:

• to evaluate the training needs and learning interests of the young entrepreneurs
• to identify the interest domains for starting a business from youngsters that are going to graduate and potential barriers
• to define a curriculum for developing entrepreneurial competencies, using the WEB 2.0 learning opportunities
• to develop a website that offers training activities as webinars, video conferences, possibilities for social networking and other resources for online learning, as well as eMentorship
• to develop an online community and a social network including young entrepreneurs, trainers and other stakeholders
• to exploit the potential of project outcomes for further development and sustainability beyond the EU-funding period.

More information about this project can be found at www.crebus.eu

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