GUIDEBOOK with Curriculum: Empowering adult educators for Entrepreneurial learning, Intelligence and mind-set development among seniors and adults with fewer opportunities

GUIDEBOOK with Curriculum: Empowering adult educators for Entrepreneurial learning, Intelligence and mind-set development among seniors and adults with fewer opportunities

Description

This guidebook with curriculum is innovative resource to educate, support and mentor adult educators (current and future ones) to further develop (online and offline) organisational culture, mentoring and education for seniors and adults with fewer opportunities in our communities on topic of Entrepreneurial learning, Intelligence, and mind-set development in line with the new era entrepreneurship.

It comprises of two parts where the first part covers key concepts and recommendations of the related topics in the field of entrepreneurship for adult educators, while the second part consists of detailed development of sessions of an 8-day long training course.

The key innovation aspect of this guidebook with curriculum is in the topics covered in the field of entrepreneurship, as it focuses on the new era entrepreneurship and intrapersonal aspects of entrepreneurial mind-set. Until now, the standard educational programmes in this field focused more into business plan design. Our guidebook with curriculum is especially designed on focusing on the entrepreneurial skills development in the modern era.

This manual is available in more 5 Languages:

The motivation for this project “Entrepreneurship education for seniors and adults with fewer opportunities” was to equip seniors and adults with fewer opportunities with a set of skills needed for personal development in the areas of entrepreneurial intelligence and creating (self-)employment opportunities, proactively in today’s reality of employment insecurity and the world of extinction of many familiar jobs and occupations now and even more so in the future. This new needed capacity was entrepreneurial intelligence – a competence trained and developed through the acquisition of various skills, knowledge and attitudes through quality non-formal adult education.

Von der Europäischen Union finanziert. Die geäußerten Ansichten und Meinungen entsprechen jedoch ausschließlich denen des Autors bzw. der Autoren und spiegeln nicht zwingend die der Europäischen Union oder der Europäischen Exekutivagentur für Bildung und Kultur (EACEA) wider. Weder die Europäische Union noch die EACEA können dafür verantwortlich gemacht werden.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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HANDBOOK on entrepreneurial learning, intelligence and mind-set development for adults

HANDBOOK on entrepreneurial learning, intelligence and mind-set development for adults

Description

This handbook is envisioned as an innovative publication with relevant topics useful for development of entrepreneurial mind-set of seniors and adults with fewer opportunities. The publication brings all up-to-date findings and descriptions of different core domains, characteristics, behaviours and skills that together form an entrepreneurial mind-set and drive action. It serves as a resource for adult educators when organising further education, training and mentoring of beneficiaries in changing their mind-sets and inspiring new era entrepreneurship.

The handbook covers all important and necessary topics related to the involvement of seniors and adult with fewer opportunities in entrepreneurial mind-set education and skill development. It is considered to be a unique all-in-one guide developed in cooperation with highly profiled experts in the field of entrepreneurship that are engaged in the project, adult education centres/institutions, the entrepreneurial companies, organisations and hubs, together with the expert entrepreneurship educators and adult educators and psychologists. All the engaged experts, are experienced in NFE and adult education for entrepreneurship, thus bringing a combination of strong expertise in the topic.

Considering the importance of working in a dynamic world, the innovative part of this handbook consists of detailed explanation of 21st century skills in developing entrepreneurial mind-set of adults with fewer opportunities. This includes up to date information on the needs of digital skills, media and literacy skills, innovation and creativity, critical thinking, as well as non-cognitive skills lying under the entrepreneurial mind-set development for seniors and adults.

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Entrepreneurship education for seniors and adults with fewer opportunities

Entrepreneurship education for seniors and adults with fewer opportunities

Project Overview

Project: Entrepreneurship education for seniors and adults with fewer opportunities

Duration: 01.11.2020 – 30.09.2022

Reference Nr. 2020-1-NL01-KA204-064748

Grant Amount: 279,848 EUR

Donor: Nationaal Agentschap Erasmus+ Onderwijs & Training, the Netherlands National Agency for the Erasmus+ programme.

What's About

The motivation for this project was to equip seniors and adults with fewer opportunities with a set of skills needed for personal development in the areas of entrepreneurial intelligence and creating (self-)employment opportunities, proactively in today’s reality of employment insecurity and the world of extinction of many familiar jobs and occupations now and even more so in the future. This new needed capacity was entrepreneurial intelligence – a competence trained and developed through the acquisition of various skills, knowledge and attitudes through quality non-formal adult education. After analysing the results, we identified the following needs and problems in our communities:

– the difficulty to find quality permanent employment for adults and seniors with fewer opportunities.

– the difficulty to open new businesses as most of the new businesses started in our communities are not innovative and therefore do not generate sufficient profit or even close quite soon.

– not enough opportunities for our beneficiaries to develop their entrepreneurial intelligence and thus their personal, social and cognitive skills, especially those of innovation and creativity in entrepreneurship.

– inadequate and inaccessible educational opportunities, either online or offline, for developing entrepreneurial intelligence and related creativity in entrepreneurship.

– only 7 out of 42 adult educators (17%) have previous experience with enterprises and use this experience and expertise in their non-formal adult education for employability and entrepreneurship of adults (and seniors) with fewer opportunities.

– only 4 out of 42 (9%) adult educators working with beneficiaries in NF adult education have received any kind of training on the intrapersonal aspect of entrepreneurial intelligence and feel confident in organising educational activities on this topic.

To empower seniors and adults with fewer opportunities in entrepreneurial intelligence and mind-set development (including intrapersonal and interpersonal social-emotional and creativity competences), through development of inspiring, innovative and up-to-date handbook and e-learning courses.

Empower our adult educators and improve knowledge management of adult education institutions andorganisations in theory and practice for building competences of adult educators in entrepreneurial mind-set and creativity in entrepreneurship development of citizens, through training courses, innovative Guidebook with curriculum and e-learning courses for adult educators’ training.

Exchange good practices and further develop quality strategic partnership among partners from 5 Europeancountries with different realities in regards to citizens’ self-employment and entrepreneurship.

The project proves to be needed/innovative in our communities, also thanks to the transnational contribution ofpartners from different European countries with their different approaches on motivating target groups.

All partners have good practices to showcase and we will learn from each other but also disseminate the learned outcomes to others back home and promote the different practices of entrepreneurship education in adult learning programmes.

The Goal

Project partners are:

STICHTING MASTERPEACE, Netherlands
Centre for Non-formal education and Lifelong learning (CNELL), Serbia
Association for improvement of modern living skills “Realization”, Croatia
Youth Power Germany e.V., Germany
UNG KRAFT / Youth Power Sweden
Company for professional rehabilitation and employment of persons with disabilities ITECCION, Serbia

Project RESULT

With this project, our beneficiaries were able to improve their entrepreneurial intelligence and attitude. We also empowered more adult educators to organise innovative and up-to-date entrepreneurial learning activities within non-formal adult education.

Project directly impacted organisational capacities to work on providing quality entrepreneurship education to mainly seniors and adults with fewer opportunities. The project positively and long-lasting effects on partner organisations increased their capacity and competences for providing quality adult education activities for entrepreneurial learning based on innovative approach.

With all intellectual outputs, we influenced the change and improvement of existing entrepreneurship adult NFE methodologies and programmes, at first among partner organisations of the project, and later among partner of ours and their wider network of collaborators.

In this project was developed 5 Intellectual outputs: O1: Handbook on Entrepreneurial learning; O2: Guidebookwith Curriculum: “Empowering adult educators for Entrepreneurial learning, Intelligence and mind-setdevelopment among seniors and adults with fewer opportunities”; O3: E-learning course for educators:

“Entrepreneurial learning, Intelligence and mind-set development education for seniors and adults with feweropportunities”; O4: E-learning course for seniors, adults / beneficiaries: “IntRApersonal aspect of Entrepreneurial mind-set development”; O5: E-learning course for seniors, adults / beneficiaries: “Leadership, Teamwork and other intERpersonal skills within Entrepreneurial mind-set development”; 4 transnational meetings; we conducted 5 Multiplier events E1,E2,E3,E4,E5; We implemented 1 LTTA (C1) Training of trainers.

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