Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Competences Assessment Alliance

"The ability to act & think entrepreneurially is a crucial endowment in today’s knowledge-based society. Universities & enterprises take on important roles for fostering entrepreneurial competence development. To facilitate this, the EC has provided educators & trainers with a “reference methodology” that is based on a wide entrepreneurship definition (“creating value for others”) – the Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp). However, an operational setting that allows to “capture"" (wider) entrepreneurial competence profiles of learners has not been established yet. As a result, HEIs & businesses lack a coherent instrumental basis to A) assess individual entrepreneurial competences (students, employees) & B) accurately address specific competence development needs by education & training interventions as a response to the assessment results.The Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Competences Assessment Alliance (EICAA) is devoted to bridge this gap & will create such instrumental basis integrated into a new digital platform.EICAA resources will be developed for application in Higher Education & the business sector. These are:I. a revised EE methodology relying, challenging, & going beyond EntreCompII. a rubric system & assessment instrument (“Monitor”) operationalising I.III. an entrepreneurial teaching & training intervention repository rooted on I.IV. An OER digital platform which integrates II. & the III. & is able to: - generate automated results for the entrepreneurial competence check of learners - suggest learning / training interventions as response to specific competence needs V. a strategy to combine EICAA solutions into other initiatives in the field to allow for a holistic perspectiveEICAA will be realised as inter-disciplinary 3-year HEI-Business collaboration (4 HEI, 4 SME, 1 Research Instit., & Assoc. Partner) & is expected to unfold impact in 5 EU countries by reaching out to 15.000+ students, 30+ educators, & 150+ employees."