Entrepreneurial Skills for Woman in a Digital World

This project hopes to make a modest contribution to alleviating one of the most pressing challenges in Europe - relevant skills for employability. Today knowledge-based economies require people with higher skills. Problem solving, teamwork, creativity, organization, communication, leadership and digital competences are some of the core importance soft skills for current European labour markets. Development of the entrepreneurial skills is identified as competence for lifelong learning by the European Commission and it is seen as a gateway to employment and social inclusion throughout Europe. The non-formal education has flourished in recent years due to its flexibility, needs-based approach and complementarity to formal education. Thus, entrepreneurial skills development in non-formal education settings could be an effective alternative to increase employability of woman including with fewer opportunities and strengthen their competitiveness on the job market. Inspired by the wish to contribute to the above mentioned problem solving association Rural Internet Access Points together with partner organizations from Germany, Slovenia and Greece initiated a project aimed at developing entrepreneurship educational pathway for disadvantaged woman through applying project -based with integrated ICT learning approach in non-formal adult education institutions. The specific objectives are: 1. To support educators of adult non-formal education institutions in learning and training activities, in the acquisition and use of entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and qualifications to facilitate disadvantaged woman in personal development and employability; 2. Through exchanging the practices among partner organizations to develop a three step activity which includes designing learning strategy, creating training program and digital credential of skills of entrepreneurial competences by using Open Badge technology to promote greater employability of disadvantaged woman. 3. To support improvements in quality and innovation in learning and training systems, institutions and practices. 4. Enhance the attractiveness of entrepreneurial education and training in adult non-formal education institutions. Target audience: - 40 educators working at non-formal adult education institutions (adult training centres, librarians, social workers, telecentre employees, community centres, woman NGOs, networking organizations); - 200 disadvantaged women (unemployed, living in rural areas, single mothers, disabled, migrants, widows, etc.). As one of the innovative way to contribute to low entrepreneurial skill and ability is to use practical experiential learning models and real life entrepreneurial activity. This initiative differs from predominant approaches as the project strategy is focused on the implementation of entrepreneurial learning by using project-based with integrated ICT learning approach at adult non-formal education institutions. The synthesis of ICT and project-based learning promotes a pragmatic approach for strengthening entrepreneurial skills such as creativity, initiative, tenacity, teamwork, problem solving as well as take advantage of information, communication and technology (ICT) opportunities. By participating in an entrepreneurial learning activity both educators of adult non-formal education institutions and woman will be able to determine certain theme of the project, its context, format the team, project instruments, work time allocation, identification of real problem, forming alternative problem solving, designing process, to use different ICT tools in the project, presenting the product produced, measuring the success of the project, etc.