Entrepreneurship as Self-employment tool. Skills and qualifications within ECVET.

The report on the implementation of the recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 on the establishment of a European Credit System for Vocational Education and training, published in June 2014, shows limited progress of the implementation of ECVET at national level, as it was not considered by all EU member states to be equally useful. Finland has a long experience with ECVET, which is implemented in all vocational qualification since August 2014. In Greece, a national approach is in the phase of implementation as a test supporting the establishment of ECVET for transnational mobility, still in the initial phase. In Poland, ECVET is still in a preparatory phase, with current discussion but no formal decision taken so far. In Spain, the priority was given to the development of a national qualification framework before making any decision on ECVET. We have thus 4 countries with 4 distinct levels of implementation of EU recommendations. Also, answering the priority of the European Area of Skills and Qualification, VETin will seek for the exchange of best practices of continuing VET and the design of a common qualification by fostering the adoption of EU existing tools in the educational offer.The main objective of VETin project is to develop a training itinerary for entrepreneurship / small businesses management following ECVET recommendations and thus applicable in different countries. The VETin qualification will describe the units and learning outcomes corresponding to the entrepreneur profile, and determine the required knowledge, skills and competences to become an entrepreneur. It will allow flexibility in the training pathway thanks to assessment solutions and a modular structure. It will be summarised in a Europass Certificate Supplement to make it easily understood over Europe.Operational objectives of the project will be:- Promote high quality entrepreneurship and self-employment over Europe- Define a profile of entrepreneur with associated knowledge, skills and competences.- Develop a proposal for the application of ECVET system to non-formal and informal entrepreneurial education, with the definition of a Europass and learning pathway that fits to the learning outcomes system.- Set up recommendations for the application of ECVET in continuous learning in partners’ countries.- Establish and promote methods of e-learning and app-learning, as well as the use of OER thanks to an online platform- Promote mobility in adult learning and contribute to the European Area of Skills and QualificationsThe main target groups are unemployed people, women and men, including migrants and people at risk of social exclusion, that are seeking for new opportunities in the changing labour market of the post-crisis era. They lack preparation to reach an entrepreneurial profile, and are lost among a large offer of training without clear awareness of their training needs and possible pathways. No age limit is applicable; however SELF-VET expects to target people aged 30-49 with a medium or long work experience, which consists of the largest block of active population potentially interested in self-employment. This project should necessarily be developed at EU level, as it seeks for the standardization of the Entrepreneurship Qualification inside the EU.