TREND - Training Refugees in Entrepreneurial skills using digital devices SECTORS INVOLVED: AE – Norway (Lead), AE –Belgium and Germany, HE - Ireland, AE- Greece CARACTERISTICS TARGET GROUP: Entrepreneurship trainers working- or wishing to work with refugees This project answers to which need(s): There is not enough entrepreneurial trainers with skills to train refugee entrepreneurs Existing entrepreneurship training is not well suited to meet the needs of potential refugee entrepreneurs Main aim: Make Self-employment a viable option for refugees in Europe by training entrepreneurial trainer and using digital devices. Concrete objectives (linked to concrete expected results): • Build on skills that refugees bring to Europe, Job creation through self-employment • Make visible what refugees have to offer through mobile profiling with multi-media micro CVs • Provide training materials/content focused on the needs of refugees using a blended learning approach • Apply train the trainers concept to virally increase the number of entrepreneur trainers with skills to train refugees • Provide trainers with attractive tools using mobile learning techniques • Linking trainers and refugees using digital communication devices (mobile and web applications) • Promoting entrepreneurship as job creating solution • Raise awareness of the enormous potential of positive impact refugees can have on society and thus change attitudes towards refugees in society