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Low-threshold start-up support for disadvantaged adults - European Entrepreneurship Cafés

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-UK01-KA204-078997
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for adult education Funder Contribution: 269,615 EUR

Low-threshold start-up support for disadvantaged adults - European Entrepreneurship Cafés

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E-CAFE addresses some of the key areas of actions of the EU: Providing high quality learning opportunities for low-skilled/low qualified adults, supporting an entrepreneurial mindset as well as social inclusion.Individuals are increasingly forced to take over greater responsibility for advancing their competence and their careers. This shift from a traditional educational system and company directed learning environment to a more individualized focus poses particular challenges for low-skilled adults and migrants (ECIE 2019 – 14th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship). The potential of these groups in terms of business start-ups is undisputed - but they need targeted support to meet these challenges.E-CAFE makes an important contribution in this respect. In terms of a comprehensive, integrated and sustainable approach, the project not only develops target group-specific learning resources for the development of an entrepreneurial mindset and viable business concepts, but also creates inspiring learning environments with low entry barriers, positive role patterns and peer-to-peer learning.Experts are increasingly speaking of a renewed impending economic crisis. This crisis will hit the European economy - which has just largely recovered from the previous crisis - particularly hard. This is particularly true for low-qualified people, being especially vulnerable in this regard. While entrepreneurship support justifiably occupies a special position in European policies, special attention should especially be paid to the group of low-qualified adults.Based on our daily experience and many projects with adult education, social and economic inclusion bodies, start up consultants and support infrastructures, we are realising a great demand for this topic area. To achieve this, we have adapted the successful methodology of Language Cafes developed and sustainably established by our project partner BURGED to the context of Entrepreneurship. Building on this, we will develop a set of resources which picks up the target group at their respective level of knowledge and converts innovative learning concepts into simple language and makes them adaptable without hurdles.To guarantee the widest possible use, we involve adult education organisations, trainers, NGOs and support structures (incubators, chambers e.g.) in our work and enable them to professionalise themselves and their services. Specifically, we will:1- deveopl a comprehensive toolbox, which presents state of the art methods for the development of an Entrepreneurial Mindset and for business model development and designed in a supportive simple and easy to understand way (IO1)2- Establish 4 Entrepreneurship Cafes, providing a target group specific, inspiring, low-threshold learning environment and develop a blueprint handbook that enables other organisations beyond the participating partner regions to implement the methodologies (IO2)3-Develop an interactive APP (IO3) working as both, content dissemination platform as well as interactive exchange and calendar/location tool, ensuring wide and free access of all produced resourcesIn doing so, the project addresses the following needs of our target groups and will create sustainable impact for them:a) Low Qualified Adults as future entrepreneurs will develop an entrepreneurial mindset and gain the relevant knowledge to develop business ideas and implement sustainable business conceptsb) Adult education organisations, trainers, and support structures such as chambers or incubators are put in a position to sustainably professionalise their services and increase their impact. c) By actively supporting potential founders in setting up their companies, we create an important impact for the regional economy. Against the background of networked value chains across the EU this will also impact the economy at national and EU level.d) Project partners will acquire new strategies, tools and methods for improving the effectiveness of their services. They will improve their own competences in knowledge sharing and strategic relationship building and have a clear understanding of how to sustain and grow the project in the long term.The results of the project are basically universal and, in combination with our multidimensional impact and dissemination strategy, will have a sustainable effect beyond the partner regions.

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