EntreComp for Teachers (ECT) aims to improve the quality (and inclusiveness) of school education through making direct policy and practice based links between the professionalization of teachers, educators and leaders and how this can be supported by developing the capacity of teachers to deliver entrepreneurship education through their teaching. The ‘content’ of a professional skill framework will be drawn from the EntreComp framework, designed to support learners in developing the kinds of creative and critical thinking skills they need for life and employment. This framework is chosen because it meets European-wide policy imperatives, offers consistency to the quality assurance of the project and enables teachers to tailor and align their own professional learning to student focused outcomes. This will be the first time in Europe that a teacher focused skills framework has been developed to address the high priority yet difficult-to-address teaching area of entrepreneurship education. Project Outcomes: 1. Co-constructed and tested EntreComp for Teachers - a Professional Entrepreneurial Skills Framework for Teachers inspired by EntreComp, developed in close consultation with learners, teachers, school leaders, community and business 2. Clear understanding of how a professional entrepreneurial competences framework is applicable to all curriculum areas 3. Demonstration of the effectiveness of the principle of Deliberate Practice in teaching to drive effective CPS and support lifelong learning mind-sets for teachers 4. Training model for teachers through initial teacher education and continuing professional development using an innovative and collaborative social learning media environment (loopme.io) 5. A policy toolkit outlining why and how the PESF can be embedded into existing ITE and CPD at national and regional level, developed in consultation with European and national/regional policy-makers

This project is about supporting actors in all sectors of the lifelong learning system to enhance the development, validation and recognition of the entrepreneurship key competence across lifelong learning. It will do this by creating the Entrepreneurship360 platform as a one-stop-shop to provide guidance, collate tools, share practice, learn through online training and connect those working on the practical implementation of EntreComp into learning and work. The project includes partners from, and will actively engage with wider networks of practitioners and organisations from, formal education, youth organisations, employers and business/start-up. This project will drive the implementation of EntreComp as a tool for lifelong learning sectors to place a focus on the transversal skills needed in the modern workforce - addressing skills gaps and mismatches to support social inclusion and economic growth. The objectives of the project derive directly from EntreComp research carried out by partners with the European Commission – we will target lifelong learning organisations and practitioners working across Europe to access and engage with the Entrepreneurship360 platform as a one-stop-shop for the peer networks, guidance, tools, resources and MOOC based training that they need to understand and use the EntreComp competence framework. The project will:• Mobilise engagement across lifelong learning to understand the relevance of EntreComp• Connect practitioners and organisations interested in or actively using the EntreComp framework• Empower learning organisations and practitioners to use EntreComp as a tool to drive entrepreneurial learning design, assessment and recognition• Tailor guidance to specific contexts through how-to guides on the potential of EntreComp for emerging areas of potential - initially (1) Employers - HR and recruitment (2) Youthwork and (3) Assessment and certification/recognition• Map progress of the EntreComp community [evidenced through an extensive baseline survey and follow-up survey after 30 months to assess progress and impact]The project will target practitioners, organisations and system level actors across lifelong learning. It involves partners from across lifelong learning sectors, and this will drive active engagement with networks from formal education, youth and non-formal sector, employers/business and start-up support organisations. Specific partners will take the lead on recommending and implementing networking approaches with specific sectors of lifelong learning. This drive up the quantity and quality of design, implementation, assessment, transparency and recognition of the entrepreneurship key competence. It will target governance systems, professional networks, learning organisations, business,employers and practitioners involved in the design and delivery of learning in any setting. This project seeks to show how EntreComp can be part of a transnational solution to the needs identified above. While the focus will be on Europe, the project will reach out to worldwide networks, both sharing and showcasing the value of EU initiatives and EU funding.This will be the first action focused one-stop-shop focusing solely on how EntreComp can drive key competence development across lifelong learning sectors. It will be innovative in its focus on all sectors of lifelong learning from formal education through to HR recruitment and start-up. The project partners can capitalise on their strong links and networks into education, youth, employment and business sectors to create a holistic and highly relevant online one-stop-shop to support entrepreneurship key competence through implementation of EntreComp. The intellectual outputs will include the platform which will be the one-stop-shop at the centre of project and bringing together all the deliverables for the engaged participants including (IO2) a comprehensive toolbox of practices, tools and resources, (IO3) four tailored guides to support emerging areas of use for EntreComp e.g. recruitment or youthwork and areas where additional guidance is needed e.g. assessment and (IO4) a set of two MOOCs to provide a learning pathway for participants to engage and learn how to implement EntreComp. A project baseline and final survey of perceptions, understanding and usage will be designed and shared at the beginning of the project, and this will be repeated with participants, and correlated with the type of involvement they have chosen (mapped across five EntreComp goals). This will be the primary evaluation approach to map the progression of organisations actively using EntreComp to evidence a deeper and more sustainable use of EntreComp by practitioners, organisations and education systems engaged through the platform. This will ultimately drive more effective and higher quality development, assessment and recognition of the entrepreneurship key competence across lifelong learning in Europe.

Work-based learning in the cultural and creative sector has always been one of the most natural ways to learn or expand your understanding and to develop skills and competences. Based on this the overall aim of “Learn to Create – promoting Work-based Learning in Europe’s Cultural and Creative Industries” was to design and test a new work-based learning (WBL) programme in Europe’s Creative and Cultural Industries (CCIs). The cultural and creative industries sector (CCI) whose social and economic contribution to the EU as well as its highly dynamic and transformative character in the digital era have been recognised by the European Commission highlighting it as one of Europe’s emerging industries. Learn2Create partnership was composed of organizations that together represent the three areas the project matched and connected: CCI specialists, VET organisations, and organisations experienced in designing innovative and creative apprenticeships and work based learning. Six partner organisation (Foundationa ARTeria from Poland, Rinova Ltd from UK, Materahub from Italy, Dimitra from Greece, Innogate from Spain and RDA from Slovakia) believe that the modern, creative workplace is a powerful learning environment, with the potential to make vast contributions to employment, productivity and increasing economic competitiveness. This is why, as a Strategic Partnership in the field of VET, Learn2Create pursued its aims and objectives of developing a comprehensive and tailored approach to promote WBL in the CCI sector working directly with and providing specific support to companies and entrepreneurs from this sector and VET teachers and trainers. The specific objectives were: • To develop and provide a fresh and tailored conceptual model for effective WBL in CCI. • To design learning curriculum and course for training VET teachers and trainers how to prepare learners (trainees, apprentices, internships) for effective WBL in CCI sectors, how to support them and how to link with the CCI employers sustainably. • To test the blended training programme for VET teachers and trainers in piloting countries to assure and actively promote its replicability beyond the consortium and across other EU countries. • To provide CCI employers with guidance on how to set-up, structure and support effective and beneficial WBL opportunities to learners. • To link with CCI clusters, to test an innovative mentoring programme for CCI employers on how to set-up and support high quality WBL with their limited resources and with the help of clusters and cluster managers. The CCI sector is characterised by a series of peculiarities that need to be taken into account and that result directly in specific needs of the target groups (VET teachers and CCI employers): • VET teachers and educators play a crucial role in assuring high quality in WBL, but in such dynamic sectors as the CCI, continuous professional development is important to assure that up-to-date support to learners and a robust sector specific link between education and the labour market is given. • The CCI sector is dominated by micro-enterprises, including freelancers, with limited financial, organisational and human capital. CCI employers need to be provided with better support on how to offer high quality WBL opportunities and how to support and manage them effectively within their limited resources. • The impact of globalisation is being increasingly felt in the CCI sector with businesses being involved in international value chains. This creates the need to better prepare VET teachers and educators how to equip students with a set of skills to enable them to work in an international environment. In the same sense, CCI employers and company tutors need to better be prepared for how to offer WBL opportunities for talented workforce that might come from across Europe. Learn2Creste developed following results: • the development of training needs analysis and best practices focusing what VET educators miss in order to better promote WBL for CCI for the job market (IO1) • a training package (combining non formal learning and online learning) for VET Educators to foster their competences and skills on promotion of WBL in CCI (IO2 - IO3 - IO4) • a manual for CCI professionals to better understand how to run WBL in their companies and how to increase the benefit for them (IO5) • the development of a community of VET experts and creative professionals able to create connection and business/VET partnership during and after the project maximizing the mobility prospects and the impact (IO4, IO5, IO6 - UX Comepndium)

"<< Background >>The main motivation behind the presentation of this project is the idea, stated in the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, that ""investing in entrepreneurship education is one of the highest return investments Europe can make"", combined with the conviction that soft-skills hide the key to unlock additional potential in young professionals and entrepreneurs. As a result, we have seen the multiplication of initiatives promoting entrepreneurial learning across the board, from vocational education and training organisations to non-formal entrepreneurial learning in youth organisations. Today, a substantial body of evidence demonstrates that possessing soft skills predict a wide range of life outcomes, in particular employability, career advancement, and entrepreneurial success (Kerr, 2018, Krueger, 2015, Lackéus, 2015).Hard skills have gradually lost importance in favor of soft skills, especially with the proliferation of artificial intelligence, which have proven to be a crucial asset in terms of employability and entrepreneurial success. In fact, the comprehensive Youth Work and Entrepreneurial Learning report (2016), demonstrates that entrepreneurial learning and its associated soft skill development, is particularly powerful when taking place in non-formal and informal settings, including youth work. SOFTIMPROVE intends to translate it into actionable learning strategies and provide employed and unemployed professionals and aspiring and confirmed entrepreneurs with the soft skills necessary for employability, career and business success while creating synergies between vocational education and training and non-formal entrepreneurial learning settings.In a nutshell, this project is justified in an ever-changing economic environment, which is in an evolution process towards a new professional framework that is more reliant on soft-skills and interpersonal competences. It responds to the need of young professionals and confirmed/aspiring entrepreneurs of enhancing their employability and their probabilities of economic success. More importantly, it responds to the need of training the best professionals for tomorrow, to expand their potential and capabilities to adapt to the new challenges posed by the economic environment.<< Objectives >>The goal of SoftImprove is to provide professionals and entrepreneurs with the knowledge and practice of soft skills needed to enhance their employability, improve their career prospects or increase their chance of success as entrepreneurs. The specific objectives of the project are:• O1: Characterize soft skills, decipher the role they play in improving employability, career and business and assess professionals and entrepreneurs’ needs and expectations of training on soft skills;• O2: Specify and develop a methodology blending in-person teaching and distance learning to train employed and unemployed professionals and aspiring and confirmed entrepreneurs on soft skills along with tools to monitor and assess the trainees’ progress in soft skills;• O3: Develop a face-to-face training course on soft skills combining theoretical knowledge, coaching, gamification and peer-to-peer feedbacks to be tested in pilot sessions, evaluated and refined;• O4: Construct a distance learning platform on soft skills made up of adapted as well as specifically developed contents;• O5: Promote a generation of professionals and entrepreneurs well-aware of and well trained on soft skills with the message than soft skills are as important as hard skills, and that soft skills can be improved through learning.<< Implementation >>In order to fulfill the first and second objective, that of delving into the state of the art of Soft-Skills and the elaboration of a methodology to give training, the partners will: map soft-skills, seek for feedback on stakeholders about their way of considering soft-skills and investigate their impact in terms of employability, career, and business as well as the needs of the target young professionals and entrepreneurs in soft-skills. Regarding the objective of developing the training modules and tools, the activities planned include: the development of the training modules, the creation of a soft-skill use library and the Experimentation and assessment of the training program. Thirdly, the activities planned to build the distance learning platform are: defining the functional specifications of the platform and set it up, and the adaptation of the content to the characteristics of the platform as well as the creation of new content specific to the platform (i.e. video testimonies). Finally, the platform will be tested and improved with the feedback received.Planned additional activities are: -Strategic steering, quality control and project monitoring-Administrative and financial management-Dissemination activities through, but not only, multiplier eventsAll these activities are aimed to provide the target group with training in soft-skills, which will ultimately enhance their employability and their chances of success when starting a business.<< Results >>At the knowledge level, the project will result in a common terminology of soft skills and an in-depth assessment of their impacts on employability, career, and business, as well as a mapping of the soft skills needed and expected by professionals and entrepreneurs. At the educational level, the project will design, develop and implement a gamified, blended soft skill development programme, applied to professionals seeking jobs or career progress and entrepreneurs starting or running their own enterprises or aspiring entrepreneurs looking to turn ideas into action. The programme will include: (i) a list of intended learning outcomes drawn upon both professionals and entrepreneurs’ needs and expectations and partners’ knowledge and experience to be used to define the learning content in terms of topics as well as levels; (ii) The set of modules to be taught in face-to-face sessions made up of theoretical knowledge, quizzes, coaching sessions, serious games, and peer-to-peer assessment ; and (iii) A distance learning platform providing dynamic and interactive training on soft skills with embedded incentives (gamification), practical simulations and ongoing feed-back along with a library of concrete cases for experiential learning.Finally, at the dissemination level, the project will create a website presenting soft skills notably, but not exclusively in terms of lever for employability and entrepreneurship, the project objectives, content and partners; and five multiplier events held in Belgium, France, Germany, Iceland and Spain to present the project outcomes, discuss their scientific and pedagogical relevance and promote their take-up at the academic as well as business levels."

<< Background >>The fundamental aim of AHEH is to improve the long-term prospects of our Arts and Humanities graduates and to equip them with the tools and confidence they need to succeed. Through a comprehensive programme of activities, we collaboratively researched a perceived skills gap between academia and business to inform the development and pilot-testing of an innovative training programme, tailored to the specific needs, sensibilities and learning style preferences of HEI arts and humanities students.<< Objectives >>1.Better align HEI entrepreneurship training to EntreComp. Create a training programme to up-skill HEI staff, embed delivery & translation within Arts & Humanities (A&H) faculties via dedicated Hubs2.Foster business/HEI collaboration to meet stakeholder needs, improve understanding of entrepreneurship & expand knowledge exchange & RD&I. 3.Foster business innovation through engagement with A&H students4.Develop & mentor A&H students through AHEH 5.Improve student entrepreneurial ability<< Implementation >>Research to ensure alignment with training needs specific to A&H. Inc. surveys, literature review, case studies & interviews. This informed the development of AHEH challenge-based training programme, reflecting preferred active learning style identified. Partners collaborated with stakeholders to film challenges for learners. Training was pilot-tested & evaluated at national & EU level to enable further refinement. Enterprise partner engagement was invaluable to give ‘in the moment’ feedback.<< Results >>•Multi-method research activity & contextual review report•Training programme, framework, resources and trainer & user manuals •Pilot training at EU & national level & reports•AHEH online platform, contents, platform map & manual•Webinar series•7 Entrepreneurship Hubs for A&H students in partner HEIs•Externally-set challenges•Dissemination assets, resources & report•Exploitation plan & manual for Hubs•Quality manual & reports•Project Management reports/agreements