This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.

This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.

"This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.Mobility consortium descriptionThis consortium is a national partnership formed by Kırklareli University, Çanakkale 18 Mart University and Ankara Provincial Directorate of Family and Social Policies. The purpose of the Consortium is to strengthen the cooperation between higher education institutions and the business world in the field of Health and Patient Care and to train competent and qualified personnel that the health sector needs in the field of patient care. In this context, by using the experience gained from the Open and Distance Education for Palliative Care at Home project, numbered 2019-1-TR01-KA204-077109, carried out by Kırklareli University, the output (online course modules produced within the scope of the project) and links with foreign project partners, It is aimed a total of 10 - 15 students from the partner universities to benefit from international mobility in different countries of Europe by planning a minimum of 2 months of Physical Internship abroad supported by virtual components, and 8 personnel participating in 1 Week Physical Abroad training mobility supported by virtual components. It is also planned to give a ""Palliative Care Training Certificate"" to the participants who successfully complete the mobility. With the support of the consortium, it is aimed to bring together the theoretical education of the students of Health Sciences Faculties and Vocational Schools Nursing and Patient Care departments of related higher education institutions with on-the-job experience abroad, and quality and healthy employment with on-site learning. Consortium partners have joint contribution and responsibility in the execution of the project. The project will last 26 months. Kırklareli University will be the coordinator with its leadership experience in Open and Distance Education for Palliative Care at Home Project.The employability of the participants, who will benefit from the consortium, will increase in their professional business life and contribute to their personal development, foreign language, mutual communication, intercultural learning, and self-confidence. In our consortium, which will provide the opportunity to complete academic and applied learning within the process of higher education, the theoretical information needed in the ever-changing business world will be observed closely and on-site, and updates in higher education will be provided. This process will also contribute to the different collaborations between the academic and business world at the European level, and the quality assurance of the Consortium will be subjected to a joint evaluation process by the participating and collaborative institutions. For this, the commissions will be formed from people to be chosen from participating and collaborating organizations who will be observers in the functional and healthy execution of the process.Participating higher education institutions will ensure that the mobility of the participants is recognized and, as stated above, the participants who successfully complete the mobility will be given a ""Palliative Care Training Certificate"". Participants and associates will take joint responsibility in the dissemination activities of the consortium. Dissemination will be made through the media organs of the partner institutions, conferences to be held, and social sharing platforms, and a special web page will be prepared for the consortium, and the application, announcement, activities and outputs will be shared with the public."

"<< Background >>SME entrs. (especially younger ones) want to contribute to society within a commercially driven business that does follow a social approach. Such specific blended approach towards mixed for-profit & non-profit approach is however not taught anywhere. It’s either pure entrepreneurship or social economy, but no Vocational education and training (VET) offers blended social commercial entrepreneurship as part of their curriculum in Business and Entrepreneurship subjects. Needs are confirmed by the recent report on State of the social enterprises 2018 . As a coordinator we are also addressing the above mentioned problem as stated in the latest EU report for implementation of social enterprises in Bulgaria. Further analysis on this topic are also reviewed and the proposal is dully aligned on their conclusions (see attached Need analysis document with reference and justification of the need). For example: Social supermarkets are a great example of a social enterprise. A place where food is sold to low-income communities at a discount price. That food is either donated by food suppliers or purchased very cheaply. Something like that can be very helpful for the local society. Another example is: Social Crowdfunding is another very interesting and very modern type of social enterprise. Using the internet people can find everything. Why not use it to get funding for their ideas? There are always people willing to help others make their dreams come true. Building a social crowdfunding platform is a truly helpful way to make some profit and give people a chance to help each other. Another possibility is the Micro-Lending. Creating a platform that allows people to lend money to the entrepreneur that would not, otherwise, get the funding they need. Starting a business is difficult without an original capital especially in Balkan countries. The increase of the functional social commercial enterprises will further extend the opportunities for labour market inclusion of people with disabilities (evident from February 2019 global report of Int. Labour organisation ).AIMS AND OBJECTIVESThe core idea is to develop pan-European social commercial entrepreneurial training curriculum (EQF level 4 &5) & course material for VET that assists VET students in Business and SME entrepreneurs to engage in & ""absorb"" social entrepreneurship aspects throughout VET entire business workflow. This will be accompanied with a mobile training app that will make use of a range of educative case studies, interconnected with theoretical approaches.This project aims to foster the innovative approach by embedding the commercial social entrepreneurship as a concept into the recent entrepreneurial courses in VET for students in the field of Business and Entrepreneurship. In this respect we use the definitions of soc. entrepreneurship range from broad to narrow.-Broad: soc. entrepreneurship refers to innovative activity with soc. objective in for-profit sector (e.g., Dees & Anderson, 2003) or corporate soc. entrepreneurship (e.g., Austin, Leonard, Reficco & Wei-Skillern, 2004); or non-profit sector, or across sectors (hybrid structural forms which mix for-profit & non-profit approaches (Dees, 1998)).-Narrow: soc. entrepreneurship refers to phenomenon of applying business expertise & market-based skills in the non-profit sector such as when non-profit organizations develop innovative approaches to earn income (Thompson, 2002).Apart from commercial businesses that want to introduce social economy aspects within their businesses, the project also addresses pure social enterprises as COM-SET outcomes are relevant for them as well. To avoid any confusion, when we talk about “social enterprises”, we use the SBI (Social Business Initiative) definition: A social enterprise is an operator in the social economy whose main objective is to have a social impact rather than make a profit for their owners or shareholders. N.B. see section Annexes - Need analysis document.<< Objectives >>TARGET GROUPSThe project mainly targets VET educational staff (lecturers, teachers, trainers) that aim to integrate social economy aspects within mainstream entrepreneurial VET training courses. Core beneficiaries are: VET students, VET trainers, SME decision makers (entrepreneurs) that aim to integrate a social approach within their current business practices. In general, social entrs. are more likely to be younger, more highly educated & perceive legitimation of entrs. in society differently than their 100% commercial counterparts. As an outcome from the establishment and functioning of more commercially oriented social enterprises the people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups (i.e. NEETs) are addressed since they benefit from the paradigm change (employability) and the social economy sector.SOLUTIONCOM-SET project will embed concepts of Social Business Initiative (Social economy & entrepreneurship ) with commercial entrepreneurship, embracing characteristics of a social enterprise. COM-SET will thrive to stimulate young entrepreneurs and also those, who are studying at VET centers in the field of Business and Entrepreneurship to manage companies in a more open & responsible manner, in particular involving also employees from disadvantages groups (disabilities, minorities, low skilled, etc.).Expected Impact:-Blended commercial/soc. entrepreneurship is relevant to all EU countries.-A multitude of SME entrs. can embed soc. elements in their business.-Blended entrepreneurship aspect is recognised increasingly as a crucial impact for Europe's SME entreprises.<< Implementation >>For the realisation of the project results the following activities and leading roles are planned:PR1 - Methodologies and approaches:-Brainstorming-Best/good practices-Focus groups with stakeholders and end-usersKey performance indicators:-KPI 1: Knowledge and good practice widely spread among HE pedagogical staff on EU level-KPI 2: Minimum 60 students/4 lecturers / country-KPI 3: Minimum 10 case studies per country-KPI 4: Minimum 5 publications per country where the case studies could be disseminated-KPI 5: Minimum 500 visitors of project portal-KPI 6: Spread of innovative approaches from country to country and their integration into common practice-KPI 7: Pedagogical staff in the learning communities to become aware, ready and willing to practice project results (e.g. collaborative pedagogical methods, one-to-one support etc.)-KPI 8: Visible engagement of local communities-KPI 9: Provision of guidance, services and mechanisms that supports implementation of social commercial entrepreneurship deployed by Vocational education institutions.PR1 Tasks:A1: Preparation of detailed outline for curriculum development according to ECVET principles - lead by P4 with contribution by all partners (M1 - M4)A2: Development of draft version of the modular content - lead by P1 with specific contribution by each partner as stated below (M5 - M12)Module 1: lead by P1Module 2: lead by P2Module 3: lead by P2Module 4: lead by P4Module 5: lead by P5Module 6: lead by P3Module 7: lead by P5A3: Development of pre- and post- assessment tests - each author of module (M12-M13)A4: Validation by representatives of National Advisory Board members and focus groups - lead by each partner (M13-M14)A5: Pilot implementation in Bulgaria, Turkey and Belgium - lead by P1+P2 (TR), P3 (BG) and P4 (BE) - covered by project management and implementation budget (M15-M20)A6: Gathering feedback and analysis for optimisation - lead by P1 (M21-22)PR2: Applied methodology:The technical framework of both the online and mobile platform will be based on a Moodle framework which will be customised and localised, while also supportive plugins will be developed. This allows for third parties to easily upload COM-SET training and course material to their own learning platforms.Technical characteristics/features of the portal:•Internet-based platform (Moodle (LMS)/Mobile app combination), developed with state-of-art and modern Web development frameworks and tools.•Understandable functionality with low learning curve•Secure communication and access channels•Full activity logging for accountability and error fixing•Multiple languages (EN, BG, TR, NL)PR2; Tasks:A1: Development of case studies – lead by P4 in cooperation by all partners (M3- M11)A2 Development of alpha/beta and final versions of the mobile app – lead by P4 and P3 + contribution by all partners on validation of the version (M6 - M11)A3: Gathering feedback from the NAB and customisation by each partner of the content based on the national requirements, circumstances and cultural differences – all partners (M12-M24)A4: Uploading of case studies and resources onto the mobile app (three testing cycles: alpha, beta and optimised versions) – lead by P3 (M12-M13)A5: Gathering feedback from the piloting participants by each partner and implementation of relevant changes – all partners to P4 (M21-M22)A6: Ongoing maintenance – lead by P4 (till M24)PR3: Applied methodology:-Storyboards-Capturing and editing-Mastering and productionPR3: Tasks:A1 - Development of story board of the videos - each partner will develop at least 2 videos (8 in total for the partnership) - M6-M8A2 - Design and recording of the videos - each responsible partner, while overall lead by P2 who will do the editing and mastering of each video - M9-M10A3 - Video editing and mastering - by P2 only! - M13-14A4 - Gathering feedback and optimisation - lead by P4 + contribution by all<< Results >>PR1: Pan-European multilingual set of “injectable social commercial entrepreneurial training modules”, following a predefined curriculum / course material & handbook for VET.This output will define the curriculum outline on the blended entrepreneurship which needs to be blendable with existing business and entrepreneurship courses across the participating educational institutions. Equally, it needs to support projects of social entrepreneurship. Important also is that the curriculum needs to address the large diversity in functions and activities that are expected of the future blended social/commercial entrepreneurs, while it also needs to consider the large diversity of different types of social/commercial enterprises that may exist in different domains, each with their specificities.The created curriculum will be fine-tuned throughout the project duration, using an iterative approach.The social entrepreneurship curriculum will contain those sections from mainstream entrepreneurial/strategy training where social aspects will be considered.Draft curricula (ELEMENTS OF INNOVATION):Module 1: Economics (micro/macro) - social and profitable1.1 Blended social entrepreneurship as a factor of production)1.2 The role of social economy in regional development1.3 The influence of social entrepreneurship on social economyModule 2: International management (international markets and cultures; multinational organisation; international payments) - sustainability2.1 International trade and sustainable development2.2 Management of multi-culturesModule 3: Marketing (sales, prices, consumers) - fair pricing3.1 E-marketing and fair pricing3.2 Consumer behavior & salesModule 4: Business management of the social enterprise (managing technologies, innovation, resources management, sustainable development, CSR, ethics and accountability) - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)4.1 The role of CSR as a conflict management Instrument4.2 Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Business Management4.3 Resources management, creativity & innovationModule 5: Operations management (supply chain, innovation, IPR, Staff, Strategy) - Circular economy 5.1 Staffing in circular economy5.2 Organizing and structuring for international operationsModule 6: Managing accounting & finances (management accounting, ROI, Balance) - Social balance 6.1 Start-up financing for Social balance6.2 The role of management accounting to identify events for social balance6.3 The role of social economy in corporate finance6.4 The influence of social balance on corporate efficiency6.5 The role of financial statements in decision process for social balanceModule 7: Legislation (regulatory framework, national policies, entrepreneurship legislation)7.1 The role of legislation on intellectual property rights to encourage the entrepreneurs to employ people with disabilities7.2 The role of incentives and tax exemptions to encourage the entrepreneurs.PR2: Range of educative case studies on social commercial entrepreneurship interconnected with theoretical approaches, hosted via a multilingual online and mobile training platform/apps (Android and iOS based)We plan to develop a range of educative case studies, which will be connected to theoretical approaches from the ECVET based learning outcomes of the modular training curriculum and course, developed in PR1. Those case studies will help our learners to further understand and reflect on the specific topics from the curriculum, which needs further illustration via best practice examples.PR3: Engaging videos (storytelling) of good practices by socially oriented commercial entrepreneurs for each moduleThe aim of the engaging videos (storytelling) is to present structured and real cases and good practices by socially oriented entrepreneurs. Each video will be related to particular module from PR1."