Developing Innovation Agents for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs

Aims

• Matching companies need for young graduates with VET competencies

• Smoothing transition of young labor market entrants - with education with low employment rate - to the labor market by integrating world of work in the last year

• Enhancing better skills matching

• Stimulating higher competitiveness for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs in a global marketand opening them for new employee groups

Outcomes

• Innovative approaches to address skills mismatch with focus on building up European business and cross-cultural communication skills

• New opportunities for unemployed graduates, by providing cross culture training making the unemployed graduates employable in a new field: SMEs going global

• New ways of integrating real life assignments in training using knowledge gained from the Nordplus and EU projects: NOBANET (lead ARCADA), EU-VIP and ProVip (partner Tietgen)

• New ways of combining HE teaching methodology with VET methodology to foster employability

• Joint HE and VET adult learning module development in line with world of work's needs and expectations using of participatory approaches

Outcomes

• New ways of internationalization of VET by using ICT-based methodologies as virtual mobility tools developed for HEI

• Reinforced cooperation among partners from different countries and different sectors to the benefit of competence recognition

• Further develop methodologies to fight unemployment via integrating world of work in education to the benefit of local communities

• Improved practices to cater for the needs of unemployed groups dealing with cultural diversity

• Increased international capacity and competitiveness in SMEs: improved internationalization competences and internationalization strategies in SMEs

BelgiumArtesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen Hilde Hoefnagels hilde.hoefnagels@ap.be

SPACE network Luc Broes de.wegvinder@telenet.be

DenmarkTietgen (leading) Marie Keller Rademacher mrad@tietgen.dk

ItalyIstituto Formazione Operatori Aziendali (I.F.O.A.) Luca Boetti boetti@ifoa.it

Partners

LithuaniaV.A. Graiciuno aukstoji vadybos mokykla Rasa Bastyte vak@avm.lt

SpainFLORIDA UNIVERSITARIA Maria Amparo Camacho acamacho@florida-uni.es

The NetherlandsSPARK (IBCM) Charlene Miller c.miller@ibcmitrovica.eu

FinlandHögskolan Arcada Ab Eija Källström eija.kallstrom@arcada.fi

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