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Co-organiser FREE projects's take on their contribution to Web 2.0 for social inclusionTRANSCRIPT
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
LINKS-UP Final Conference
Web 2.0 for social inclusion: Bridging Practices and Policies
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
Contents
1. FREE – Fostering Return to Employment through
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2. FREE and Social Inclusion
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
www.spi.pt/free
FREE is a 2 years project that started October 2009 and will end in
September 2011, coordinated by SPI. The project is founded by the
Lifelong Learning Portuguese National Agency, sub-program
Leonardo da Vinci – Transfer of Innovation.
1. The FREE project
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
www.spi.pt/free
The FREE project is made up of a partnership of 6 partners across Europe.
SPI - Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (PT)EDEN - European Distance and E-Learning Network (UK)NVF - National Training Fund - Guidance Services Support Unit (CZ)Castlereagh Entreprises (UK)HRDC - Hellenic Reginal Development Center (GR)Inveslan (ES)
1. The FREE project
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
www.spi.pt/free
FREE – Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity - is seeking to
provide counsellors, tutors, trainers and other professionals working with unemployed individuals, with a
web-based interactive tool designed to improve their hard and soft skills. This will allow them to provide a
better service when dealing with those who are unemployed, especially age groups <25 and >45 with lower
qualifications.
1. Project objectives
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
Measure the needs of the target groups through an analysis of the entrepreneurship, creativity and
innovation skills to be promoted;
Adapt and complete the interactive tool of a former project: EVEC;
Develop a web-based Interactive and multilingual tool that integrates different types of resources;
Develop a support handbook for users;
Disseminate and exploit the project results.
www.spi.pt/free
1. Strategic objectives
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
Target group
Counsellors, tutors, trainers and other professionals working with unemployed people
Beneficiaries
Unemployed individuals with lower qualifications in age groups <25 and >45
www.spi.pt/free
1. FREE’s target group
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
1. The interactive tool
www.facebook.com/freeproject
The FREE tool will provide four main instruments to the target groups:
1)Materials on entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation through which the development of hard skills for the
target groups and beneficiaries will be possible;
2)A guidance methodology in relation to entrepreneurship and techniques to help the target groups promote
creativity and innovation among the beneficiaries;
3)Provision of business tools (such as business plans, etc.);
4)Success cases (case studies) of unemployed people who created their own businesses.
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
1. The interactive tool
http://www.spi.pt/free/interactive_tool/
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
http://www.spi.pt/free/interactive_tool/
1. The interactive tool
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
• FREE foster employment through entrepreneurship
• FREE aims to provide opportunities for people at risk for being socially excluded (as unemployed)
• FREE promotes learning through life and up-skilling people
• FREE inspires social inclusion for the most vulnerable groups in today’s society: young and senior people
• FREE tries to educate the people dealing with these vulnerable groups so they can educate the people at risk
for social exclusion
www.facebook.com/freeproject
2. Free and social inclusion
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
www.facebook.com/freeproject
2. Free and social inclusion
• FREE is another inspiring example of how the Web 2.0 can positively contribute to better the situation for
vulnerable groups in our society.
• Endless possibilities of reaching people at risk now – using the Web 2.0.
• The good that the Web 2.0 and e-learning courses can do – we are only seeing the beginning!
Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
2009-1-PT1-LEO05-03245, FREE
SPI: Mette Christensen - [email protected]