European consortium awarded funding to boost entrepreneurial skills through an innovative approach based on the history of music
A consortium of six European organizations from Slovakia, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary is combining its members’ efforts and experience in a project entitled “The Sound of Business – Leveraging the Entrepreneurial Competences of Adults to Extenuate the Business Knowledge Divide” (2018-1-SK01-KA204-046325). The general objective of the project is:
- to provide trainers with practical tools leading to an innovative method of training related to basic and transversal skills, innovative managerial competencies and entrepreneurial spirit
- to use and promote a non-formal approach based on art and music
- to stimulate self-employment initiatives among adults
- to improve managerial skills of the adults to foster the awareness and importance of innovation and lifelong learning
Funded through the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Strategic Partnership program (Adult education), the two-year project is running from October 2018 until September 2020.
Through a mix of partners with a wide range of different expertise, consisting of a university, a chamber of commerce, a training institution, a consultancy company, a competence certification organization and a not for profit association promoting non-formal education, the consortium will complete the following actions:
1. Develop training tools to improve the basic/transversal skills of adults, that will be collected in an e-manual available online and on a learning platform
2. Create a learning platform, serving as a depository for interactive learning materials, including textbooks, videos, music, assessments and other reference links on entrepreneurship, non-formal education, music and adult work
3. Create a Learning Documentary, which will be a high-quality video documentary learning tool, putting together the contents of the training tools with the non-formal approach based on the history of rock music
4. Develop a Protocol for certification of competencies for validating the competences developed using the innovative learning approach developed by The Sound of Business project
Project partners:
- ICEP – Institute of European Certification of Personnel s.r.o. – Slovakia
- PRISM – PROMOZIONE INTERNAZIONALE SICILIA-MONDO – Italy
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry Csongrad County – Hungary
- European Center for Quality OOD – Bulgaria
- Academy of Entrepreneurship Astiki Etaireia – Greece
- SPOLEZNA AKADEMIA NAUK – Poland
