Skills required and obstacles to expect as a new Entrepreneur

“ETC.4SE – eTraining Centre for Social Entrepreneurs” is a two-year (2017 - 2019) European project which aims to develop an online training centre in which adults can find support in setting up their own social enterprise. In order to define the e-Training Centre’s contents and understand the relevant training needs, the project consortium investigated the skills and competences of adults in the partner countries. The document intends to be a compilation of the information collected by all partners in the national reports in order to have an overview of the state of art of social entrepreneurship in the participating countries. Based on this information the consortium will now define the training curriculum, the contents and the digital tools to be developed for the online training course.

Conclusions

Based on the management model implemented in the social economy sector, the project focuses on the work for the improvement of certain generic skills, such as active entrepreneurship, critical thinking and digital competences, using the theoretical bases of social economy to work the collaborative spirit, and inclusive entrepreneurial thinking. In this sense and aiming to provide an effective and practical business tool for both trainers and learners the consortium will start now working in the development of the online training course that will consisting of didactic units and a simulation tool of business practices using the adapted Bridge Model technique. The business simulator is intended to provide learners with practical knowledge in order to have a first approach to the business realities. The ETC.4SE business simulator has the added value provided by the adaptation of the Bridge Model technique, by which it is possible to guide learners through the process of creating a social enterprise through an interactive tool composed of different phases: the users will be entering data on the business he/she wants to develop and will receive feedback with ideas and information on successful practices implemented by other social entrepreneurs.

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Three months are passing by, many things we’ve done, many things happens. Places, people, actions, a

I would remember, Ivan come to pick me up to the airport, I have enough luggages it seeem I would move lifetime in Bulgaria. Then I meet my colleage, Ewa and in few days many other people from ICDET. I was a bit confused, tutor, mentor, coordinator, who are they, what we are going to do together? For sure, I would have time to discover it. Now one new thing was leading our schedule, Plovdiv and Stara Zagora, for one week we will start to discover Bulgaria moreover. Taking Bulgarian train, deal with non-common language speaking and have productive communication, discover moreover where youth association can be pushed over… just simple memories I brought home from this trip. I have no clear ideas, about ICDET was doing, but for sure I come back to Sofia with a small scenario about Bulgaria in my mind.

I was pawing to the idea to do something, to work, to produce. I can finally see on my schedule activities alike “Conduct a great interview”, “video making”. The chance to make with some associates, with them between informal speeches and first recording, we finally had many materials to work with. Strive with video editing and computes skills, nice to meet again here this field accompany me for many years. I have chance to go to practice the sport of my life, skiing, yes here is Sofia you can reach the slope with public transport, amazing! Nice to discover that my tutor is somehow involved in an European youth association, ESN, it’s boost for my mind I can develop here what II have done in my last years in Bergamo with AEGEE, intercultural environment, events, new things to learn. One month is already passing over.

A new week started, with a new word: V.E.T. yes, Vocational and Educational Training, never heard before but we have chance to meet, speak, film young students from Macedonia, here in Sofia to make practical part of their secondary studies, feel ashamed I would have had the same chance when I was eighteen. We had interesting time together… Time to leave again, this time to visit friend association, Alternativi International, in Blagoevgrad and once again to concentrate in our common passion skiing. Three days in Bansko were amazing. Now our team was getting richer of a new element, we were all looking forward for many weeks. Finally Seyma from Turkey, is with us! New person, new things, new challenge for all of us. Just in time to dealing with first worries, and first understandings in our team got bigger. Next week me and Ewa went to On Arrival Training, maybe best inspiration and motivating moment of the experience, about topics, activities and connections. I will bring home, yes home I will be back for Easter now, many inspiration, information and contacts surely useful for next future. Another month is passing by...

Coming back to Sofia and nicely knew some news were waiting for us, new people in our team, Interns from Eu-gen and a new group of VET Students. April deadline was getting closer and Volunteers’ personal projects must be done, the schedule must be filled, the number of activities and expectation getting higher. We are more people in the team, but we are also more aware and responsible about the things. The media team is moving to work at full regime, between new things to do, a schedule to follow and upcoming deadlines. The tension is getting higher; I can barely hold the shot.

The experience is at the turning point, our expectation can be change to the beginning, but it’s still on our self-assessment everything we can take with us to the end.

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The practice and knowledge that Erasmus+ offers us is undescribable

This is a project that for some of us can't be explained with plain words but with emotions, memories and knowledge that this project allowed us to have. The practice and knowledge that Erasmus+ offers us is undescribable, also the chance for us to meet new people and see new things is simply amazing.

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