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Competent Entrepreneur
Competitive Employee

Competent Entrepreneur - Competitive Employee

   
Project Background    
The achievement and improvement of key competences is a very important part within the educational programmes of the European Union (see Lisbon strategy, Bologna declaration). Developments on the labour market show an increasing importance of generic skills and key competences. Often the relation between specific and generic competences is not well balanced. Studies have shown that within a total competence basket firm-specific competences only take 30 percent whereas competences that are common to a wide range of organisations represent 70 percent. There is no doubt that people would benefit from receiving explicit training in generic skills, but there is substantially less agreement concerning the best way in which to bring this about.
Aims

The CECE project seeks to address this problem by using innovative results from two previous EU projects. On the one hand CECE works with software to detect the competences of entrepreneurs (developed within the project ASTRA) on the other hand there are training modules for 14 soft skills (developed within the EQUAL project). CECE combines the best elements of both products and at the same time the screening tool has been adapted to detect soft skills of employees, unemployed people and students as well as competences of entrepreneurs. We succeeded in the aim of our project to give every person the opportunity to chart his/her generic competences in a screening tool and to upgrade those competences when necessary. We adapted and translated specific training programmes and methodology for 11 different competences.

Outcomes    
  • a screening tool to detect to what extent the 11 competences are already present, available in Czech, Dutch, English, Polish and Spanish.
  • 22 training modules for soft competences (a beginner and advanced level for each of the 11 competences), available in Czech, Dutch, English, Polish and Spanish.
  • a trainer handbook for every module to learn other trainers how to use the training material, available in Czech, Dutch, English, Polish and Spanish.
  • a workbook per module for the training participants, available in Czech, Dutch, English, Polish and Spanish.
  • a DVD for every competence with realistic situations about the competence: good and bad examples, available in Czech, Dutch, English, Polish and Spanish.
  • a DVD guide how to use the DVD in a didactical way, available in Czech, Dutch, English, Polish and Spanish.
Impact    
Via the detection of the soft/generic competences, employees and unemployed people will have an insight in their own knowledge and skills. The software will automatically generate a training proposal for the beneficiaries to follow a training programme on basic level or advanced level. In this training programme, participants will develop one or more key competences. Entrepreneurs as well as employees, students and unemployed people can upgrade their soft skills and thus increase their success and competitiveness on the labour market.