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Name: Entrepreneurship is the Key to Succes

Entrepreneurship is the process of starting a business but can also mean an active attitude towards work, society, politics, and all the other fields of a citizen life. Developing entrepreneurship means therefore working on people active participation in their life and strengthen their ability to start new business, improve their working life, being a proactive citizen and consequently cope with the socioeconomic challenges that Europe is facing nowadays.

According to the Global Challenge Insight Report, the 5 vital skills required for future jobs are the following: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management and coordination with others.

The project’s aim is to develop a tool for improvement of those skills and to support disvantaged young adults in acquiring entrepreneurial competences and to build entrepreneurial mind-set.

Primary target group – young disvantaged adults, especially NEETs in age 18-30.

Secondary target group – adult educators/ facilitators including career advisors working in the non-formal education settings.

   • EKS simulation game – focus on improvement of skills through offering 5 scenarios. It will reproduce virtual, plausible or hypothetical situations in which the players can use and imorove their skills. The scenarios the game will be result of a phase of research conducted by experts in the field of psychology, counselling,vocational guidance, coaching, etc.
• EKS Didactic Handbook – will support the participants in using the game during their entrepreneurship learning.
 

Info

№: 2019-1-DK01-KA204-060180
Programme: Erasmus+, KA2, Cooperation for Innovation and Exchange of Good Practices, Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education
Duration: 01.10.2019 – 30.09.2021
Partners:
Know and Can Association – Bulgaria;
INSTALOFI LEVANTE SL – Spain;
STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI – Poland;
E&D KNOWLEDGE CONSULTING, LDA – Portugal;
KAINOTOMIA I SIA EE – Greece:
CSI CENTER FOR SOCILA INNOVATION LTD – Cyprus;
LABC S.R.L. – Italy

Website: https://eks.erasmus.site/

 

 

EKS Products and results

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After 2 years of hard and fruitful work, we are happy to present you the final versions of the products created within the “Entrepreneurship is the key to success” project! The EKS project aims to develop a tool for improvement of the 5 vital skills required for future jobs: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management and coordination with others and to support disvantaged young adults in acquiring entrepreneurial competences and to build entrepreneurial mind-set.

Here is a short overview of the main products we developed during the past 2 years:

EKS Newsletter 4 September 2021

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EKS logoEKS project newsletter №4 could be downloaded from here!

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Bulgarian EKS Multiplier event

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Know and Can Association organized the Bulgarian multiplier event in the frame of EKS project on 9th September 2021 in Ramada by Wyndham Sofia City Center, shortly after the pilot versions of the simulation game and didactic handbook and products were finalized and piloted. The event was organized in real environment, respecting all antiepidemic government measures currently in force. Due to the high interest in the event and the restrictions on the number of people attending face to face gatherings, the participants were divided into two smaller groups.

EKS Final partners meeting in Torino, Italy (7-8.9.2021)

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Thankfully the COVID-19 situation permitted the final EKS project partners meeting to go forward physically. All partners were very happy and satisfied to be meeting after two years of mutual work which primarily consisted of online meetings solely. During the meeting, all COVID safety measures were diligently followed up. Thanks to our Italian project partners - LABC, the meeting was concluded in a smooth and successful way for all participants.

The piloting of EKS game has started

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EKS logoWith the onset of the hot summer months came the long-awaited launch of the game for developing entrepreneurial skills, created within the project "Entrepreneurship is the key to success"! We are very pleased to announce that the demo version of the game is now available in English and Bulgarian and we invite you to become part of its improvement and finalization!

EKS Newsletter 3 April 2021

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EKS logoEKS project newsletter №3 could be downloaded from here!

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Entrepreneurship is the key to success - Online meeting

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EKS logoOn March 18, 2021, Know and Can Association took part in an online partnership meeting within the EKS project - Entrepreneurship is the key to success. According to the original plan, the event was planned to take place in sunny Valencia, but the continuing complicated international situation unfortunately thwarted the plans of the partners.
Thanks to the active participation and professionalism of all partners, the progress of the project was discussed in detail during the meeting, as well as the following steps for the consortium were discussed in detail:

EKS Didactic handbook - Trailer

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EKS logoAlongside the intensive work on finalizing the beta version of the simulation game, the EKS project partners are almost ready with the development of the second project product – the EKS Didactic Handbook. While frequently the content of some training materials, curriculums and textbooks could be perceived as dry and old-fashioned, the EKS Handbook creates quite the opposite feeling!

It is an attractive, appealing and useful educational tool for both learners and trainers which main aim is to support and improve their experience in using the game during the entrepreneurship learning process. On one hand, it will help the players to dive deeper in the world of entrepreneurial skills and their importance and on another – it will familiarize the adult trainers with the gamification as a didactic tool and will support them in applying the game in individual or group settings.