BACKGROUND.Global competition has generated the need among all the enterprises, especially SMEs, to adjust their strategies for survival.As a result of T4 actions, the interviewed stakeholders complained of lack of skills and knowledge to allow companies have a dedicated person to facilitate the transfer of modern technologies, products and services so as to accelerate the development for survival on the market in the fight with big companies.It has so emerged that the proposed occupation, the Transnational Technology Transfer Manager, is mandatory for the development strategy. TTTM must possess, apart form the professional technical abilities, competences which should enable European harmonization (leadership, economic and legislative knowledge, ability to mediate between social groups with different cultures etc). OBJECTIVES.The general objective of T4 was to increase and upgrade skills and competences of European SMEs in the field of transnational technology transfer and accelerate public and private stakeholder organizations in increasing their responsiveness to SMEs skills needs. T4 aimed at 1)minding the gap between SMEs and transnational technology innovation processes;2)establishing a permanent, transparent, recognition oriented, evolving&multi-actor training mechanism which will allow to respond to the needs of SME's;3)increasing institutional capacity and awareness of responsible actors of industrial, technological and training policies about the role of transnational technology transfer for SMEs and extend cooperation between SMEs, Research, Service Providers and VET&Training System actors.TARGET GROUPS included:SMEs:managers,technical and administrative staff,consultants;Cluster Organizations:technical staff,consultants;R&D Centre / Universities:researchers,technical staff;Technology Parks and Business Development Centres: technical staff,consultants;Economic Development Bodies:policy officers,management,technical staff;VET and Higher Education:trainers, researchers, technical staff, administrative staff, learners.The directly involved target groups members was 650 units, but due to multiple information in various media channels, we consider that the number can be 1000.ACTIVITIES.In order to achieve the planned objectives, T4 has been structured so as to obtain the four IOs which were implemented by 7 complementary partners combining training, technology, outreach to SMEs and policy anchoring capacities.The 8 Work-packages were:WP1-Project Management;WP2-Quality Management;WP3-Evaluation and Risk Management;WP4-Dissemination and Exploitation;WP5-inding the GAP: SMEs& TTT (M2-M6) created a knowledge base about current successful practices which combined technology transfer&training methods to support these processes and further strengthen them; WP6-Mapping skills needs&Develop Competence Profile(M6-M11) which focused on mapping the competences of the TTTM; WP7(M11-M24) focused on producing the curriculum and in the development and testing of the TTTM Training Program;WP8(M20-M26) delivered 2 sets of final guidelines, one for policy levels and the second one for VET system & Innovation system actors and a template of Memorandum of Understanding in order to set up of a TTT Training Cooperation Network.RESULTS. Main project results can be summarized as follows:1)SMEs increased awareness level about technology transfer processes at transnational level;2)Training&Service Providers increased knowledge about how to simplify technology transfer processes;3)available training (including competence profile, training course structure, content and self-enrollment E-learning platform);4)increased capacity of the educational/training/service side to respond to educational/training needs with a more close to market and understandable language;5)participation of the governance level&VET System actors to the information and awareness raising initiatives;6)increased knowledge about how developed training can be transformed & readapted according to technological trends and SMEs needs(and how formal VET training course can be anchored to more situational learning settings based on SMEs daily operations);7)achieving of a good collaboration between partners;8)harmonization of know-how transfer between them and familiarity with cultural specifics of involved countries.The impact of our short-term activities was to raise awareness of the need to develop such a business within companies, creating a win-win collaboration. In a long terms perspective the project aims at creating a winning cooperation mechanism between training&educational system and European SMEs which will contribute to adopt transnational technology transfer as a means to accelerate growth and development.A major benefit consisted in observing the enthusiasm and satisfaction of the contacted stakeholders in finding the solution to solve the problem they had been struggling with for a long time, namely surviving on a market dominated by the big companies.

"General OverviewMARHER's objective is to identify key competences of a new professional, innovative and creative figure, able to make the most out of values and stories: the Heritage Marketer Heritage Marketing can take a fundamental role, connecting our past to the future. Valorising Corporate Heritage does not mean simply telling stories but ""communicating through stories"", that is, creating narrative universes through which a company enters into an emphatic relationship with people, managing to arouse emotions in public. Markets are increasingly becoming narrative arenas where, alongside the intrinsic quality of products, the ability of brands and companies to know how to evoke a universe of stories, traditions and values (cultural and ethical) is fundamental to stand out among the competitors. Therefore, being able to craft stories and portraying company values is becoming a crucial skill to master to exert an attractive value towards increasingly attentive and aware customers. Project Objectives1) Definition of a NEW PROFESSIONAL FIGURE: the Heritage Marketer2) Creative and INNOVATIVE TRAINING, able to support SMEs to promote, in terms of marketing and brand reputation, their own history and their brands and products- Enhancing competences in order to develop the Heritage Marketer figure;- Creating a training course on strategies and tools for Heritage Marketing, problems and solutions linked to heritage marketing and corporate storytelling- Creating training focused on narratology and corporate reputation, corporate traditions, heritage valorisation. 3) IMPROVE EMPLOYABILITY of low-skilled and unemployed and recently graduated who, in the periodic employment rankings of recent graduates, are systematically in the last positions. Improve unemployed people's chance to compete in the job market.4)IMPROVE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF EU COMPANIES by enhancing what characterizes and differentiates Europe from other continents and markets: its secular history.Interested Target GroupsThe project wants to elaborate on new teaching materials aimed at three crucial components of the entrepreneurial ecosystem: young potential entrepreneurs, professionals within business support organizations (accelerators, incubators, development agencies) and current entrepreneurs. Intellectual Outputs OverviewIO1 includes a GEOGRAPHICAL MAP of Europe to show users simple sheet describing best cases of Marketing valorisation, the storytelling of corporate stories and tradition applied to enterprises in EU in order to use them as show-cases of heritage marketing potential at local/national and international level. It will aim at showing different practices and supporting potential participants in advancing their professional development. Moreover, the consortium will gather open access information on which of the existing models have been implemented in order to successfully apply storytelling in SMEs. IO2 is the definition of the guidelines for a skill-set of fundamental competences for the new figure of the Heritage Marketer’s CV. Skills-set means here a combination of hard and soft skills that are necessary to build a series of competences, knowledge and skills useful for the Heritage Marketer to work properly on content to boost brands, products and services. The guidelines for the skills-set will have as a basis the competences identified by the most recent studies on heritage storytelling, heritage valorisation for content production.IO3 will consist of the creation of a module learning for the definition of hard and soft skills that are fundamental for the new Heritage Marketing figure.From the point of view of the learning activities, the module will be based on case studies of Heritage valorisation analysis of European firms collected during the project (IO1). The final assessment at the end of the module will consist of the evaluation of a heritage content produced by the students, replacing more traditional methods of assessment (questionnaires, essays etc.)"

<< Background >>Digital literacy, together with literacy and numeracy, is nowadays seen as a fundamental asset whose lack is considered to be almost invalidating. Almost every day new digital technologies are developed or evolve from existing ones, changing human behavior in social, educational, working and many other fields. The pace at which innovation moves is so fast that it leaves behind some portions of the population, especially older population groups or the people that for some reason left their studies at an early age. Nevertheless, even in highly educated population groups digital knowledge is often at a very low or inexistent level. One of the fields that has undergone an exceptional amount of changes caused by this phenomenon called DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, is labor field, in which the ever-growing use of digital technologies is creating the risk for some sectors to be left behind and to become obsolete and outdated.<< Objectives >>OFFSET intends to foster the acquisition of digital and entrepreneurial skills for handcrafting entrepreneurs and handicraftsmen, affecting both the educational and digital society themes of the “Europe 2020 Strategy” COM(2010) 2020 final, and following the indications given by the “Digital Education Action Plan” COM(2018) 22 final.To achieve what stated above, OFFSET will respond to the following general and specific objectives:GENERAL OBJECTIVE:- Facilitate the passage through the digital transformation for handcrafting entrepreneurs (present and potential), making them able to use digital skills and transforming them into digital artisans, through their participation to VET trainings.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:1 - Train the trainers: Producing a collection of best practices and educational materials to fill digital and entrepreneurial knowledge gaps for handcrafting VET trainers and business coaches 2 - Create/enhance handcrafting entrepreneurs’ digital and entrepreneurial skills and competencies3 - Improve the awareness of present handcrafting entrepreneurs and investors on the possibilities offered by digital technologies and instruments implementation in handcrafting sector<< Implementation >>OFFSET project includes 4 Work Packages, namely:Work Package 1 - Project managementA1.1 Financial GuidelinesA1.2 Partner AgreementsA1.3 Communication Board IdentificationA1.4 Selection of TargetsA1.5 Monitoring and Evaluation PlanA1.6 Project ReportingA1.7 Conflict resolutionsA1.8 Planning of Future MeetingsWork Package 2 - Communication and DisseminationA2.1 Communication and Dissemination planA2.2 Communication templates and graphicsA2.3 Project websiteA2.4 Communication an Dissemination activitiesWork Package 3 - Development of Project Result 1: OFFSET – Training Course MaterialA3.1 Creation of course content: Digitalized Business - Handcrafting. Materials for present and future handcrafting entrepreneursA3.2 Creation of course content: Digitalized Business - Handcrafting. Materials for Startup coaches/Entrepreneurship TrainersA3.3 Learning Activity Pilot Test - Course ContentsWork Package 4 - Development of Project Result 2: OFFSET - ToolsetA4.1 Platform tool A - Interactive LibraryA4.2 Platform tool B - Profiling TestA4.3 Platform tool C - MOOC on digitalized entrepreneurship – Handcrafting Industry A4.4 Learning Activity Pilot Test - Platform Testing<< Results >>OFFSET activities will produce primarily 2 Project Results:Project Result 1: OFFSET – Training Course MaterialThe Consortium will design and elaborate the training materials concerning handcrafting industry digitalization for startup coaches/entrepreneurial trainers and handcrafting entrepreneurs.The teaching/training materials will focus on potential or current entrepreneurs and on training the trainers, empowering their ability to grow startups and help startup owners from the very beginning to the potential access to markets.This will ensure a different take on training for entrepreneurship, as the innovation is trying to reach the ambitious target of shaping entrepreneurs for the future through their teachers and trainers.Project Result 2: OFFSET - ToolsetIt will be an integrated toolset made of three different interactive tools with active synergy with each other.1) Self-Evaluation Tool on Handcrafting Industry Digitalization2) Interactive Library3) OFFSET Learning PlatformThe consortium will also organize 5 Multiplier Events which will take place in the last month of the project and will be as follows:M1: OFFSET - Presentation of the Online Course and Toolset on Digitalization for Handcrafting Industry – SPAIN (40 participants)M2: OFFSET - Presentation of the Online Course and Toolset on Digitalization for Handcrafting Industry – ITALY (40 participants)M3: OFFSET - Presentation of the Online Course and Toolset on Digitalization for Handcrafting Industry – BELGIUM (20 participants)M4: OFFSET - Presentation of the Online Course and Toolset on Digitalization for Handcrafting Industry – NETHERLAND (20 participants)M5: OFFSET - Presentation of the Online Course and Toolset on Digitalization for Handcrafting Industry – CYPRUS (20 participants)Lastly the partnership will organize 2 Learning, Teaching and Training Activities which will serve as piloting activities for Project Results:C1: Pilot course for OFFSET’s training materials (Italy)C2: Pilot training and testing of OFFSET’s tools (Cyprus)

"The project TRANSITION wishes to create and innovate teaching materials aimed at three crucial components of the entrepreneurial ecosystem: potential startup founders, entrepreneurial trainers/coaches working in business support organizations(accelerators, incubators, development agencies) and current entrepreneurs. These three categories need to be up to date with innovative technology trends and Blockchain is probably the one tech revolution that most probably will change all the aspects of the business world forever.All three actors of the entrepreneurial ecosystem must take part in the digital evolution of processes (production, certification, payment, delivery, etc.) thus the adoption of Digital Ledger technologies and Blockchain among these categories will affect the system in three complementary ways: 1) Potential entrepreneurs will integrate a general and fundamental knowledge of entrepreneurship skills and competencies (Second Intellectual Output) while at the same time being acquainted with the new opportunities offered by this new technology to start a new business following this trend or integrating the technology into their own idea. 2) Current entrepreneurs will enlarge their opportunity horizon about what DLTs can do for their current business, improving the versatility and growth capability of the enterprise ecosystem.3) Entrepreneurial trainers and coaches will have new teaching material to better train their startups/young entrepreneurs, causing this improvement in knowledge to resonate not only on people already committed to starting a business but also toward the future generation of startup founders.The project will produce three outputs, namely:IO1 - Blockchain Knowledge SpaceIt will be a structured repository of useful ""knowledge items"" concerning Blockchain, both as a technology and as an application in the different business areas.Items will be divided by different parameters: type of item (i.e. article, academic paper, MOOC, etc.) language, difficulty level(Basic, intermediate, advanced. Difficulty level of each item will be assessed by the scientific committee) and any other parameter will be deemed useful by the consortium. The BKS will have a manual filter to select the most interesting items for the user by selecting one or more of the aforementioned parameters.O2 Entrepreneurial Starter SetThe Entrepreneurial Starter Set will be the foundation for the training course to align anyone interested in the fundamental competencies to develop when starting a business.This will be a general purpose part of the training material produced by this project, specially produced for potential entrepreneurs to make sure they can foster or refresh a very well defined skill set to survive when making their first step on the market. O3 The Blockchain Entrepreneur KitThe output will be the core activity of the scientific partners of TRANSITION who, along with the VET provider, will design and elaborate the training materials concerning Blockchain for startup coaches / Entrepreneurial trainers, current and new entrepreneurs. The teaching/training materials will give a different take on who is the main target of the teaching/training effort by training the trainers, empowering their ability to grow startups and help startup owners from the very beginning to the potential accession to markets. Current entrepreneurs, on the other hand, will be encouraged to learn how blockchain is used and how they could use it to improve or reshape completely their business model."

Cultural entrepreneurship is an important issue in European policies Framework. It takes in exam two main problems that affect the Union: lack of occupation and necessity of innovation. The main objective of the European Union is to create occupation and new skills in order to tackle with labour market’s demands as is written in “A new skills agenda for Europe”. RESONANT aims at answering to these requests and focus on the creation of new skills in cultural and entrepreneurial field.GENERAL OBJECTIVES Increase the competences on the figure of the cultural entrepreneur at European level. To achieve this goal, we need to define some specific objectives.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES SO1: Find the common definition of the figure of cultural entrepreneur at European levelSO2: Contribute to enhance fundamental key skills related to cultural entrepreneurship, in order to tackle with labour’s market challengesSO3: Increase awareness about cultural entrepreneurship through innovative and digital mediaPROJECT ACTIVITIES RESULTS will be clearly related to the specific objectives of the project.SO1 refers to IO1: Report about the study doneSO2 refers to IO2: Creation of a training courseSO3 refers to IO3: Creation of an online platform with best practices related to cultural entrepreneurship PARTNERS: 5 partners from 4 countries will take part to this project:●IC-GEOSS, Vet provider, Slovenia ●AKEP, Greece●Aarhus University, BTECH Department, Denmark●FVB- The Hive, Italy ●SINEGLOSSA, Italy TARGET GROUPS-Aspiring entrepreneurs/start-ups interested in the cultural field-Neets interested in the cultural field/ who want to be entrepreneurs.Description of ACTIVITIES: - project management activities- quality assurance and evaluation activities- analysis of cultural entrepreneurs’ skills: drawing report- RESONANT training programme - Online Interactive map of Best Practices - Interactive (E-learning) Training platform- project web site (design and programming, content)- testing and piloting activities with the learning activity- dissemination activities- communication plan METHODOLOGY: The partnership was defined keeping in mind every partner’s specific skills. The dissemination and communication parts, and the management parts were guaranteed for the whole duration of the project.IMPACT: increased competences on cultural entrepreneurship, want to-be entrepreneurs, workers, learners, trainers and teachers; increased awareness of participants (at local, national, European level) about opportunities and innovative trends (as the application of the principles)PARTICIPANTS: number of participants from the target group and potential beneficiaries: at least 250