EPWESS

Entrepreneurship Support Services

Why we did it

According to EC, the 50% of European enterprises close down during the first five years from their opening. That is, the mortality rate of enterprises is high and has a huge limitation impact on capacity of creating quality and sustainable employment.

Who did it

As the online tool was developed in co-operation with six countries, the knowledge about the systems of all these countries was integrated in the development process.

What is the aim

The EPWESS project aims to influence positively on the quality of training of professionals providing social services of support to entrepreneurs by detecting skills which those professionals have to have for providing quality support to new entrepreneurs. To identify these skills and define the professional profile of the personnel working in the entities for the support to entrepreneurs.

Identification Output: IO2 Professional profile and ECVET allocations

This tool intend to define the required professional profile of those practitioners who are supporting the entrepreneurs in the process of creation of a company. Through this output, any practitioner can validate the competences in a well described process, and connecting it with the ECVET system.

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Identification Output: IO4 Training Guide

During the process of mapping the partnership gathered questionnaires from entrepreneurship support services aiming to detect the main training needs of these operators related to the Key Activities proposed. As result of this research, we elaborated this output in order to support them to improve the skills and knowledge at job through the selection of those with a higher average among the countries investigated.

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