Self-Awareness – Self Efficacy – Coping with Uncertainty – Risk

Business Development

Learning Unit and Workload

The course is comprised of two units:

  • Unit 1: Understanding Business and Entrepreneurship
  • Unit 2: Understanding Customers Workload is about 10 hours.

Target Group

Those who want to found a company.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is easy to use and is written in a clear and precise language, it includes not only transcripts but short video lectures on the YouTube as well as quizzes and exercises. It does not need an academic background to accomplish.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: vision (developing an idea)

Certification Examination

No certification available.

Marketing

Learning Unit and Workload

The course is comprised of 7 playlists and consists of very short and entertaining video lectures as well as a detailed explanation of the content in transcripts focused on:

  • Playlist 1: Basic information about markets (6 videos app. 25 minutes)
  • Playlist 2: Product policy (17 videos app.68 minutes)
  • Playlist 3: Communication policy (8 videos app. 35 minutes)
  • Playlist 4: Pricing policy (10 videos app. 50 minutes)
  • Playlist 5: Distribution policy (9 videos app. 38 minutes)
  • Playlist 6: Marketing strategies (8 videos app. 28 minutes)
  • Playlist 7: Further concepts (7 videos app.42 minutes) Workload is 4,5 hours and 65 videos in total.

Target Group

University students or young career starters.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is easy to use and covers a lot of practical aspects in regard to marketing. It does not need an academic background to accomplish.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: vision (developing an idea); mobilizing resources (support)
  • Soft skills: self-awareness & self-efficacy; creativity

Certification Examination

No certification and examination available.

La valutazione dell’impatto sulle comunità locali

Learning Unit and Workload

Il Corso è composto da 5 moduli in forma scritta: Strumenti digitali per valutare l’impatto del lavoro con i giovani Raggiungimento del gruppo target Raccolta fondi Competenze formative Politica, influenza e impatto giovanili

Target Group

Il Corso si rivolge a tutte le persone interessate a valutare l’impatto del proprio lavoro sulla comunità e sui propri lavoratori. Può essere particolarmente utile nell’ambito dell’impresa sociale o no profit

Prerequisites/Necessary background

Il Corso è semplice e ben spiegato, è consigliato conoscere alcune nozioni fondamentali di marketing, come una conoscenza base di cosa è il mercato.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: Sviluppare un idea Mobilitare le risose Pianificazione e gestione Sostenibilità
  • Soft skills: Self-Awareness & Self Efficacy Creatività Competenze sociali Prendere l’iniziativa Gestire l’incertezza e il rischio

Certification Examination

Iscrivendosi è possibile scaricare una certificazione finale

Guide for not able-bodied persons on developing their own business or consultancy

Learning Unit and Workload

The course is comprised of 6 units focused on:

  • Unit 1: Your road to entrepreneurship
  • Unit 2: Assessing your entrepreneurship
  • Unit 3 Improving your entrepreneurship
  • Unit 4 Finding a mentor or coach
  • Unit 5 A step by step path for setting up a business
  • Unit 6 European landscape

Target Group

People with different kind of disabilities who want to become social entrepreneurs and do not know where to start.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is easy to use and is written in a clear and precise language. Every unit has several exercises to check the understanding of the content. Quizzes are only available for those with a full user account. It does not need an academic background to accomplish.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: vision (developing an idea), mobilizing resources (support)
  • Soft skills: self-awareness & self-efficacy, motivation and perseverance, learning through experience

Certification Examination

No certification and examination available.

Youth Move: Engine for EU Social Economy Traning Course

Learning Unit and Workload

The course contains 4 modules:

  • MODULE 1 – the world of social entrepreneurship: concept, business ideas, possibilities and motivations
  • MODULE 2 – looking for support: funding and organisational forms
  • MODULE 3 – tell your story: communication, marketing strategy and networking
  • MODULE 4 – get your project set up and running: the business plan

Each module consists of theoretical chapters, practical activities, glossary of key concepts, bibliography for those who want to expand their knowledge and final test. At the end of the course there is a summary describing main learning points about social entrepreneurship. Workload is non-available

Target Group

Youth workers/leaders of institutions who provide courses for young people as well as for any European young person who has an idea, and needs help and guidance to become a social entrepreneur.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is easy to use and is written in a clear and precise language. It does not need an academic background to accomplish.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: developing an idea, mobilizing resources (support), planning and management
  • Soft skills: creativity, taking the initiative, self-awareness and self-efficacy.

Certification Examination

 No certification available.

Corporate management

Learning Unit and Workload

The course is comprised of two playlists and consists of 18 short and entertaining animated videos as well as a detailed explanation of the content in the form of transcripts:

  • Playlist 1: Organisation forms (8 videos, app.35 minutes)
  • Playlist 2: Corporate strategies (10 videos, app. 47 minutes)

Workload is about 80 minutes.

Target Group

University students and young career starters.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is convenient to use and covers a lot of practical aspects in regard to corporate management. It does not need an academic background to accomplish.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: Spotting Opportunities & Valuing Ideas (developing an idea)
  • Soft skills: dealing with others, taking the initiative.

Certification Examination

No certification available.

E-TRIM – Intermediate Module within the INDEX project

Learning Unit and Workload

This is an e-learning course with approx. 20 hours of lessons and 20 hours of self-studying. Weekly lessons include lectures, thematic videos and performing test tasks. It contains 6 big units:

  1. Entrepreneurship and company organisation.
  2. Commercialization of innovative projects.
  3. Innovation marketing.
  4. Project and risk management.
  5. Policy, legal aspects and funding.
  6. Best practices of innovative companies’ operation.

Target Group

  • Senior executives or a development department managers of your enterprise interested in learning about innovation and technology transfer;
  • Professionals interested in commercialization of Industry 4.0-based solutions in his area of expertise; founders of high-technology start-ups;
  • Young engineers of the company who is already working on development of specific components of Industry 4.0 and their application or is interested in expanding the base of customers that develop smart technologies for new fields of application;
  • Educators teaching graduate and postgraduate courses focusing on commercialization and technology transfer; students or postgraduates interested in commercialization and technology transfer

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is easy to use and covers a lot of useful aspects in regard to starting an innovation company. It is rather theoretical though and requires an academic background to accomplish. 

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: vision (developing an idea), planning and management
  • Soft skills: creativity, dealing with others

Certification Examination

Final exam and certificate of attendance available.

Work with Microsoft Excel (University of Bremen)

Learning Unit and Workload

The course is comprised of 11 video lectures with exercises (including solutions)

Workload: 4 hours of video lectures and 80 hours of self-study.

  1. Mission statement of the course.
  2. Why Excel
  3. Setting up Excel
  4. Formatting
  5. Graphics
  6. Calculations
  7. Evaluating Excel Lists
  8. Merging Excel Lists
  9. Printing Excel folders
  10. Transfer Excel folders
  11. Notes on the e-exam

Target Group

University students or those who never worked with Excel (Excel beginners).

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is easy to use and easy to understand, it shows a lot of examples how to work with Excel. It does not need an academic background to accomplish.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: ICT-skills

Certification Examination

Exam and certification available for students of the University of Bremen only (3 credit points)

Start up as a sideline and get off to a flying start

Learning Unit and Workload

The course is comprised of 4 modules with 18 lectures in total. Appr. 2,5 hours of workload, includes tests to assess knowledge acquisition.

  • Module 1: Introduction (3 lectures: scripts and short videos)
  • Module 2: Inspiration and motivation (4 lectures: scripts and short videos)
  • Module 3: Business idea and business model (6 lectures: scripts and short videos)
  • Module 4: Business plan, funding and company foundation (5 lectures: scripts and practical advice)

Target Group

Those willing to start-up a company, as a sideline.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is convenient to use and easy to understand, it shows a lot of practical examples. It does not need an academic background to accomplish.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: vision; spotting opportunities and valuing ideas; mobilising resources (support), planning and management
  • Solf skills: self-awareness and self-efficacy; motivation & perseverance

Certification Examination

No final exam or certification available

Learning course “Project management

Learning Unit and Workload

The course includes such topics as basics of project management, tasks and organization, project environment and team, structural planning, effort estimation and process planning, scheduling, resources management, project controlling, multi-project management: It consists of 43 video lectures, approximately 30 minutes each, in total 21 hours and 69 hours of self-study course.

Target Group

The main target group of the course is graduating students and career starters and the goal is to explain what the project management is and how it works. It is more useful for those who are going to work in major companies with major projects, and rather not relevant for social enterprises but some of its contents could be of interest for start-upers.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is rather theoretical and requires a solid theoretical background in economics to understand the content. It is easy to use, a student can see a video lecture any time anywhere, but it requires a high discipline and a lot of time for self-study.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: planning and management;
  • Soft skills: coping with uncertainty & risk

Certification Examination

The course is free of charge, but the certificate can be obtained by the students of the University of Bremen only after accomplishing the final exam.

Social Entrepreneurship for Young Unemployed

Learning Unit and Workload

The course consist of 9 chapters:

  1. Introduction to Social Enterprise
  2. How to Start a Social Enterprise
  3. Legal Framework
  4. Creating a Business Model
  5. Marketing
  6. Fundraising
  7. Business Management
  8. Business Finance and Economics
  9. Business Plan

Target Group

Primary target group of this course is the NEETs. The course has also content for learining proffessionals. The course content is convinient to use everyone including PWDs.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

Literacy, basic numerical skills and basic digital skills are sufficient for participation in the course. The course has a professional interface and easy to understand. The social entrepreneurship concept is explained in detaill.

Target Competencies

  • Hard Skills Vision, Spotting Opportunities & Valuing Ideas, Mobilising Resources, Planning & Management, Financial skills, Ethical & Sustainable Thinking
  • Soft Skills Self-Awareness & Self Efficacy, Creativity, Working with Others, Motivation & Perseverance, Mobilising Others, Taking the Initiative, Learning through Experience

Certification Examination

The course is free of charge, there is are assesement at the end of each chapter and after successful completion of the course a certificate providing to the attandent.

Social ENTrepreneurship for Immigrants-SENTIM

Learning Unit and Workload

The course consist of 9 chapters:

  1. Entrepreneurship is(Definition of Entrepreneurship)
  2. Design thinking and learning about the customer
  3. Making sense out of data and understanding your market
  4. Generating ideas
  5. Prototyping
  6. Business model and business planning
  7. Feedbacks, implementation and storytelling
  8. Presenting your business ideas
  9. Entrepreneurial learning community

Target Group

SENTIM E-learning tool is a rich source of knowledge and useful information for all professionals who work with immigrants and want to help them explore their entrepreneurial interest, potential, competencies and provide them additional knowledge about entrepreneurship and business model canvas. The tools are user-friendly and include guidelines and instructions. They can be used by different professionals, also those who do not have extensive knowledge about entrepreneurship. The first and third modules can be used also in other settings and adapted to the needs of the target groups or knowledge, experiences of the trainers and professionals. The tool can also be used directly by people who can get additional information, explore business model canvas and develop their own business idea.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

Literacy, basic numerical skills and basic digital skills are sufficient for participation in the course. The course has a professional interface. Some chapters designed for learning proffesionals and not suitable for enterpreneurship candidates (it could be confusing for people who has limited information about entrepreneurship)  

Target Competencies

  • Hard Skills Vision, Spotting Opportunities & Valuing Ideas, Planning & Management, Ethical & Sustainable Thinking
  • Soft Skills Self-Awareness & Self Efficacy, Creativity, Motivation & Perseverance, Coping with Uncertainty & Risks, Taking the Initiative, Learning through Experience

Certification Examination

The course is free of charge, there is not any interim or final assesement and after successful completion of the course a certificate providing to the attandent.

How to build a Compelling Competitive Strategy

Learning Unit and Workload

The course is comprised of 3 units, plus the introduction and the conclusion, the unit are composed by video lesson from professor Ken Burke:

  • Unit 1: Introduction
  • Unit 2: Define, Segment and track your Competition – 8 videos, 41 minutes
  • Unit 3: Build a Compelling Competitive Matrix – 6 videos, 32 minutes
  • Unit 4: Create a unique competitive advantage – 9 videos, 31 minutes
  • Unit 5: Competitive strategy, Course next step – Suggestion to the next courses to take, 10 minutes

Target Group

Enterpreuner with a young activity, interested in studying the competition in order to identify best selling point for his market

Prerequisites/Necessary background

The course is not complex and give good basis on segmentation and positioning, it could be useful to have some basic knowledge of marketing and a clear understanding of what a market is

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: Developing an Idea Mobilising Resources (Support) Planning & Management
  • Soft skills: Self-Awareness & Self Efficacy Creativity Motivation & Perseverance Coping with Uncertainty & Risk Learning through Experience

Certification Examination

No certification available

Il posizionamento della tua azienda (Italian)

Learning Unit and Workload

Il corso è composto da 3 moduli più un introduzione. I moduli sono composti da varie presentazioni video con delle slide dettagliatamente spiegate e descritte:

  • Modulo 1: Introduzione – 1 video, 4 minuti
  • Modulo 2: Le potenzialità del tuo mercato – 2 video, 15 minuti
  • Modulo 3: Le migliori nicchie di mercato – 3 video, 30 minuti
  • Modulo 4: I migliori clienti – 3 video, 24 minuti

Target Group

Imprenditori e aziende interessate al tema del posizionamento, a come creare una differenziazione del proprio prodotto e come trovare clienti

Prerequisites/Necessary background

Il Corso è semplice e ben spiegato, è consigliato conoscere alcune nozioni fondamentali di marketing, come una conoscenza base di cosa è il mercato,

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: Sviluppare un idea Progettazione e Management
  • Soft skills: Self-Awareness & Self Efficacy Creatività Competenze sociali Prendere l’iniziativa Gestire l’incertezza e il rischio

Certification Examination

Nessuna certificazione disponibile

ENTERPRISE – “ENTrepreneuship Experience and Rising Professionals In Sustainable Europe

Learning Unit and Workload

The course lasts 50 hours in total it is composed guidelines on using the E-learning platform and of 9 modules. Each one is comprehensive of: Introduction; Initial and final self-evaluation assessment (6 questions each); Tests to evaluate the previous and the new knowledge (16 questions). In total, between the self-evaluation assessment and tests, there are 27 quizzes. The modules are:

  • Module 1: Communication & Social Skills, 6 lectures;
  • Module 2: Creativity & Innovation, 5 lectures;
  • Module 3: Entrepreneurship & Green Deal, 6 lectures;
  • Module 4: Cooperative and Collaborative Work, 5 lectures;
  • Module 5: Social Media & Digital Entrepreneurship, 5 lectures;
  • Module 6: Taking the initiative, 6 lectures;
  • Module 7: Market Research; 6 lectures;
  • Module 8: Financial Literacy for Entrepreneurs, 7 lectures;
  • Module 9: How to develop sustainable business, 6 lectures.

Target Group

The main target group is made up of young people, students and experts in the field of entrepreneurship and sustainability at the European level.

Prerequisites/Necessary background

There aren’t necessary prerequisites. At each stage of the course, learners will find an explanation of what is going on in the given activity and what should be done to perform it correctly.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: Finances Developing an Idea Planning & Management Sustainability
  • Soft skills: Self-Awareness & Self Efficacy Dealing with Others Motivation & Perseverance

Certification Examination

The course is free of charge and the certification is available. To receive it, is necessary to complete the initial and final self-evaluation of competencies, the modules and the activities related.

TE.EN. Farm – Teaching Entrepreneurship Education in Farming

Learning Unit and Workload

The course is composed of 9 units, of which the last 4 are in-depths. The 5 workloads include a final evaluation. Modules are:

  1. Being an entrepreneur;
  2. Creativity;
  3. Strategy and business models;
  4. Market analysis;
  5. Web marketing;
  6. Digital agriculture;
  7. Startup financing;
  8. Risk management in agriculture;
  9. Innovation and cooperation.

Target Group

The target group is made up of students of secondary technical schools and vocational training institutes/pathways in the agricultural sector. Specifically, the course is divided in:

  • Course 1: for I-Vet students (secondary school students)
  • Course 2: for C-Vet students (vocational training for students after graduation or for workers)

Prerequisites/Necessary background

It may needs some knowledge of the topic, but modules are easy to study.

Target Competencies

  • Hard skills: Developing an Idea Planning & Management Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
  • Soft skills: Self-Awareness & Self Efficacy Motivation & Perseverance Coping with Uncertainty & Risk Learning through Experience

Certification Examination

The course is free of charge. There isn’t an available certification.

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