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WHAT IS THE VISION OF YOUCOOPE?
The overall objective of the YouCoope is to contribute to the reduction of youth unemployment, particularly in countries with high unemployment rates such as Italy and Spain, through the implementation of successful and innovative cooperative entrepreneurial methodologies and training courses for educators from secondary schools and higher education institutions. This project is also contributing to the dissemination of the cooperative model among educative curricula and European youth. To meet this objective, the project aims to develop cross-European training, blended-learning methodologies, and tools that will be open educative resources for future replication.
Educators will be able to share knowledge and learn from practitioners so that they can be provided with the necessary abilities for teaching cooperative entrepreneurship in the classroom. In doing so, and by increasing the presence of the co-operative model, their future students will be provided with the skills needed for both current and future labour markets, thereby raising their employability leading ultimately to a reduction in youth unemployment.
WHO IS INVOLVED?
The project is led by Centro Internacional Santander Emprendimiento (CISE, part of Fundación UCEIF) and is a consortium of 10 partner institutions from 5 European regions with different backgrounds, including the know-how coming from both ECOOPE and CooPilot consortia and gathering in the team two European public universities, entrepreneurship, educative, cooperative and social economy centres, cooperatives’ federations and innovative cooperatives.
Belgium – Bantani Education Italy – Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione, Universita degli Studi di Trento Spain – CISE (Coordinator), Universidad de Cantabria (Afiliated entity), EURICSE, Ciudad Industrial del Valle del Nalón, S.A., Fundación Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social
United Kingdom – Awel Aman Tawe
HOW IS YOUCOOPE IMPLEMENTED?
YOUCOOPE will develop cross-European training, blended-learning methodologies, and training tools for European secondary and HEI level educators. This blended-learning experience will be built upon an entrepreneurial mindset and skills and focused on the needs of the educators for the promotion and comprehension of the cooperative model and entrepreneurship.
The project will implement four pilots with lecturers, professors, technical assistants and researchers from higher and secondary education in Italy and Spain. These pilots will test the proposed innovative methodology, with an initial digital phase and a face-to-face phase with not only a theoretical approach but also a practical one based on direct experience and contact with real context.
HOW DOES YOUCOOPE LINK TO ENTRECOMP?
EntreComp is used as a base for the development of the blended learning methodology, especially the learning outcomes, and the syllabus. The project adapts the EntreCompEdu conception of the methodology, an Erasmus+ policy project on the professionalisation of teachers since both projects are targeted to educators.
The MOOC and the workshops are still being developed and EntreComp will serve as a guideline for the design of the modules and their content.
The MOOC will provide a more theoretical training on the EntreComp competences, and the workshops will serve as a means to put in practice these competences and to gather resources to help students develop these competences.
Considering that the project is still developing, the training is expected to cover, principally, these competences:
Spotting opportunities Creativity
Valuing ideas Ethical and sustainable thinking Financial and economic literacy Learning through experience The following competences are likely to be developed secondarily: Mobilizing others Mobilizing resources Planning and management
The main learning principles that the project will use are:
Value creation Real-world Collaboration
Value creation is inherent to the cooperative model in which YouCoope focuses, so it is likely to be paramount for the MOOC and workshops. Real-world experience will also be key to the development of the project since real-world examples will be used, along with case studies of good practices. Collaboration will have a special relevance during the workshops since they aim to foster relation among educators.
It is expected that the MOOC and the workshops will also address creativity, reflection, and visibility. This way all learning principles will be covered. Nevertheless, it must be considered that the project is still developing and there may be some changes.
WHAT ARE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS OF THE PROJECT?
The consortium will build a blended-learning experience with a MOOC and face-to-face modules.
This toolkit will be part of a final Guide for Educators to Teach Cooperative Entrepreneurship Education, with resources for introducing these concepts in their lessons. Even though the structure of the project is not directly linked to the EntreComp framework, it has a strong impact on the project results, since the blended learning methodology and the syllabus are design to work on EntreComp competences and help its development among participants.
The project will also place a strong emphasis on the dissemination and communication of all project activities and results to a wide public through
targeted communication channels such as social media networks and the project website. Therefore, after the validation of the methodology, a printed guide will be developed including information for teachers to replicate this training and with methodologies and resources for the integration of cooperative entrepreneurship in European curricula.
WHAT'S IN YOUCOOPE FOR YOU?
Innovative and creative blended learning methodology for educators that can be easily replicated, adapted to different contexts and can be implemented with limited financial means Development and use of the EntreComp competences Introduction to cooperative entrepreneurship for educators and students
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