Final Conference: Other Projects' Takes - FREE

LINKS-UP Final Conference Web 2.0 for social inclusion: Bridging Practices and Policies

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FREE – Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity
FREE and Social Inclusion

www.spi.pt/free FREE is a 2 years project that started October 2009 and will end in September 2011, coordinated by SPI. The project is founded by the Lifelong Learning Portuguese National Agency, sub-program Leonardo da Vinci – Transfer of Innovation. 1. The FREE project

www.spi.pt/free The FREE project is made up of a partnership of 6 partners across Europe. SPI - Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (PT) EDEN - European Distance and E-Learning Network (UK) NVF - National Training Fund - Guidance Services Support Unit (CZ) Castlereagh Entreprises (UK) HRDC - Hellenic Reginal Development Center (GR) Inveslan (ES) 1. The FREE project

www.spi.pt/free FREE – Fostering Return to Employment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity - is seeking to provide counsellors, tutors, trainers and other professionals working with unemployed individuals , with a web-based interactive tool designed to improve their hard and soft skills. This will allow them to provide a better service when dealing with those who are unemployed, especially age groups <25 and >45 with lower qualifications. 1. Project objectives

Measure the needs of the target groups through an analysis of the entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation skills to be promoted;
Adapt and complete the interactive tool of a former project: EVEC;
Develop a web-based Interactive and multilingual tool that integrates different types of resources;
Develop a support handbook for users;
Disseminate and exploit the project results.
www.spi.pt/free 1. Strategic objectives

Target group Counsellors, tutors, trainers and other professionals working with unemployed people Beneficiaries Unemployed individuals with lower qualifications in age groups <25 and >45 www.spi.pt/free 1. FREE’s target group

1. The interactive tool www.facebook.com/freeproject
The FREE tool will provide four main instruments to the target groups:
Materials on entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation through which the development of hard skills for the target groups and beneficiaries will be possible;
A guidance methodology in relation to entrepreneurship and techniques to help the target groups promote creativity and innovation among the beneficiaries;
Provision of business tools (such as business plans, etc.);
Success cases (case studies) of unemployed people who created their own businesses.

1. The interactive tool http://www.spi.pt/free/interactive_tool/

http://www.spi.pt/free/interactive_tool/ 1. The interactive tool

FREE foster employment through entrepreneurship
FREE aims to provide opportunities for people at risk for being socially excluded (as unemployed)
FREE promotes learning through life and up-skilling people
FREE inspires social inclusion for the most vulnerable groups in today’s society: young and senior people
FREE tries to educate the people dealing with these vulnerable groups  so they can educate the people at risk for social exclusion
www.facebook.com/freeproject 2. Free and social inclusion

www.facebook.com/freeproject 2. Free and social inclusion
FREE is another inspiring example of how the Web 2.0 can positively contribute to better the situation for vulnerable groups in our society.
Endless possibilities of reaching people at risk now – using the Web 2.0.
The good that the Web 2.0 and e-learning courses can do – we are only seeing the beginning!

SPI: Mette Christensen - [email_address]

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