Prosjektkatalog

As European countries face huge challenges seeking to support immigrants and asylum seekers’ socio-economic inclusion, some innovative means of fostering their integration into labour markets as a factor of economic self-sufficiency, should be developed in the cooperation of research, education and business sectors. Our goal is to strengthen the competitiveness of immigrants and asylum seekers in the Nordplus countries.
The project is specifically sought to develop the educational programme in digital entrepreneurship for immigrants and asylum seekers and to implement the pilot training course. The participating Nordplus countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden) are highly interested in the effective ways of the integration of immigrants and asylum seekers into labour market. As the development of ICT prompts new ways for business development (one of the ways is digital entrepreneurship), the educational programmes for target groups of adults should appear in order to fill in the gap in knowledge and skills. However, at present, there are no specific programmes for immigrants and asylum seekers in the field of digital entrepreneurship in partner countries. Meanwhile, as stated by research, digital entrepreneurship is supposed to become one of the most effective ways for immigrants and asylum seekers’ to integrate into labour markets, because it is not directly related to their qualifications or language skills that usually limits their employment capacity (Eurostat, 2017).
The concept of digital entrepreneurship is rather new and innovative issue. It requires deeper analysis on methodological (research) and methodic (teaching-learning process) levels. Therefore, project partners decided to design the continuous project with the aim - to develop a unique educational programme in digital entrepreneurship for immigrants and asylum seekers and to organize its pilot implementation. In the implementation of the project the target groups of adult educators form the previous project will also take part. Each partner country will gain the innovative educational programme for immigrants and asylum seekers and/or other interested groups of adults. The experience of the project and its outcomes will be widely spread in various groups of stakeholders.

As European countries face huge challenges seeking to support immigrants and asylum seekers’ socio-economic inclusion, some innovative means of fostering their integration into labour markets as a factor of economic self-sufficiency, should be developed in the cooperation of research, education and business sectors. Our goal is to strengthen the competitiveness of immigrants and asylum seekers in the Nordplus countries.
The project is specifically sought to develop the educational programme in digital entrepreneurship for immigrants and asylum seekers and to implement the pilot training course. The participating Nordplus countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden) are highly interested in the effective ways of the integration of immigrants and asylum seekers into labour market. As the development of ICT prompts new ways for business development (one of the ways is digital entrepreneurship), the educational programmes for target groups of adults should appear in order to fill in the gap in knowledge and skills. However, at present, there are no specific programmes for immigrants and asylum seekers in the field of digital entrepreneurship in partner countries. Meanwhile, as stated by research, digital entrepreneurship is supposed to become one of the most effective ways for immigrants and asylum seekers’ to integrate into labour markets, because it is not directly related to their qualifications or language skills that usually limits their employment capacity (Eurostat, 2017).
The concept of digital entrepreneurship is rather new and innovative issue. It requires deeper analysis on methodological (research) and methodic (teaching-learning process) levels. Therefore, project partners decided to design the continuous project with the aim - to develop a unique educational programme in digital entrepreneurship for immigrants and asylum seekers and to organize its pilot implementation.
The goal of our project is to develop and validate a training programme in digital entrepreneurship for immigrants and asylum seekers themselves. Our project results raise the awareness of the Baltic countries' adult education organisations and stakeholders in the field of immigrants and asylum seekers integration. We strongly hope that Lithuania together with the neighbourhood countries will improve the quality of adult education programmes, develop innovative programmes (as in digital entrepreneurship), contribute to promoting of collaboration between adult education and business sector, and adjust adult education to the needs of socio-economic context.
Our project contributes to the improvement of the learning process of adults. The projects promote new teaching-learning models, new didactical approached to competence development, attracting more adult learners from different target groups. The competence approach and new methods of competence development will promote the tacit knowledge of students and graduates on how to start their own business etc. Thus, the project would enhance the rates of employability among adults.
We implement the vision of adult education institutions as services providing institutions in a close cooperation with local business community. Therefore, we develop competences of administrative and education staff in work with community by involving them into mutually beneficial projects etc.
In our project we seek to make an impact on various groups of adult education stakeholders (adult educators, adult learners, researchers, vocational education, labour market representatives, policy-makers, etc) and people related to education, increasing their entrepreneurship capability to act under new opportunities. We promote the intercultural dialogue and understanding among the partner countries, stimulate collaboration and synergetic effect, complex approach to solving of similar problems and special emphasis on quality but not on comparison.