Foreword
© UNIVATIONS GMBH 2021
Welcome to EICAA
Florian Bratzke, Project Coordinator Univations GmbH – Lead Partner of EICAA
To think outside the box and act in an entrepreneurial way is crucial in today’s business world. Entrepreneurship Education (EE) serves as the basis for creative and innovative ideas and offers soon-to-be-entrepreneurs the skills and knowledge to invest in themselves and their work. However, entrepreneurship is not only limited to economic activities, but rather combines a bundle of different abilities, for which classical business skills but also a large variety of soft and transversal skills are needed. To foster different entrepreneurial competences, it is essential to know which elements are already there and which ones need to be strengthened or even learned.
The project “Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Competences Assessment Alliance” (EICAA), is an Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance funded for three years. It aims to develop a digital plat form for the assessment and development of entrepreneurial competences. This will enable universities, companies and other organisations to carry out profiling and monitoring of entrepreneurial competences. An essential “Without good information conceptual starting point for our work is the European on entrepreneurial Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (established competence levels of by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commislearners, it is difficult sion in 2016) which will be enhanced within EICAA. By assessing entrepreneurial competence profiles to match actual for groups of learners on the EICAA digital platform, entrepreneurial learning teaching activities and training offers can be designed needs to adequate more targeted to strengthen entrepreneurial thinking education and training and acting. Suitable teaching and training materials that facilitate entrepreneurial competence development are offers. Our project EICAA also being developed by the EICAA consortium. A selechas been designed to tion of these materials – depending on the respective tackle this ‘blackbox-like’ assessment result – will be automatically suggested to phenomenon.” the users of the digital platform to improve upon specifF L O R I A N B R AT Z K E ic entrepreneurial competence areas. 4
