Welcome to EICAA

The project “Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Competences Assessment Alliance” (EICAA) is an Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance funded for 3 years. It develops a digital platform for the self-assessment and development of entrepreneurial competences. This will enable universities, companies and other organisations to monitor and develop entrepreneurial competences among learners more efficiently.

During this third and final year of the project, the development of the EICAA Digital Platform – the main output – is in its final stage. To foster entrepreneurial competences appropriately, it is vital to know which competences need more attention than others. Exploiting the instruments of the EICAA Digital Platform enables entrepreneurship educators, coaches and managers to understand the entrepreneurial competence profile of their learners better. To do so, they can rely on an empirically validated self-assessment developed by the EICAA consortium. Moreover, the platform provides an analytical visualisation of the self-assessment data which sums up the competence profile of the assessed group. We call this data driven instrument the Competence Monitor.

After a self-assessment has been concluded, the platform also suggests teaching and training activities for addressing those competences where the group under consideration has scored lowest. This feature of the platform facilitates targeted entrepreneurship education even further. It works on the basis of a comprehensive set of teaching and training materials that have been carefully compiled by the EICAA consortium for 19 entrepreneurship competence along 4 different proficiency levels. We call this repository the Competence Development Kit.

By offering a free technical solution that integrates competence self-assessment, data analysis as well as guidance and inspiration for competence development, our consortium is convinced that the EICAA Digital Platform provides a new value to entrepreneurship educators and trainers in the EU and beyond. While the vision to establish such innovative solution has been the main driver to join forces within EICAA at the beginning of 2021, it has almost taken three years of time and dedication to develop its first version.

This said, we invite you to read the fourth issue of our electronic magazine which provides insights on how the digital platform was set up as well as how it was tested throughout Europe within the EICAA Pilot Round.

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Strengthening entrepreneurial competences of students, academic staff and employees in Europe.

Vision

“EICAA seeks to assess, analyse, and develop entrepreneurial competences among university students and staff as well as among employees of the corporate sector.”

Mission

“By building a digital platform, university and industry stakeholders will be enabled to assess and analyse the level of entrepreneurial competence within their organisation. Furthermore, suitable education and training interventions will be provided to accurately address specific entrepreneurial competence development needs.”