BLOSSOM

Basic competences as literacy, numeracy & digital skills focused on business development

BLOSSOM project focuses on women entrepreneurship skills, especially on business literacy, numeracy and digital skills that are crucial to successfully survive in business environment. The main objective of BLOSSOM project is to improve learning opportunities of adult women with low qualifications by strengthening their basic competences as literacy, numeracy and digital skills focused on business development. The specific goals of BLOSSOM are:

• Identify the needs of adult women on business development skills as business literacy, numeracy and digital skills.
• Support adult low qualified women integration into the labour market and social inclusion.
• Encourage low-skilled women to develop business projects by effective and innovative learning outcomes.
• Increase female entrepreneurship and improve women ́s professional qualifications.
• Develop the capacity of adult women and supporting organisations in entrepreneurship.
• Develop basic and transversal skills.
• Support ICT-based teaching and ICT-based assessment practices.
• Perform a validation analysis of needs and gaps as for capacity of low-qualified women and their needs.

Project consortium:

• Asociación Valencia Inno Hub – Spain
• CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE – Romania
• Growth Consultants – Cyprus
• STOWARZYSZENIE CENTRUM WSPIERANIA EDUKACJI I PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSCI – Poland
• THEODOROS TSANAKAS MARIA KOIMISOGLOU OE – Greece

The results developed within the project implementation period:

• R1: Design and development of core skills and key competencies model needed to up-skill adult women with reference to empower women motivation for professional development and business literacy, numeracy & digital skills
• R2: Plan and design program for women professional growth & business Literacy, Numeracy and Digital skills training for low qualified adult women in form of TOOLKIT.
• R3: E-Learning Platform for “BLOSSOM” training program and online self-assessment tool: The main aim of this result is to create a platform that will deliver a unique innovative and creative environment focused on providing an online Learning Platform. The platform will provide an online space for low-skilled adult women to encourage lifelong learning and foster the development of competences & learn on business literacy, numeracy, and digital skills.
• R4: Self- Assessment Tool for BLOSSOM: The aim of this result is to create an online diagnostic tool assessing the business literacy, numeracy and digital skills and competencies of adult low-skilled women as identified in R1.

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