STAY AFLOAT project is designed to help entrepreneurs and SMEs identify and interpret early warning signs of a business crisis. It aims to increase the number of business advisors (coaches) who are incorporating early-stage warning signals of business crisis and intervention strategies into their training programmes. By improving the skills and attitude of business advisors, the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training will be increased, and waves of change will be made through entrepreneurship teaching.
The project is double focused. On one hand, it wants to assist entrepreneurs (especially those low skilled) to discover and develop the talents that are vital to starting, growing, and sustaining a thriving enterprise. On the other hand, it wants to work with coaches and facilitators in order to give them the resources and knowledge they need to fully support current and future entrepreneurs in understanding the skills based on coaching and EI, and their unique talents.
The project consortium brings together eight organisations from eight corners of Europe:
CSR Innovative Solutions – Norway (Lead Partner)
CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA INVATARII PERMANENTE – Romania
I AND F EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT LIMITED – Ireland
Coworking Plus – Denmark
FORUM PARA LA EDUCACIÓN Y EL DESARROLLO, SL – Spain
DIE BERATER UNTERNEHMENS BERATUNGS GESELLSCHAFT MBH – Austria
INNOVATION HIVE – Greece
APROXIMARCOOPERATIVA DE SOLIDARIEDADE SOCIAL, CRL – Portugal
The three key outcomes / results of the programme are:
Stay Afloat Framework
– a digital document containing up to date knowledge on early warning signals of business crisis, including detection and intervention opportunities.
Stay Afloat Curriculum and Open Educational Resources (OERs)
– a complete toolkit for business advisors for teaching early-stage intervention skills to entrepreneurs as part of their business development programmes.
Stay Afloat Online Course
– based on the OERs and optimised for digital delivery, enabling SMEs and entrepreneurs to develop and test their skills.