The Test and Validation Report of 'Enhancing Competitiveness of Microenterprises in Rural Areas' (MICRO), a Project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, Key Action 2, Strategic Partnerships for Vocational and Educational Training, has been published on the MICRO website.
MICRO developed practical training resources and a dedicated Open Educational Resource (OER Platform) specifically addressed to microenterprises in rural areas.
The purpose of the Test and Validation phase of MICRO was to test the training courses developed and validate that they address the specific training needs and capacity gaps identified during the assessment phase. Feedbacks and comments collected from more than 350 participants involved in the pilot deployment of the MICRO training are vital to fine-tune the MICRO OER Platform and the training content.
The feedback was very positive and confirmed that the training courses developed successfully address the needs of the target group.
The Test and Validation Report of 'Enhancing Competitiveness of Microenterprises in Rural Areas' (MICRO), a Project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, Key Action 2, Strategic Partnerships for Vocational and Educational Training, has been published on the MICRO website (www.microsmetraining.eu/).
MICRO developed practical training resources and a dedicated Open Educational Resource (OER Platform) specifically addressed to microenterprises in rural areas.
The purpose of the Test and Validation phase of MICRO was to test the training courses developed and validate that they address the specific training needs and capacity gaps identified during the assessment phase. Feedbacks and comments collected from more than 350 participants involved in the pilot deployment of the MICRO training are vital to fine-tune the MICRO OER Platform and the training content.
The feedback was very positive and confirmed that the training courses developed successfully address the needs of the target group.
The Department of Adult & Community Education at Maynooth University is a partner in the MICRO project and has led the Capacity Gap Assessment Report.
From this report that includes the online feedback analysis of one hundred and fifty six micro and craft-type rural based enterprises across the six project partner countries and the investigation of existing literature, policy papers, analysis and diagnostics on microenterprise, skill sets and needs, capacity building needs, etc to ensure coherence and accuracy in the consolidation of findings, ten online courses have been developed for online access:
Marketing/promotion & E-commerce
Business planning, budgeting, management skills for rural micro-entreprises
Financial management in micro-entreprises
EU programme awareness/grants for rural micro-entreprise
Access to non-grant finance for micro-entreprises in rural areas
Building capacity in rural micro-entreprises
Pathway2market and customer identification
EU single market opportunities for rural micro-entreprises
ICT Literacy skills etc.
EU wide tools and resources for rural micro-entreprises development.
For further information about MICRO Project: MICRO website: www.microsmetraining.eu
