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From our beginnings, we have worked focused on boosting entrepreneurship and innovation from Cantabria, always looking at the national and international scene.
Thanks to the good practices developed in the latest years, to our capacity of working in a networking of hundreds of organisations from the public and private sector, and to the scalability of all our initatives, we have been endorsed by the European Commission to lead several projects that foster entrepreneurship and the soft skills of people around the continent.
All digital training and on-site programmes we develop at CISE boost the development of the competencies that the EU has defined within the ‘EntreComp’ framework and which companies are looking for when hiring talent.
As well as defining the skills and attitudes that the ‘entrepreneurial spirit’ involves, EntreComp serves as a guide to create the policies needed to develop the essential soft skills for both personal and professional growth.
In order to design and implement different European Projects we lead, we work together with universities, innovation centres, cooperatives and business associations from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States.
Today’s children and youth face major challenges, ranging from climate crises to inequality. Our Impact-Driven Entrepreneurship Education for Children (IDEEC) project supports teachers, impact entrepreneurship education facilitators, and policymakers to build and support effective programs that empower children and youth aged 9-15 to develop entrepreneurial solutions to environmental and social challenges.
EntreComp4Transition is a project that aims at developing new, innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and learning paving the way for the future “Green Transition Facilitator” by fostering an entrepreneurial mindset, facilitating co-creation and ensuring recognition of learning outcomes. It will rely on country clusters forging innovative alliances to support teachers, trainers, businesses and end users in the learning pathway.
“From educators to entrepreneurship facilitators” is a European project with 5 partners from 4 countries, in collaboration with the Erasmus+ Agency of Portugal, whose mission is to reduce the existing gap between the academic and entrepreneurial worlds, fostering the competences demanded from young people when they first enter the labour market.
FEEF develops a training pathway focused on the development of entrepreneurial skills of university students and works on the implementation of a set of facilitation techniques that enable educators to acquire new skills and competences that allow them to help their students, memorising and supporting them in achieving their personal goals and objectives.
Through a gender-sensitive and multi-stakeholder approach, “MOMENTUM of Cooperation” brings together civil society organisations, public employment services, VET providers and employers at local level to reduce the structural and cultural barriers faced by third-country national women in accessing specific and tailored vocational training and employment opportunities, focusing on refugee women aged 18-39 in the 3 EU countries most affected by migration flows (GR, IT, ES) and 2 countries with a positive and critical approach to integration (PT, HU).
European project with 8 partners from 4 countries, in collaboration with EIT Health and EIT Digital, with the mission to remove barriers inhibiting innovation and entrepreneurship by strengthening links in the educational knowledge triangle and making training, tools and personalised support open and easily accessible to European citizens. We expect to benefit 4,000 European citizens by 2023 and up to 19,000 by 2030, by inoculating universities with the entrepreneurial spirit and fostering behavioural change through the implementation of tailor-made interventions.
e-DESK is a programme co-funded by the European Union and implemented by a consortium of five international partners led by CISE.
It’s a training project for university teachers in the European Union on digital skills and entrepreneurship, in response to the needs that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted in terms of hybrid education and digital and entrepreneurial response at university level.
This iniatiative will seek to strengthen businesses within the travel & tourism sector, making them more sustainable through tailored training and peer-to-peer transfer of knowledge. The acceleration process will boost the creation of innovative solutions with the help of a coach for each SME and the development of groundbreaking strategies for new business models.
Youcoope has designed online and on-site training modules containing innovative resources, methodologies and tools so that educators can apply actual cooperative entrepreneurship experiences and skills to their lessons. The project seeks to encourage European educational institutions -both secondary education and higher education – to include the cooperative model in their curricula.
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This project will leverage the implementation of EntreComp, the European reference framework, as the tool that the education sector can use to focus on the soft skills needed to foster the development of citizens with an entrepreneurial mindset, who, through their actions can generate social, cultural and economic growth.
Within the Erasmus+ context, BLUES designed its own methodology and created online and on-site educational resources that were based on the best European practices and the EntreComp framework. Both the MOOC and the face-to-face pilots helped undergraduates develop skills such as leadership, critical thinking, teamwork or innovation, complementing their academic training.
Through the design and implementation of innovative training activities in secondary and higher education, ECOOPE developed several pilot programmes in collaboration with local co-ops to motivate and boost the cooperative model amongst European youngsters, as the tool for them to acquire the social and entrepreneurial skills fostering their employability.
Youth@Work is the European Strategic Alliance of Erasmus+ National Agencies, SALTO-YOUTH Centers and European Solidarity Corps to create synergies between the different activities and trainings carried out within the scope of the Erasmus+ program, as well as to take measures to support young people in employability and entrepreneurship. The focus is on supporting how this European program can be used as a tool to foster employability and entrepreneurship among young people, as well as to strengthen networking and exchange of best practices among EU partner countries and regions.
International cooperation project that seeks to contribute to the prevention of violence through the promotion of empowerment and entrepreneurial skills, with special emphasis on the benefits of the social economy model, of women in the municipality of San Pedro Masahuat, Department of La Paz, El Salvador. The program will be based on a training phase, a practical phase and a community awareness phase.
The Pact for Skills is one of the flagship actions of the European Skills Agenda.
The Pact aims to support public and private organisations with upskilling and reskilling, so they can thrive through the green and digital transitions.
Members of the Pact have access to knowledge on upskilling and reskilling needs, advice on relevant funding instruments to boost the skills of adults in their regions and countries, and partnership opportunities within our growing community.