Capacity building projects support the relevance, accessibility and responsiveness of VET institutions and systems in third countries, and for this project, countries in the Middle East.

Entrepreneurship is a vital driver of economic growth and development, and it is a set of skills which can be taught with the appropriate frameworks, methods and tools, especially in a VET context. EMSA aims to build the capacity of VET institutions in Egypt, Jordan and Palestine through the implementation of two complete VET programmes which will be offered to their learners and will be based on Key Competences of Lifelong Learning (ERF) and the Entrepreneurial Mindset (ENTRECOMP) and co-developed with two VET organisations from Cyprus and Greece.

The ERF and ENTRECOMP curriculum and materials include both soft (social competences) and hard skills (digital skills) that will be delivered through non formal learning and will be validated.

The consortium of the project consists of six organisations from five countries (Cyprus, Greece, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine).

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the project are to:

• Develop cooperation between 6 VET providers in the areas of ERF and ENTRECOMP but also in the area of development and validation of key competences
• Implement together the whole cycle of 2 VET programmes (from the design, to the evaluation and validation)
• Co-design, co-develop VET curricula and materials for the 6 (out of the 8 competences) of the ERF and the 15 competences of ENTRECOMP and to align them with level 5 of EQF
• Develop the competences of VET providers of the partners from the Middle East on the design of curricula and materials as well as the specific frameworks (ERF and ENTRECOMP)
• Co-develop assessment tools for ENTRECOMP and ERF curricula to be used for the validation of the non-formal learning provided to the learners
• Develop and validate the competences of the learners
• Empower the VET providers in the countries of the Middle East through the implementation of capacity building activities such as workshops, training of master trainers etc.​
• Promote this capacity building results to other VET providers in the countries of the consortium as well as outside of the countries of the consortium​