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LEONARDO DA VINCI - PROCEDURES B & C
PROJECT INFORMATION SHEET – THEMATIC MONITORING
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GENERAL INFORMATION – IDENTIFICATION OF THE PROJECT
(please refer to the application form, the contract and all amendments)
PROJECT NUMBER:
SK/01/B/F/PP-142226
PROJECT TITLE:
PROJECT PROMOTER:
Regional development by distance learning of SME managers
(name of organisation)
CONTACT DETAILS:
Ekonomická univerzita/University of Economics
Name:
Pavol Molnár
Address:
Dolnozemská 1, 85235 Bratislava
Telephone:
+421 – 2 - 67295518
Fax:
+421 – 2 - 624 12 205
E-mail:
molnar@euba.sk
Internet:
http://redilem.sjf.stuba.sk (project)
http://www.euba.sk (contractor)
PROJECT DURATION:
Nº. of Months:
36
Start Date:
1. 11. 2001
End Date:
31. 10. 2004
II- IDENTIFICATION OF MAIN THEME AND EVENTUAL RELATED THEME COVERED BY THE PROJECT
2.1
MAIN THEME (THEMATIC GROUP) COVERED BY THE PROJECT
(please tick/cross only one theme as appropriate - this should be the theme which appears in the compendium)
Theme 1: Integration into the Labour Market
Theme 2: Developing of Skills within Companies, particularly SMEs
Theme 3: Adapting of the Training Supply and New Training Methods - The Quality of Training
Theme 4: Transparency, Assessment and Validation Knowledge
Theme 5: E-learning
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2.2
RELATED THEME COVERED BY THE PROJECT (WHERE APPLICABLE)
(please tick/cross only one theme as appropriate )
Theme 1: Integration into the Labour Market
Theme 2: Developing of Skills within Companies, particularly SMEs
Theme 3: Adapting of the Training Supply and New Training Methods - The Quality of Training
Theme 4: Transparency, Assessment and Validation Knowledge
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Theme 5: E-learning
III
RELEVANCE AND JUSTIFICATION OF PROJECTS WITHIN INDIVIDUAL THEMES
3.1
RELEVANCE OF THE PROJECT TO THE MAIN THEME
JUSTIFICATION
(please explain in detail why the project was allocated to the above mentioned main theme)
It is a general aim of National and Community policies to decrease unemployment. Regions with
very high rate of unemployment are not so successful if there is not enough support on regional
level. The system of distance learning will consist of three methods: E-learning, self learning and
regular meetings of self-learning groups of entrepreneurs. This program is intended to support
regional development together with involvement of people from the region. The creation of selflearning groups of entrepreneurs directly in regions is proposed because of minimal costs and time
loses of new small entrepreneurs. It has a big importance for entrepreneurs not to loose time due to
lack of finance and they also should not interrupt work in their company for longer time. The goal
of the project is to develop syllabuses , curricula and teaching materials for new type of
interdisciplinary distance courses using traditional and modern electronic based learning materials
providing an effective and low cost opportunity to deliver corporate training activities that are
required for today's fast-changing technological environment. Another goal is to increase
motivation of new entrepreneurs to stand in own business by the support of trained trainers who
will help to create self-learning groups of new entrepreneurs near to the place of their firms.
Entrepreneurs can help each others overcome same problems through mutual exchange of their
experiences in these groups. The type of training which can also support self- confidence of new
entrepreneurs is not available. For these reasons the project is advantageous and relevant for all
participating countries, not only for the country of the co-ordinator, i.e. the Slovak Republic. The
primary target groups are the new small entrepreneurs in first two years of existence of their own
company with limited access to learning opportunities. The aim is to provide them with
interdisciplinary education, since their present-day education is considered (by the project authors)
to be excessively one-sided, their orientation is overly technical, and to increase their flexibility
and adaptability to the changing market needs to raise their competitiveness as well as their
abilities to co-operate with domestic and foreign partners, mainly their customers, as well as with
other SME workers. Territorial priority will be placed on the development of the standard of
education in the regions with very high rate of long-term unemployment or with structural
problems concerning employment. The project is aimed to support entrepreneurship in regions with
high rate of unemployment through the development of competencies of the heads of new small
enterprises. That will be reached by the development of a distance learning programme which has
many benefits in the time and cost savings. The chance of surviving of new small enterprises will
be increased after application of worked out training and E-learning. The materials will be designed
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for most critical phase of new enterprises and enables their development in the future. In the next
step the situation for higher employment in the successful companies will be created.
The learning material- textbooks will be designed and developed for self- learning of SME
managers. The textbooks will be in printed and electronic. They will include topics concerning
fundamentals of entrepreneurship ( module 1.- business plans and seed financing, marketing,
accounting and controlling - costs, effectiveness, productivity, commodity science), enterprise
management ( module 2.- human resources management, project management, environmental
management, risk management, crisis management, quality management) , application of modern
technologies ( module 3.- robotics, biotechnologies, energy and water recuperation, ecogenerations, renewable raw materials, recycling, membrane processes), communication and
psychology ( module 4 -industrial-organisational psychology social psychology, emotions in the
workplace, job satisfaction, leadership, and motivation, personnel selection, psychology of
marketing ), using computer and information technologies ( module 5 .- information technologies
and information systems, electronic exchange of information, using Internet, software application of
the methods and instruments in management and administration), etc. These teaching materials will
be developed in a traditional printed form, but preferably with the use of electronic based
technology.
3.2
RELEVANCE OF
JUSTIFICATION
THE
PROJECT
TO
THE
RELATED
THEME
(WHERE
APPLICABLE)
(please explain in detail why the project may also contribute to another theme)
The goal of the project is to innovate the training and education of our SME managers,
implementing new interdisciplinary distance courses, and using modern electronic based teaching
materials. The distance learning will be implemented in assistance from the Universities, as well as
local private training organisations. The innovative character of the project may be summarised as
follows:
-new type of learning - distance courses are the form of very flexible learning delivery
-the development E- learning for SME managers,
-new teaching materials, while using a traditional way of printing but also electronic based
teaching materials, such as CD ROM , multimedia and web sites,
-a new type of assessment and evaluation methods for the courses.
The main result of the project will be in developing of a new type of education for SME´s managers,
which will link the theoretical and practical training within a learning network in one education
system of distance learning. The system will consist of three basic methods: E-learning, selflearning and regular meetings (courses) of self-learning groups of entrepreneurs. E- learning for
SME managers based on Web- site will be developed. The proposed content of web site is
following: the meeting point for interactive communication of trainer and trainees, immediate
support and advice through E-mail or chat room, school for entrepreneurs with virtual classrooms,
games for simulating management situations, questionnaires for self-evaluation, databases of
information.
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