DIFME Survey
If you are a current or aspiring business owner or a manager, could you kindly spare some time to participate in this survey in order to help us identify the existing skill gaps of entrepreneurs?
Research
The success of a business depends on the planning and tight management of budgets, balancing the books, and revising financial strategies as necessary.
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Partners
The DIFME partnership was carefully set up having in consideration the identified needs, the objectives of the project as well as the knowledge, skills and competences required by the tasks and activities to be developed in the lifespan of the project.
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Digital Internationalisation and Financial Literacy Skills for micro-entrepreneurs has been created to identify existing gaps in micro entrepreneurs’ skills and to develop fundamental competences related to financial literacy and digital skills to help internationalise and develop businesses.
Toolkit
In the fast-paced world of business, we aim to offer you an effective e-learning tool to ensure that you can develop the appropriate knowledge and skills in your own time and at your own place and pace. We believe that the available technologies to make a course...
Partners
The DIFME partnership was designed to achieve the right mix of subject matter expertise to deliver the project's goals. The partnership comprises five Higher Education Institution Partners who recognise the critical role of education in helping entrepreneurs to improve the survival rates of their businesses and six Enterprise Partners to provide the entrepreneurs' perspective.
What is DIFME: Digital Internationalisation and Financial Literacy Skills for micro entrepreneurs
What will the project do?
The DIFME project seeks to deliver a curriculum to meet the real needs of entrepreneurs in the areas of financial literacy and digital skills. Through an in-depth analysis of the needs of entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurship programmes offered by Higher Education Institutions in the EU (and beyond) it will identify the fundamental competencies required in the two disciplines and the gaps in existing provision. The project will then design and test a curriculum to deliver these skills in a combination of methods including an e-learning platform.
Access to the learning platform and signposts to other valuable information sources will be made available through an online SME HUB.
Research
The challenges and opportunities the project aims to address are based on the following findings about the survival rate of newly founded entities and the value and importance of micro enterprises for economic development and job creation.
30 - 60%
of newly founded entities created by self-employed survive past 5 years
30.6 million
individuals were self-employed in the EU-28 in 2016
Our Partners
Erasmus – Project Reference 600834-EPP-1-2018-1-MT-EPPKA2-KA
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