WHAT HAPPED?

In the meeting in Cyprus team members of each partner learned the basics of online course creation, to have a broader understanding, enabling the partners to develop well-structured and thought-out intellectual result. There was a discussion about basic elements needed to design and create a successful learning course, advantages and challenges of teaching in online environment (as it was in the middle of pandemics), approaches to recording and editing a course session, etc.

One of the tasks was to create a web page. It was decided that an online page will have a several sections, including project description, online course (freely available for interested people), success stories by businessman, video lectures, interactive map of support providing organizations, and other sections devoted to business development and implementation, and more. The main topic was a translation to Latvian, English, Turkish and German languages. Representatives from Latvia did idea development and market research, theoretical information on business structures, taxes business forms. A location finding for business, development of business plan, attraction of finance, product/service development and the last one, and company formation – name, logo, image and team.

The first meeting virtually was held by Liepaja Marine College in 02.09.2021. The main participants were all project partners, project managers, teachers and technicians (IT) from Liepaja, Cyprus, Germany and Turkey (about 11 participants).

Partners discussed the results achieved till the time of the meeting and worked on the first short exchange. The main activity was to develop an educational online platform which would include an introductory course in 4 languages – German, Turkish, English and Latvian – about starting a business. For the project further achievement, the first training was done in Cyprus. 

WHAT EACH PARTNER HAD TO DO AND WHAT IS STILL IN PROGRESS?

1.)  The project results in Latvia done already – idea development and market research, theoretical information on business structures, taxes, business forms as well as finding a location of business and development of business plan. Sill has to do – attraction of finance, product and service development, as well as actual company formation, such as name, image, logo and team.

2.)  The first thing for Germany was to do a marketing and search for costumers, promotions and sales. Secondly, management of different aspects of business (human resources, finances, inventory, etc.).

3.)  Turkey has to do a business growth strategy development.

4.)  An online page about entrepreneurship has been made (https://www.ideas2actions.eu/). The main plan for web page was, as the students are very close to working life, self-employment would be the good option for them. The online course would teach a whole process of business creation covering topics from the very start (idea development), theoretical information on business structures, taxes, market research, development of business plan, attraction of finance etc. This web page would be special with its step-by-step teaching about business creation with different activities, video lectures, video interviews and making entrepreneurship as a future option for young workers.

 To develop the course, the following materials plan to be used: “The 10-minute guide for teachers on getting started with Moodle”, “E-learning methodologies. A guide for designing and developing e-learning courses”, and “Methodological Guide for Online course Development”. As well as there was a presentation of the developed web page https://www.ideas2actions.eu/,  and Randa & Ervita e-modules presentations http://edu.ideas2actions.eu/login/index.php.

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