1. Developing Innovation Agents for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs

2. Aims Matching companies need for young graduates with VET competencies Smoothing transition of young labor market entrants - with education with low employment rate - to the labor market by integrating world of work in the last year Enhancing better skills matching Stimulating higher competitiveness for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs in a global market and opening them for new employee groups

3. Outcomes Innovative approaches to address skills mismatch with focus on building up European business and cross-cultural communication skills New opportunities for unemployed graduates, by providing cross culture training making the unemployed graduates employable in a new field: SMEs going global New ways of integrating real life assignments in training using knowledge gained from the Nordplus and EU projects: NOBANET (lead ARCADA), EU-VIP and ProVip (partner Tietgen) New ways of combining HE teaching methodology with VET methodology to foster employability Joint HE and VET adult learning module development in line with world of work's needs and expectations using of participatory approaches

4. Outcomes New ways of internationalization of VET by using ICT-based methodologies as virtual mobility tools developed for HEI Reinforced cooperation among partners from different countries and different sectors to the benefit of competence recognition Further develop methodologies to fight unemployment via integrating world of work in education to the benefit of local communities Improved practices to cater for the needs of unemployed groups dealing with cultural diversity Increased international capacity and competitiveness in SMEs: improved internationalization competences and internationalization strategies in SMEs

5. Belgium Artesis Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerpen Hilde Hoefnagels hilde.hoefnagels@ap.be SPACE network Luc Broes de.wegvinder@telenet.be Denmark Tietgen (leading) Marie Keller Rademacher mrad@tietgen.dk Italy Istituto Formazione Operatori Aziendali (I.F.O.A.) Luca Boetti boetti@ifoa.it Partners Lithuania V.A. Graiciuno aukstoji vadybos mokykla Rasa Bastyte vak@avm.lt Spain FLORIDA UNIVERSITARIA Maria Amparo Camacho acamacho@florida-uni.es The Netherlands SPARK (IBCM) Charlene Miller c.miller@ibcmitrovica.eu Finland Högskolan Arcada Ab Eija Källström eija.kallstrom@arcada.fi

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