Project name : E-BAZAAR
Coordinator : EBG
Type of project : Grundtvig
multilateral
Partners :
Austria
France
Italy
Turkey
United Kingdom
Summary
In
The aims of the proposal “Bazaar” are
- Promote
creativeness (2009 is year of innovation and creativeness) and enhance the
sense for initiative and entrepreneurship
- A
major shift in attitudes to working at an older age on the part of
employers, SME, costumer, society and older workers themselves.
- Awareness raising and open minding for the new
approach for employment of older workers
- A network to encourage and support older people
- European dimension of understanding and learning
from each other; good practices: Of the 55 to 64 year olds in United
Kingdom 58 percent are in employment.
- Guidance and
encouragement to improve older people´s employability, revalue and upgrade
their competences and knowledge. Since everyone gathers knowledge, skills
and experience during their life (formal, informal, non formal) not only
to work in one's previous profession, but also to explore new and
interesting ones. Project will stimulate
them to learn a new qualification and/or to start their own business:
- Age is no
barrier for setting up a business when you’re over 50
- How
putting your creativity to work
- How to earn money with your
hobbies
- Motivating
yourself to become self-employed
- E-marketing
–the power of the Internet
- How to
use your already existing knowledge, skills
- How
to gain new skills
- How
to run an e-shop
- Offering an e-marketing
course already developed and implemented by EBG for the European project
“Hakkari e-trade” under programm Eastern Anatolien Development Program
2006-2007 (18 months) DG ELARG/MEDTQ/04-01 SD/005
- Establishing a bazaar to
support individual entrepeneurs so they are embedded in a “collective
entrepeneurship” instead of struggling individualy with the similar
problems and face probably some dead ends.
LLL Priority:
Many older
adults want a change of occupation, which enables them to develop new interests
and express their changing values. Self employment, second careers are
important features of later working life. This is driven by the desire for
personal autonomy and the absence of suitable paid work. We want to motivate
50+ as settled and mature individuals with life and work experience to
creativity and entrepreneurship and contribute to economic prosperity social
and individual wellbeing.
The lowest participation rates in LLL throughout the EU
continue to be those of older workers. The project
will encourage senior people not to drop out of working life and to
upgrade their knowledge and even develop second or third carers. As
a result of problems of unemployment and later life older people may be
affected by social isolation.
If people
are making a meaningful contribution in the workplace, they are more willing to
learn/refresh and widen their competences.
With a current employment rate of 43.5%,there is still
significant untapped potential among older workers - one of the largest target
groups in EU. As a result of problems of unemployment and later life older
people may be affected by social isolation and economical problems,
particularly if they have not been able to be adequately covered by pensions or
to accumulate savings to provide for retirement. “Bazaar” develops and tests
innovative instruments to promote entrepreuneurship of 50+.
Our project
mobilizes the full potential of older people, revalues and upgrades their
know-how, skills and experience.
The training and the perspektive of self employment for second or third carers
are start point of the project. Due to project`s main tool (e-marketing) the intergenerational
learning with own children or grandchildren will be also possible and intented,
since the young generation is more interested and involved in ICT issues and
would help the target group and advice them.
Older people
are the target group of our project. This generation today is (and in future
will be) good educated and skilled, agile and vital and has statistically to
live more than 20 healthy years (assumed life expectancy). Our project addresses older
people who are looking to make a meaningful contribution in the workplace, to
start new careers and revalue their knowledge and competences.
2010 work program underlines promoting creativity and
the growth of an entrepreneurial spirit. Overall mission: development of the EU
as an advanced knowledge-based society, with sustainable economic development,
more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. Bazaar aims at the training
new skills, development of knowledge and, promotes entrepreneurship. The
economical and social inputs due to employment and income perspective are the
contributions of the project to the program.
Relevance
Older workers in European labour markets still
represent one of the largest target groups for raising employment. With a
current employment rate of 43.5% ,there is still
significant untapped potential among older workers and their numbers will
continue to grow during the coming decades. In
Innovative
a)In developing solutions in order to change attitudes of
society and institutions against older people and their employability
b) Fostering initiative and entrepreneurship
c) e-market
tool for entrepreneurs by using
internet to sell goods and services.
d) In addressing of employment of
older people in service sector by upgrading their already existing skills,
knowledge and experience or gaining new ones: We encourage and
train unemployed and retired people 50+ to provide service and/or goods with their
already existing skills and experience like teachers, physicians, nurses,
ICT-experts, web designer, experts for management, accountants, people for
repair services for machines or household utensils, hairdresser, tailor,
masseur, cook, elderly care services, gardener,
as well with their creative
hobbies; photographing, painting,
writing,
sewing,
woodworking, home decoration,..;
e) Establishing a bazaar to support individual
entrepeneurs so they are embedded in a “collective entrepeneurship” instead of
struggling individualy with similar problems(to prevent dead ends). With
an e-market people can start up their own business in order to offer their
service to companies or consumers.. The entrepreneurs
will be organised in form of a
virtuel bazaar, a marketplace like the Grand Bazaar in
Kickoff meeting - Berlin - decembre 2009
Second meeting Paris - april 2010
Other photos
Minutes of the meeting
Official website
3rd work meeting in Padua (Italy)
MAGENTO COURSE
Magento online official user guide (in English)
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5th meeting in Newport