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Lifelong learning program ``Cross Border Virtual Incubator - CBVI''

no. 510216-LLP-1-2010-NL-ERASMUSECUE

Tactically, CBVI aims to support business planning, using social and professional media networks as a contributing factor to entrepreneurial success. CBVI subscribes to the need for business (networking) development and co-innovation, inflows and outflows of professional knowledge, in order to accelerate start-ups.

PROJECT FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Modern societies need innovation to sustain the economy, but the individual and financial need to become an entrepreneur has declined: a relative decline in entrepreneurial activity is seen for progressive agricultural and manufacturing economies towards innovation-based economies.

Consequently, states must revitalize the education and training of these skills, and in particular appeal to the individual for whom the need for entrepreneurship has diminished due to the welfare economy. In the innovation economy, entrepreneurship is key: post-2010 education and vocational training programs should be strengthened and restructured, taking into account this requirement, this phenomenon regarding not only mainstream providers such as traditional universities, but also the entire education system . In particular, distance learning institutions (DILs) have a strong mobilization: they have the opportunity to address the adult population, a population (already) identified to have more chances of success with entrepreneurial activities, unlike young graduates.

New flexible ways to promote entrepreneurship and start-ups need to be invented and tested. CBVI intends to address workers/learners (adults) in an innovative and flexible way based on previous successful practice as well as by infusing open technologies and services. The vast capital of open and free tools and services on the Internet is at the same time an active training tool in the social entrepreneurial incubation process, as well as a business tool in the actual start-up of a business.

Finally, a strong force behind the formulation of the CBVI project was the statement of good practices for the Cross Border Virtual Mobility (CSVM) and Cross Border Virtual Entrepreneurship (CBVE) projects, two projects that have been successful in their approach to improve convergence university-business for IDD through flexible approaches.

At a strategic level, CBVI aims to systematically improve discussions and cooperation between higher education institutions (based on education and research) and regional stakeholders, in order to optimize opportunities for entrepreneurship and design the associated entrepreneurship ecosystem. It aims to ensure greater transparency of practices to help stimulate improvement and accelerate the transfer of knowledge on these practices, taking into account that these partners are often located in so-called scientific regions, innovative regions, collaborative regions or development regions.

At the operational level, CBVI intends to demonstrate that start-ups can use several contemporary open tools, technologies and services in order to reduce the financial difficulty threshold of enterprise creation.

CBVI will facilitate far-reaching pilot models of business planning (networking) and success training targeted at new entrepreneurs by universities, multipliers and SMEs. The program takes full advantage of Web 2.0 technologies and uses (open) services at multiple levels to exploit the social and technological connectivity of individuals.

CBVI conducts regional SWOT analysis approaches, based on education and research, to establish flexible technological opportunities for connecting those in start-up projects and stakeholders. It organizes open services to accommodate interested people and professionals. It produces virtual business planning consulting material and pilot tools.

PROJECT DATA

Director

Dr. Eng. Diana ANDONE

Period

2010-2012

Value

25,340 EUROS

States

Prof. Dr. Eng. Radu VASIU, Lect.dr.eng. Marian BUCOS, Lect.dr.eng. Mugur MOCOFAN, Dr. Eng. Andrei TERNAUCIUC, Tatiana TERNAUCIUC

partner

EADTU - European Association of Distance Teaching Universities - coordinator; iENTIRE - Netherlands Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovations Research; University of Wuppertal, Germany; UNED - National Distance Education University, Madrid, Spain; International Development Management SA, Madrid, Spain; Iberian Equities AV, Madrid, Spain; University of Miskolc, Hungary; Chamber of Commerce and Industry Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Miskolc, Hungary; Swansea University, Wales, UK; Open University, Heerlen, Netherlands; Timisoara Software Incubator (UBIT); Technical University Graz, Austria; Tallinn University, Estonia; City Conversity AB, Lund, Sweden; International Telematic University (UNINETTUNO), Rome, Italy; Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland; Anadolu University, Turkey

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