Entrepreneurship training promotion for entrepreneurs

Project Faster

The FASTER project is supported by the Leonardo da Vinci Programme of the European Commission. Its goal is to promote the mainstreaming in Europe of good practices for entrepreneurship education.

The project is aimed at transferring the ISTUD Entrepreneurship Programme (IEP), a training course to support high-growth oriented entrepreneurs. The course, designed to teach entrepreneurship to those committed in exploiting their knowledge through the creation of a knowledge intensive company, has been developed and successfully run in Italy by the business school ISTUD Foundation and will be modified and transferred to other European Business schools, Universities, Innovation Intermediaries in Poland, Hungary, Cyprus, and the Czech Republic, which are committed in adapting the IEP model to their own entrepreneurial environment.

In doing this, the FASTER project will foster the cooperation among key actors involved in entrepreneurship promotion such as organizations providing learning opportunities, incubators, Technology Transfer Offices and early stage investors. The cooperation among the above mentioned actors is crucial for the success and effectiveness of the training programme, because it will give the opportunity to the would-be entrepreneur to build a network able to support him in the starting phase.

Main project Activities

• Development of the common methodology and tools for the assessment of the regional contexts;

• Regional survey describing the local situation and the needs to be fulfilled by the training programme;

• Analysis of results of the regional scans and identification of the needs of the transferee regions, the transfer strategy and the process proposed;

• Development of the customized training toolkit and “training the trainers” session;

• 4 pilot deliveries of the transferred training programmes;

• Assessment of the pilots and fine-tuning of the regional programmes according to the assessment;

• Awareness raising, dissemination and exploitation of the results.

Project Target groups:

• European public and private Innovation Intermediaries such as business incubation centres (BICs), regional development agencies (RDAs) and Innovation Agencies (IAs), counselling firms, working in the innovation area, universities, business schools, and other Vocational Education and Training organizations, interested in boosting entrepreneurship.

• Ambitious would be entrepreneurs.