INCREA works towards the migrants’ acquisition of entrepreneurial and digital skills, combined with activities on the creative sector in order to foster social inclusion and growth through the creation of business.

The digital competitiveness of a country reflects both the Small Businesses possibilities to enter the digital economy as well as the access to digitally skilled staff and customers. If you don´t have the infrastructure and skills - being a part of the digital economy is more difficult. Small Businesses - and not at least startups - are dependent on the surrounding "digital environment" to be able to innovate, develop and to compete with new Business Models and Ideas on an international digital market.

In theDESI 2018 - The Digital Economy and Society Index annual report we can monitor and compare the progress in Europe and Europe vs the rest of the World.The Nordic countriesSweden, Denmark andFinland are together with Netherlands and Luxembourg in top positions but countries like Spain, Cyprus and Ireland  have found that extra gear and are catching up quickly.

In Let’s Guide adults, freelancers, and the unemployed can meet with an innovative education methodology, which helps them to improve their entrepreneurial competences. Partners of the Let’s Guide project designed the on-line platform with training course and interactive learning scenarios in order to develop entrepreneurial competences.

The main aim of the platform is to offer a free on-line training course for people, who think about starting the entrepreneurial adventure (future entrepreneurs, free-lancers, unemployed). The content focuses on competences that are crucial for becoming a successful entrepreneur. The Let’s Guide on-line platform is already running! Read the press release about the launch here.

• Communication
• Leadership
• Creative Innovativeness
• Resilience
• Motivation
  

“ETC.4SE – eTraining Centre for Social Entrepreneurs” is a two-year (2017 - 2019) European project which aims to develop an online training centre in which adults can find support in setting up their own social enterprise.
In order to define the e-Training Centre’s contents and understand the relevant training needs, the project consortium investigated the skills and competences of adults in the partner countries.
The document intends to be a compilation of the information collected by all partners in the national reports in order to have an overview of the state of art of social entrepreneurship in the participating countries. Based on this information the consortium will now define the training curriculum, the contents and the digital tools to be developed for the online training course.

Based on the management model implemented in the social economy sector, the project focuses on the work for the improvement of certain generic skills, such as active entrepreneurship, critical thinking and digital competences, using the theoretical bases of social economy to work the collaborative spirit, and inclusive entrepreneurial thinking.
In this sense and aiming to provide an effective and practical business tool for both trainers and learners the consortium will start now working in the development of the online training course that will consisting of didactic units and a simulation tool of business practices using the adapted Bridge Model technique.
The business simulator is intended to provide learners with practical knowledge in order to have a first approach to the business realities. The ETC.4SE business simulator has the added value provided by the adaptation of the Bridge Model technique, by which it is possible to guide learners through the process of creating a social enterprise through an interactive tool composed of different phases: the users will be entering data on the business he/she wants to develop and will receive feedback with ideas and information on successful practices implemented by other social entrepreneurs.

The National Need Analysis Report of Turkey has been developed in order to outline; the current situation about migrants’ employability and entrepreneurship, needs of highly skilled migrants (HSM) in order to become entrepreneurs in Turkey, from the perspective of HSMs and organizations working with migrants as well as other bibliographic resources.
It also aims to enlighten the gaps in training offered to migrants found through the research activities, as well as propose solutions for the improvement of training available for HSMs in these areas. The report contents relies on the results gathered through a comprehensive desk research and field research activities. The primary dimensions of the report comprise of the results from focus groups meetings and in-depth interviews with highly skilled migrants and stakeholders.

In a Press release from 20th June 2017 the European Commission presents the annual ranking of Innovation in Europe - again Sweden is the over all leader of innovation in Europe and Ireland shows the highest rate of involvement of SMEs and Employees.
As the comments indicates Europe needs to increase the innovation pace and also make it more even around the union as the average in EU 28 shows there is room for improvement. 

In the Erasmus+ project REAL you can reach a platform with 48 animated introduction videos and 48 video lessons in 8 languages. You can take the lessons one by one - as stand alone pieces or you can take all as a course and asses your new knowledge in the end of the session. 
Visit thee-learning platform created by the Cypriotic partner CyNovus 

Circular €conomy Digital Training Toolbox to Foster Innovative Green Entrepreneurship- ENG@GE.

The aim of the Eng@ge partnership is to improve green entrepreneurial culture in Europe by providing VET stakeholders with knowledge about the circular economy.  The project will develop an open digital training toolbox through which educators can prepare individuals to exploit the concept of the Circular Economy as a basis for green entrepreneurship. This innovative toolbox will consist of a number of different training tools and case studies that learners will be able to use, according to their specific needs and aspirations. Through this, the Eng@ge partnership aspires to help trainers in transferring skills and case studies related to the Circular Economy so as to foster European green entrepreneurship.

"This handbook represents the culmination of the work of the Erasmus+ project Teacher 2020.
It offers a series of examples of projects of entrepreneurial education and an explanation of what made them successful. Also, includes reflections derived from the practical initiatives. Using the tool to assess entrepreneurial initiatives and the global framework will help you understand the projects and support you in creating your own."

To educate and train our future entrepreneurs is a topic many organizations and institutions around the world are struggling with.
Not only need we train and motivate students - but also provide teachers and trainers with tools and skills required for the task
Not to mention the motivation they need to keep up the good work and develop it.
In this report a team of partners in an Erasmus+ project have
produced a guide that is worth to spend some minutes to read.

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The Easy of Doing Business Rank shows that the easiest countries to do business in is:

• New Zealand
• Singapore
• Denmark

Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1–190. A high ease of doing business ranking means the regulatory environment is more conducive to the starting and operation of a local firm. The rankings are determined by sorting the aggregate distance to frontier scores on 10 topics, each consisting of several indicators, giving equal weight to each topic.
When it comes to starting a business the rank changes a bit:

• New Zealand
• Canada
• Hong Kong SAR, China

See the full list by following this link

New 2017 Doing Business Report Shows a Record Number of Reforms Worldwide - check the interview with Rita Ramalho, Manager Doing Business World Bank Group.
​Notice also the difference in gender perspective mentioned in the video by Rita Ramalho.

Find a quick overview of the Thailand startup scene - a report created by Techsauce, Thailand.

Techsauce is Thailand's leading technology business media and publication.
We are the source for reliable, insightful news, analysis and opinion pieces on startups in Thailand and SEA. In addition, Techsauce is the creator of Techsauce Summit – the one of leading international tech conference in SEA

Since 2012, we have been researching and collecting all facts that happened in Thailand's startup scene. Every data represented in this report was officially announced in the news. No rumour is included

Developing and promoting entrepreneurship education has been one of the key policy objectives for the EU and Member States for many years.
There is a growing awareness of the potential of young people to launch and develop their own commercial or social ventures thereby becoming innovators in the areas in which they live and work.
Entrepreneurship education is essential not only to shape the mind-sets of young people but also to provide the skills, knowledge and attitudes that are central to developing an entrepreneurial culture.
This report captures all the latest developments in this regard in European countries, following earlier Eurydice reports (2006, 2012). It covers school education (primary, general secondary and school based IVET) in all Eurydice network countries/regions, except Germany, Ireland and Liechtenstein.
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This report showcases the impact of Mowgli’s entrepreneurial mentoring programs on developing sustainable entrepreneurship, evolving leadership and building human capacity in the countries that we operate in.
Read the report and learn about the impact the Mentoring programs have had since 2008. 

Over the last several decades, well-being or mental health, beyond the mere absence of mental illness, has become a central concern occupying the minds and interests of researchers, organizations, practitioners, and policy-makers working in various contexts across the globe. Among other things, this is the result of recurring observations that well-being is positively asso-ciated with a wide spectrum of human activities and conditions.
​In recent years, interest in well-being has found a welcoming home in management and entrepreneurship studies. Notable efforts to link phe-nomena related to well-being with entrepreneurship are Baron’s work on positive affect in entrepreneurship (Baron, 2008), Cardon and colleagues’ work on entrepreneurial passion (Cardon, Wincent, Singh, & Drnovsek, 2009), and labor and happiness economists’ work on the link between self-employment and work and life satisfaction

Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., in Business Administration Stockholm School of Economics, 2015 - by Nadav Shir