ENHANCING DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MICRO ENTERPRISES IN RURAL AREAS IN A POST PANDEMIC WORLD

The MICRO2 official website represents a repository of the project’s outputs, results, news and contacts, and will be the OER platform for target groups to access MICRO2 resources and training materials.

MICRO2 is a project within ERASMUS+ KA220-VET – Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training.

Digital innovation, innovative business models, changing nature of jobs and new methods of work are all reshaping the way companies operate.

Small and micro-enterprises in rural Europe are the ones facing the greatest challenges in sustaining their digital transition.

MICRO 2 Digital aims to address the pressing need to support microenterprises in rural areas to embrace digital transformation by tackling the issue of digital competences and skills of their staff.

Moreover, MICRO2 Digital aims to enhance the responsiveness and coherence of the VET system in rural areas to meet increasing demand for digital competences by upgrading service provision and also by the latest update DigComp 2.2 released in March 2022.

Objectives of the MICRO2 project are:

• Develop the “Digital Microenterprise Matrix” based on DigComp 2.2 + EntreComp

• Develop training for rural microenterprises on most relevant digital competences & skills based on Learning Outcome approach (Cedefop) and is also EQF compliant

• Develop operational tools for microenterprises to implement digital transformation in their daily operations

• Develop the “Digital Warehouse” with knowledge containers, digital workshops and networking spaces

• Deliver MICRO 2 Digital Training

The project officially kick-started on December 2022, with the first online transnational meeting during which partners had a great opportunity to discuss the overall project implementation schedule, define timelines and respective duties in the following months. One of the very first activities was the development, testing and implementation of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform.

MICRO2 Platform is the main showcase of project’s results and its largest and most tangible channel for international visibility, and is available in 3 languages (EN, ES, IT) with all of its content completely available for free, without requiring any kind of registration/identification by the user. MICRO2 website is now online at https://digitalmicro2.eu/.

Project platform will host and integrate all the main achievements of the consortium; each section of the MICRO2 Platform is a stand-alone library of its corresponding output.

For further information about MICRO2 Project, stay tuned to https://digitalmicro2.eu/