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Guidelines on Economic Literacy ECORL Economy CO-Responsibility Learning EC Project N. 2015-1-IT02-KA204-015467
EC Project Number: 2015-1-IT02-KA204-015467
This project has been co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the European Commission. Publication and products reflect the views only of the ECORL Consortium, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Summary
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................................................... 3
HOW TO DEVELOP ADULT COMPETENCES IN 6 STEPS: ................................................................................................................ 4
1. Comparative Research on Sharing Economy ........................................................................................................................ 4
2. Interactive Web Platform ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
3.Pilot Training Courses for Adults Learners ............................................................................................................................. 6
3.1 TOPICS of the Pilot Training Course ................................................................................................................................. 7
3.2 METHODOLOGIES used during the Pilot Training Course ................................................................................................ 8
4. Guidelines on Adult Collaborative Learning.......................................................................................................................... 9
5. Open Educational Resources .............................................................................................................................................. 10
5.1 Testing the economics competences with the OERs content. .......................................................................................... 11
5.2 The Repository of the OERs .............................................................................................................................................. 12
6. Adults Mobility ................................................................................................................................................................... 16
BASIC SOCIAL ECONOMY COMPETENCES .................................................................................................................................. 20
THE ECORL SOCIAL ECONOMY NETWORK ................................................................................................................................. 22
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INTRODUCTION
This manual aims to be a brief and practical Adult Education Guide on Economic Literacy. It collects contributions from Consortium Partners, products and activities realized during the ECORL project, transforming them into useful tools in order to enable replication and dissemination of the project in other Countries and Organisations. Guidelines on Economic Literacy is a multimedia text, presenting and connecting the main results and documents of the ECORL platform www.ecorl.it/en It addresses adults interested in Social Economy, as well as Associations, Schools, Public and Private Entities working with Adult Education and Sharing Economy topics. We wish to thank warmly the 130 participants to the Pilot Training Courses, the more than 40 teachers, trainers and experts involved, the more than 700 indirect beneficiaries participating in the Multiplier Events in Albania, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, the more than 120.000 users, views and contacts on the ECORL website and Social Networks, the over 50 Associations, cooperatives, companies that over the two years provided contents, ideas, experiences that made the existence of the project. Possible, and its success concrete. Enjoy the reading !
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HOW TO DEVELOP ADULT COMPETENCES IN 6 STEPS:
1. Comparative Research on Sharing Economy
Intellectual Output n. 1 www.ecorl.it/en/results/#.WgHiwjWhfIU
The Research explores Sharing Economy issues within an international perspective, investigating forms of new economy in Western, European, and emerging economies. Special attention is paid to Sharing Economy cases within the Consortium countries, highlighting national specificities, good practices, challenges and problems. A brief glossary helps understanding the meaning of the terms used by the partners. The Comparative Study provides the theoretical basis of the project and was therefore the first product to be shared online on the ECORL Website.
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2. Interactive Web Platform
Intellectual Output n.2 www.ecorl.it/en
The Interactive Platform is both a bilingual Repository of documents, products, online courses, deepenings, FAQs, weekly news on Sharing Economy, and a virtual environment including Social Networks, Facebook, Twitter and Forums. It is updated regularly during the project in order to inform and disseminate the Consortium’s products.
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3.Pilot Training Courses for Adults Learners
Two Editions, 2016-2017, of the Pilot Training Courses on Sharing Economy in Albania, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania and Spain with 12 adult learners.
40 - 50 hours face-to-face meetings with teachers and experts
20 hours of distance learning and individual works/projects
5 days of Mobility in Tirana for an international workshop on Social Business
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3.1 TOPICS of the Pilot Training Courses:
Co-housing
Cooperativisme
Critical consumption
Crowdfunding
Business Plan Design
Ethical Finance
Fair Trade
Organic food, Km0
Sharing Economy
Social Business
Social Economy
Social Street
Sustainable Lifestyle
Transition towns
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3.2 METHODOLOGIES used during the Pilot Training Course:
Analysis of best practices on Social Economy
Distance Learning
Collaborative Learning
Experential Learning
Sharing Knowledge
Focus on Learning Outcomes
Workshops
Problem Solving
Individual and group learning
On places visits
The Pilot Training Course provides tools and basic competences to adult learners on Social Economy in order to compare knowledge and experiences . It is the Intellectual Output n.3
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4. Guidelines on Adult Collaborative Learning
Intellectual Output n. 4 www.ecorl.it/en/results/#.Wcu9cTW_PIU
The Guideline on Collaborative Learning collects theories and practices useful for adults learning: methods, tools, strategies and features of formal, non-formal and informal education, in addition to the good practices and experiences realized by the Partners during the Project.
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5. Open Educational Resources
The 54 Online Courses produced by the Partners are free bilingual learning resources on basic economic literacy issues. They consist in 5 sections:
Video, Deepenings, WebReferences, Exercise to Test their competences and Further Reading.
The OERs are grouped into 4 thematic areas:
Social Economy, Sharing Economy, Ethics Finance, Sustainable Lifestyles They are simple in use and useful for updating and disseminating Sharing Economy themes
Intellectual Output n.5 www.ecorl.it/en/oers/#.WdTRaTW_PIU
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5.1 Testing the economics competences with the OERs content.
The Questions on Social Economy Adult Learners should test their Economics basic Competences through the following questions:
What are the main forms of private financing?
What does “Ethical Finance” mean?
What are the different kinds of Social Business Models?
What are the characteristics of alternative economic models?
What is the revolution of Mohammed Yunus?
Could you give some examples of Sharing Economy?
What is crowdfunding ?
What does the term “responsible consumption” mean?
How to do a business plan?
What does “tax havens” mean?
The questions summarize the main contents covered by the Repository’s OERs
www.ecorl.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/SURVEY.pdf
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5.2 The Repository of the OERs. The Answers on Social Economy
The BOARD of the OERs: each question corresponds to one or more Online Courses’ content (bilingual).
IT/E
N U
PF
Finanza Etica OER_IT_UPF_01
Sharing Economy OER_IT_UPF_02
Stili di Vita sostenibili OER_IT_UPF_03
Impresa sociale OER_IT_UPF_04
Il Biologico OER_IT_UPF_05
SP/E
N F
eup
Social Economy OER_SP_FEUP_01
Cooperativism in Spain and Responsible Consumption
OER_SP_FEUP_02
Title: Ethical bank OER_SP_FEUP_03
Microcredit OER_SP_FEUP_04
Sharing Economy OER_SP_FEUP_05
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HR
/EN
PO
U
Sharing Economy OER_HR_POU_01
Crowdfunding OER_HR_POU_02
Social Economy OER_HR_POU_3
Traditional Social Economy Organisations
OER_HR_POU_04
Peer to Peer Tourism OER_HR_POU_05
AL/
EN Y
SB
Accounting and Finance OER_AL_YSB_01
Social Business OER_AL_YSB_02
Business Plan Training OER_AL_YSB_03
Developing and Measuring Social Impact
OER_AL_YSB_04
Startup Funding OER_AL_YSB_05
LT/E
N E
u t
rad
e
Social Economy definition and History
OER_LT_EUTrade_01
Social Economy Organisation OER_LT_EUTrade_02
Social Business OER_LT_EUTrade_03
Sharing Economy OER_LT_EUTrade_4
Sharing Economy examples OER_LT_EUTrade_05
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IT /
EN U
PF
Crowdfunding OER_IT_UPF_06
Piattaforme Collaborative OER_IT_UPF_07
Progettare nel sociale con il Business Model Canvas
OER_IT_UPF_08
La crisi degli asini: una storia vera OER_IT_UPF_9
Tax Havens OER_IT_UPF_10
SP/E
N
FEU
P
Cooperativism OER_SP_FEUP_06
Fair trade and responsible consumption
OER_SP_FEUP_07
Third Sector OER_SP_FEUP_08
Corporate Social Responsibility
OER_SP_FEUP_09
Alternative Economic systems OER_SP_FEUP_10
HR
/EN
PO
U
Transformative Corporate Social Responsibility
OER_HR_POU_06
Motivation to collaborative learning
OER_HR_POU_07
Intro into Social Entreprenership OER_HR_POU_08
Corporate Social Responsability introduction
OER_HR_POU_09
Corporate Social Responsability
Implementation OER_HR_POU_10
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AL/
EN Y
SB
Financial Statements Introduction
OER_AL_YSB_06
Linking Financial Statements OER_AL_YSB_07
Fundamentals of Economics OER_AL_YSB_08
Customer Development OER_AL_YSB_09
Development of Business Model Canvas
OER_AL_YSB_10
LT/E
N E
u T
rad
e
Social Innovations OER_LT_EUTrade_06
Transition Towns OER_LT_EUTrade_07
Crowdfunding OER_LT_EUTrade_08
Ethical Banking OER_LT_EUTrade_09
Social Business: problems, principles, implementation
OER_LT_EUTrade_10
IT/E
N U
nin
ettu
no
Educazione Finanziaria OER_IT_UNINE_01
Consumer Protection OER_IT_UNINE_02
La lettura del bilancio per le aziende profit e non profit OER_IT_UNINE_03
Tutele dei consumatori: Risoluzione delle controversie
OER_IT_UNINE_04
www.ecorl.it/en/oers/#.Wd4POTW_PIU
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6. Adults Mobility
Five Adults Learners coming from each Partners staff, took part in the Short Mobility in Albania, Editions 2016 and 2017. The International Workshops was held in Tirana at the Yunus Social Business Centre, the most important Center of Sustainable Social Businesses, Microcredit, SME-Start up and Social Entrepreneurship in Europe. Five intensive days characterized by:
Yunus Center working methodology, between Social Economy and start-up creation
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Presentation of individual work on the Social Economy of the participants coming from
Albania, Croatia, Italy, Lithuania and Spain
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Comparing methods, experiences and best practices from each Partner
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Visits to Social Business enterprises in Albania
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BASIC SOCIAL ECONOMY COMPETENCES
After completion of the six steps described above, Adult Learners will gain key Competences on Social Economy and will be able to perform various activities, as the following:
Understand the main concepts of Social Economy;
Explain the historical developments of the Social Economy sector in Europe and in their own country;
Understand the alternative economic system based on Social Economy;
Differentiate various Social Economy organizations that operate within the Social Economy sector;
Analyse the Social Economy structure in their country;
Argument the differences between pure for profit business and social business;
Evaluate benefits that Social Economy organizations create and bring to the society;
Understand the principles of ethical production, fair trade and ethical consumption;
Understand the main principles of corporate social responsibility;
Explain the implementation process of socially responsible activities;
Create a start-up business plan for starting their own social business;
Understand the main concepts of ethical banking;
Argument the benefits of ethical financing;
Clearly differentiate the business model of a commercial bank versus business model of the ethical bank;
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Compare the banking sector framework between countries;
Understanding different investment opportunities for social businesses;
Understand the novelty of crowdfunding idea and crowdfunding as a method for fundraising;
Understand the financial statements for a social business;
Recommend and motivate interested stakeholders to start a Social Economy organization;
Adopt different theoretical concepts related to Sharing Economy and its development in order to gain knowledge Critically think about various practices of Sharing Economy services in tourism (Problem solving, Social responsibility,
Communication); Investigate specific aspects of Sharing Economy services in a destination of choice and suggest possible ways of
improvement - project (Problem solving, Creativity, Social responsibility, Communication and Entrepreneurship spirit)
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THE ECORL SOCIAL ECONOMY NETWORK During the ECORL project activities, the Partners have aggregated the most important Associations working on Social Business and Sharing Economy as useful Network for Adult Learners. Hereby follows a list of the links references:
Acta in rete www.actainrete.it/
Ashoka www.ashoka.org
Autonomni centar (ACT) - http://actnow.hr/socijalno-poduzetnistvo/
Balkan Green Foundation : http://balkangreenfoundation.org
Banca Etica www.bancaetica.it
BKC: www.bkcentras.lt/kas-mes
Business for Social Responsibility https://www.bsr.org
Centar tehničke kulture Rijeka www.ctk-rijeka.hr/hr/dobrodo%C5%A1li-u-online-savjetovali%C5%A1te-za-dru%C5%A1tvene-poduzetnike
Cluster za eko-društvene inovacije i razvoj (CEDRA) www.cedra.hr/hr/pocetna
Collaboriamo ! www.collaboriamo.org
Confederación Empresarial Española de la Economía Social (CEPES) www.cepes.es/
Cultural Heritage Without Border http://chwb.org/albania/
Decrecimiento www.decrecimiento.info/
DOP.HR - www.dop.hr/
Društveno poduzetnički generator www.dp-generator.org/
Economía del Bien Común http://economia-del-bien-comun.org/es
Enterprise Lithuania www.verslilietuva.lt/lt/socialinis-verslas
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Epoka University http://bus.epoka.edu.al/home-epoka-cluster-on-social-business-and-sustainable-systems-280-1788.html
Etična banka www.ebanka.eu/
Fairtrade International www.fairtrade.net/
Fondazione culturale responsabilità Etica www.fcre.it/
GeriNorai www.gerinorai.lt/
Global Opportunities Albania www.go-albania.org
Great Transition Initiative www.greattransition.org/
Green Biz www.greenbiz.com/
Hrvatski centar za zadružno poduzetništvo http://zadruge.coop/hr/
Impact Hub Network www.impacthub.net
Institut Ivo Pilar - www.pilar.hr/novosti/sve-novosti/20-izdvojeno/763-objavljeni-elaborati-drustveno-poduzetnistvo-u-hrvatskoj-i-europi
International Co-operative Alliance www.ica.coop/
Italia che Cambia www.italiachecambia.org
Journalists Resource https://journalistsresource.org/
Junior Achievement Albania: www.junior-albania.org
KTU economy and business faculty: https://2017.ktu.edu/lt/ekonomikos-ir-verslo-fakultetas/naujiena/dalijimosi-ekonomika-kaip-uzsidirbti
KTU startup space: https://en.startupspace.lt/
Lietuvos Leader www.leaderlietuva.lt/en/
Lithuanian Free Market Institute: https://en.llri.lt/
Me cambio www.mecambio.net/
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Mozaik Foundation : http://mozaik.ba/bs/pocetna-2/#home
Multiverso http://multiverso.biz/
Nacionalna zaklada za razvoj civilnog društva - https://zaklada.civilnodrustvo.hr/
Oxfam www.oxfamitalia.org
Partners Albania http://partnersalbania.org
Plataforma del Voluntariado de España www.plataformavoluntariado.org/
Portal de Economía Solidaria www.economiasolidaria.org/
Project Directory in Spain www.consumocolaborativo.com/directorio-de-proyectos/
Red de Transición www.reddetransicion.org/
Schwab Foundation www.schwabfound.org
Social Business www.socialinisverslas.lt/en/
Social Impact Award Albania http://socialimpactaward.al/?_ga=2.251033094.1854183152.1500992928-40974332.1490356125
Socifaction: http://socifaction.lt/
SocioLab www.sociolab.it/
Swiss Contact for Coaching for employment and entrepreneurship www.swisscontact.org/en/country/albania/projects/projects-albania/project/-
/show/skills-for-jobs.html
Terra Nuova www.terranuova.it
Transition Towns Movement https://transitionnetwork.org/
Unreasonable Foundation https://unreasonablegroup.com
Yunus Social Business Firenze http://sbflorence.org/
Zadruga za etično financiranje www.zef.hr
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ECORL CONSORTIUM PARTNERS
Università Popolare di Firenze-IT www.universitapopolaredifirenze.it
Federación Española de Universidades Populares-SP www.feup.org
Pula Open University -HR www.pou-pula.hr
Eu Trade-LT www.eu-trade.org
Yunus Social Business-AL http://ysbbalkans.com/
Università Telematica Uninettuno-IT www.uninettunouniversity.net
