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Empowering Programme for IT use: Outreach for Micro Entrepreneurship (EPITOME)

PROMOTER

The Malta Communications Authority (MCA)

PARTNER

General Retailers and Traders Union (GRTU), Employment and Training Corporation (ETC)

IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD

2010 - 2012 (30 months)

CONTEXT

Microenterprises often find it difficult to apply ICT solutions due to their small size and limited resources. This is necessary to gain a competitive edge in today’s markets, and applies to all MEs across the board.

PROJECT TYPE

Applied

BENEFICIARIES

Microenterprises

GOALS

The EPITOME project will develop and deliver a training curriculum on ICT as a robust entrepreneurial tool. Besides enhancing the ICT skills, the curriculum will provide participants with a set of entrepreneurial-oriented skills with a view to improve the flexibility and competitiveness of the Maltese worker in an increasingly challenging globalized economic environment.

ACTIONS

• Identification of ICT/Entrepreneurial training needs
• Curriculum
• Training
• Tracer study

 

 

OUTPUTS AND CONCLUSIONS

• Gap analysis
• 300 people from different micro-enterprises
• Development of a new curriculum
• Minimum of 60% gain qualifications

 

 

GROUP PROFIT

• A workforce more knowledgeable in IT
• Higher productivity