Collaborative Communities

Project EntreCompFood aims at creating, consolidating and expanding Collaborative Communities (CoCos) in the agri-food sector, all over Europe to support the development and the assessment of entrepreneurial skills in identified target groups by using EntreComp, as a central instrument for the promotion and uptake of entrepreneurship capacity.

Therefore, EntreCompFood project consideres the following territorial approach as fundamental to broaden the impact of the EntreComp usage. The events strategy of work package 2 will be organised following the subsequent territorial scale structuration: local, national and European levels:

• Local level (co-design workshops to strengthen dialogue)
• National level (national sessions to consolidate and extend the CoCos)
• European level (a European seminar and a European workshop to share ideas and disseminate results to a larger European community)

Concept of the EntreCompFood - territorial approach

Creating EntreCompFood  Collaborative Community in France, Slovenia and Spain

ENTRECOMP FOOD CHARTER 

The food sector is facing new future challenges, such as how to provide, for growing population, enough healthy food produced in a sustainable way, with limited resources due to climate change. The Covid-19 has impacted also the food chain, which enlightened the need to be proactive and innovative in order to respond successfully to the new situation. Therefore the European agri-food industry wants to attract more young people, that will be able to succeed in tackling existing and future challenges we might face. Besides learning about the agriculture, the food and the nutrition, the future employees in agri-food industry should develop the entrepreneurship competence to stimulate proactive and innovative behaviour. By overcoming the gap between education and the world of work the competitiveness of the food industry will be encouraged.

To support the development and promotion of entrepreneurial skills/spirit among students and entrepreneurs interested in the food sector, we are today within the EntreCompFood initiative creating a Collaborative Community that will gather key identified stakeholders firstly at local level (french/spanish/slovenian level) and secondly expand to European level. The EntreCompFood initiative is using EntreComp framework, developed by the European Commission, as a central tool for the promotion and uptake of entrepreneurship competences in the food sector. Entrepreneurship is when one acts upon opportunities and ideas and transform them into values for others (financial, social, cultural) and is considered as ability, that may be learned. The focus of EntreCompFood project is made on 7 specific competences that are Creativity, Vision, Ethical & sustainable thinking, Motivation and perseverance, Mobilising resources, Working with others and Learning through experience.

Events at local, national and European level, will be organised to enhance dialogue in order to build a strategic vision to allow the implementation of new learning opportunities for entrepreneurship education relevant for the food industry. As appropriate the communication and dissemination activities will be carried out by the members of the CoCo to promote the approach and the main results of the EntreCompFood initiative at local, national and EU levels.

Collaborative Action Principles of the Collaborative Community (CoCos)

Each CoCo will act as an easy-going network following the 7 principles of the Rochdale model: Voluntary and Open Membership, Democratic Member Control, Member Economic Participation, Autonomy and Independence, Education, Training, and Information, Cooperation among Cooperatives, Concern for Community.
CoCos members consider the support and promotion of entrepreneurship as key lever to ensure the competitiveness of the agri-food sector.
CoCos members give their time, according to their availability, in order to contribute to the promotion of entrepreneurship in the food sector thanks to:
the mapping of pertinent actors and initiatives
the identification of needs and expectations in terms of tools
the use and dissemination within their network of the EntreCompFood methodology
the participation in workshops within their national Coco and with the other CoCos

CoCos members will benefit from direct information from the EntreComp community and will be associated to all the events organised within the initiative. They will also be able to use and benefit from all the EntreCompFood deliverables and actions.

Benefits of the EntreCompFood approach for the different stakeholder:

Consolidating and expanding Collaborative Communities  in the agri-food sector, all over Europe

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