BEST FORM: Boosting EntrepreneurShip Tools FOR Migrants
(Project no. 2010-1-PT1-LEO05-05164)
Welcome to the
BEST FORM
THE COURSE IN MORE DETAILS
BEST FORM course: basic info
The course will be implemented in Portugal and Italy as partners from
these countries have large experience of implementation of immigrantoriented European projects. Portugal and Italy
The course will have a flexible approach, according to the reality of
each country.
The focus will be to train business advisors to deal with other people, to
know how to transmit the CBBA concept than to understand what this
concept is.
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The BEST FORM project focuses
on enhancing the skills of business
advisers dealing with immigrant
entrepreneurs and also on training
new business advisers within the
immigrant communities where
they live and work.
These objectives will be achieved
through a course composed of 7
modules, to be held in March
2012, addressed to new and
existing business advisors from
national
immigrant-oriented
associations, in order to test and
validate the content adaptation of
Community-Based
Business
Advise (CBBA) methodology.
By training business advisers in
immigrant-oriented associations,
BEST
FORM
will
improve
immigrants’ access to business
support services embedded in
their
own
cultural/ethnic
background,
enhancing
the
potential efficiency of such service.
Dates and venues
The BEST FORM course will be
delivered in Portugal and Italy by
three partners – SOCIEDADE
PORTUGUESA DE INOVAÇÃO (SPI
- Portugal), ASSOCIAÇÃO DE
SOLIDARIEDADE
INTERNACIONAL (ASI - Portugal)
and OXFAM (Italy).
Dates:
For SPI and ASI: 03/03, 10/03,
17/03 and 31/03.
For OXFAM: 07/03, 14/03, 17/03,
21/03, 24/03, 28/03 e 31/03.
Venues:
For SPI and ASI: Avenida Marechal
Gomes da Costa, 1376, Porto –
Portugal.
For OXFAM: Via C. Concini, 19,
Arezzo – Italy.
Course target groups:
(a) In Portugal: the focus would be on directors of immigrantoriented associations (especially those of other Portuguese
speaker countries), as they could pass the message into the
organization in a more effective way;
(b) In Italy: the main focus would be in intercultural mediators,
Italian business advisers and community leaders.
Dimension of the course target group: minimum 10
The course objective: to improve business adviser’s skills – such as
client-advisory skills, communication skills, confidence building,
business, financial and marketing knowledge, among others - helping
them getting to “hard-to-reach” clients and overcoming the obstacles
stemming from the mixed embededdness to which immigrants are
subjected (structural factors, cultural conditions and personal
characteristics).
Course modules:

Making Business Support Accessible to All

Understanding Business

Introduction to Business Start-Up

Working with Clients (Advisory Skills)

Finance for Business Advisors

Marketing for Business Advisors

Spreadsheet for Business
Trainers’ professional profile: persons experienced in immigration
issues, business support, IT and training course
Course total duration: 30 hours.
The trainees will receive Certificate of Attendance based on the
completion of the course.
If you are interested to attend the course, please contact the course
organizers (SPI, ASI and OXFAM) at their contact address given under
the section “Who we are”.
Registration for course will be open until February, 29th. We are
looking forward to your participation!
WHO WE ARE...
SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE
INOVAÇÃO
www.spi.pt
Augusto Medina / André Barbosa
(project coordinator); e-Mail:
[email protected]
XXI INVESLAN, S.L.
www.inveslan.com
Jaione Santos; e-Mail:
[email protected]
ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY
BASED BUSINESS ADVICE
www.acbba.org.uk
Armando Pardo; e-Mail:
[email protected]
OXFAM
www.oxfam.org
Caterina Casamenti; e-Mail:
[email protected]
UNIWERSYTET ŁÓDZKI
www.uni.lodz.pl
Marcin Podogrocki;
e-Mail: [email protected]
UNIVERSITATEA DIN PITESTI
www.upit.ro
Dumitru Chirlesan; e-Mail:
[email protected]
ASSOCIAÇÃO DE SOLIDARIEDADE
INTERNACIONAL
www.asi.pt
Belkis Oliveira; e-Mail: [email protected]
INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION IN
LEARNING, UNIVERSITY OF
ERLANGEN NUREMBERG
www._m.uni-erlangen.de
Sónia Hetzner; e-Mail:
sonia.hetzner@_m.uni-erlangen.de
For further information about the
pilot courses, please contact Andre
Barbosa ([email protected]) or
Caterina
Casamenti
([email protected]
rg).
www.spi.pt/bestform
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of
the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.