The Guide consists of several components that support educators in their trainings for migrants who are willing to increase their language and entrepreneurial competences and guides them how to use ALMA materials. The Guide offers:
ALMA: Access to Language Methods for Increasing Migrants’ Abilities to Start Their Own Business is a European cooperation project aimed at stimulating migrants to begin a new business, to inspire and provide them with practical guidelines in order to start and run a successful company within a new cultural and linguistic context.
The Guide consists of several components that support educators in their trainings for migrants who are willing to increase their language and entrepreneurial competences and guides them how to use ALMA materials. The Guide offers:
The methodology is based on desk top research on European intercultural entrepreneurship, foreign language learning for business in Europe and academic research on setting up a business in another country and on specific research on the business cultures of the six partner countries. It provides the principles for development of the ALMA digital learning kit and the ALMA pocket guide.
The main objectives of the guidelines are to familiarize (volunteer) educators/professionals with ALMA project and, specifically, with the ALMA off- and online resources and help them use the ALMA materials in their trainings.
The methods can be used as part of the ALMA training programme at any stage of the programme. They help educators to break routines and encourage variety and innovation.
This tool aims at gathering some information prior to and after participating in ALMA Training Program. The results help educators to measure migrants’ knowledge and skills before and after the training. It also supports migrants to become aware of their own skills and abilities and become more confident when starting their own business.