 Digital entrepreneurship tools and support for women entrepreneurs |
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Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
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Round Table to promote DIGI Women Curriculum in Ukraine20 January 2022 On January 20, NTU "KhPI" hosted a round table on the presentation and discussion of ways to implement the Curriculum of the training programme "DIGI Women - A set of tools for trainers". It aims to train business trainers who will train women entrepreneurs to implement digital technologies. Specialists from the Department of Strategic Management and the International Department of KhPI are among the developers of the programme. The project is implemented in partnership with organizations from Italy, Austria, Greece, Latvia, Croatia and Bulgaria under the EU Erasmus + Programme. The event was attended by representatives of the departments of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration and the City Council, the Regional Fund for Entrepreneurship Support, the Union of Entrepreneurs of the region, professors of Kharkiv universities. The meeting was opened by Prof. Gennady Khrypunov, D.Sc., Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work of NTU "KhPI". He stressed the importance of the initiative, which aims to support women entrepreneurs, and, consequently, the country's economy, and wished the participants fruitful work. The Curriculum, presented by KhPI specialists, consists of eleven modules: four compulsory, four optional (optional from 10 offered) and three on the development of pedagogical skills. The goal is to help not only to digitize business, but also to overcome the obstacles that entrepreneurs face. "The programme aims to teach IT technologies that will convey information about company products to a large audience of consumers, increase the number of customers, company revenues and increase efficiency in small business," - said one of the authors, Professor of Strategic Management at KhPI Igor Kononenko. Following the meeting, the participants of the round table identified the main directions of implementation of the programme in the Kharkiv region.
More about the Round Table: The event was attended by: Director of the Department of Economics and International Relations of Kharkiv Regional State Administration Petro Lashin, Chief Specialist of Entrepreneurship Development Department of Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Policy of the Department of Administrative Services and Consumer Market of Kharkiv City Council Ksenia Spiridonova, Head of the Digital Skills Development Department of the Digital Transformation Department of the Kharkiv City Council. Viktoriia Moiseienko, Head of the Digital Transformation Department of the Kharkiv City Council Marina Golovinova, Director of the Kharkiv Regional Fund for Entrepreneurship Support Hryhoriy Panayetov, Vice President of the Kharkiv Region Union of Entrepreneurs Vadym Kubitsa, Director of the Inter-Business Forum Consulting Company Iryna Davydova, Professor of Banking and Financial Services KhNEU them. S. Kuznets Natalia Vnukova, Professor of Software Engineering and Intelligent Technologies Management NTU "KhPI", Executive Director of the Public Association "Ukrainian Scientific and Educational IT Society" Olga Cherednichenko, entrepreneur Yuliya Vykhodets. The Curriculum "DIGI Women - A set of tools for trainers" was created within the project "DIGI Women, digital entrepreneurship tools and support for women entrepreneurs", implemented since September 2020 with the support of EU Erasmus + Programme. Members of the project team from the NTU "KhPI" are representatives of the Chair of Strategic Management and the Department of International Relations: Head of the Working Group and Academic Director of the project Prof. Igor Kononenko, Head of the Chair Assoc. Prof. Marina Grinchenko, Assoc. Prof. Karina Bukreeva, doctoral student Svetlana Lutsenko; Leading Engineer of the Department - Project Manager Irina Porunkova, Head of the Department Alexander Goncharov. The project partners are: Consulenza Direzionale di Paolo Zaramella, Italy; Greek Association of Women Entrepreneurs - SEGE, Greece; CEBSR - Cluster Experts Baltic Sea Region, Latvia; CEPOR - SMEs and Entrepreneurship Policy Center, Croatia; bit management Beratung GesmbH, Austria; the University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria - the project coordinator. |
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