Project Erasmus +

Let us be your BUSINESS INCUBATOR!

DIGIfreelancer aims to create a reference model to provide an adequate entrepreneurial and digital training to freelancers, not only to support and empower the category at a European level, but also to provide these workers with valuable and effective tools so that they can start or manage a continuous and valuable professional activity.

The Freelance Economy

The Freelance Economy is becoming increasingly important. The 2008 financial crisis marked the introduction of freelancers as a new type of “service providers” onto the market. With the Pandemic many employees turned into freelancers, or are planning to do it.

Not only digital

This trend does not concern only digital professions, that since their inception found their natural outlet in the formula of freelance work! In fact it is emerging in every field of service, whether craft or intellectual. And it is a global trend to be taken into account.

The project

DIGIfreelancer stays for “Digital and business
skills for an incubator for freelance entrepreneurship”.

It is a two-year project funded by the Erasmus + Program, and its aim is to support and empower the freelance workers category, by creating an innovative, reference model to provide adequate entrepreneurial and digital training to these professionals, so that they can start or manage a continuous and valuable professional activity.

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The main target groups of DIGIfreelancer are:

Existing & Wannabe freelancers

Employee with a side project

Professionals and consultants

VET trainers

Our Goals

In line with the indications of the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, the project aims to strengthen the freelance workers segment, in order to:

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Reduce the ‘mortality rate’ of freelance professionals, with positive effects on overall unemployment;

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Reduce recourse to income support policies for those employees who find themselves out of work;

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Encourage the spread of new business opportunities in the digital age;

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Improve the overall income of the freelance category;

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Reduce “undeclared work” in favour of more stable and well-paid jobs;

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Promote a work style with a better work-life balance;

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Reduce the dissatisfaction rate of workers, who would be engaged in a job that they are passionate about and allows them to use their talents.

Our Partners

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OVERVIEW OF THE FREELANCE WORLD IN EUROPE

A wide research in order to deliver a timely and accurate snapshot of the world of freelancing in Europe.

ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAINING OF FREELANCERS

The partnership will analyse the most popular training models -currently dedicated only to startups and companies-, in order to understand which are the most useful training steps that can be proposed also to freelancers.

The Handbook

Final output of phase two will be a Handbook aimed to be a guide for the creation of the freelance incubator model that can be adopted and replicated throughout Europe.

IMPLEMENTATION OF A DIGITAL INCUBATOR

The implementation of the digital incubator for freelancers will allow to bring the business model developed in the previous phase into reality.

Project
Results

DIGIfreelancer aims to carry out:

a nationwide and European-wide survey of freelance services
a methodology for VET trainers for coaching freelancers
an OER platform acting as a virtual incubator for freelance business and aspiring freelancers.