Virtual Business Skills Empowerment

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Recent figures show that about one third of all employed persons in advanced countries work remotely in virtual teams. As recent Covid-19 pandemic exposed, in times of crisis virtual teams become the only means of functioning for organizations’ activities. In this context, being able to work in virtual teams is one of the basic skills for the employability of prospective graduates. However, while different aspects of digital transformation are covered in educational programmes of higher education institutions (HEIs), a clear focus on building of skills for work in virtual teams is lacking. For European society to prosper in a digital era, there is a need to empower European youth to harness the benefits of working in virtual and multi-cultural teams.



VIBES is co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Program of the European Commission and it brings together 7 Partners from 5 countries (Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Switzerland).
Project period
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Project state
Finished
Project area
International
Project funding
Erasmus 2014-2020
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LAB role
Partner
Unit
Business and Hospitality Management
Project focus area
Intangible value creation
Objectives
The main aim of VIBES (Virtual Business Skills Empowerment) is to enhance students virtual teamworking competences to cope better in today’s global working environment and create and develop entrepreneurial opportunities for the European single market. By co-creating innovative approaches to support collaborative capabilities, networking opportunities, and innovation and strategic skills development, the objectives of VIBES are: to develop the innovation and entrepreneurial capabilities of the students and to support the extension of these capabilities and modules as potential development resources for SME’s that need innovative intrapreneurs.
Outcomes
The point is to develop and extend innovative virtual teams to produce new entrepreneurial business capabilities and opportunities, while developing a more sustainable individual skillset that can more readily adapt and

create emerging market opportunities. Rather than training people for existing roles which are rapidly becoming obsolete VIBES aims at developing an entrepreneurial attitude to understand that a constant evolution of individual and organizational capabilities is needed as a response to emergent opportunities. We believe that improving the capabilities of individuals to effectively participate in virtual transnational teams is a viable approach to sustainable economic development.



Virtual collaboration space will be created on an existing platform. In this space, we share the learning materials after which the space starts to live its own life: teachers implement the module, share their experiences, and suggest ideas how to do better and differently. In addition, multiplier effect should serve the purpose of presenting intellectual results and transaction for interorganizational as well as intercultural collaboration and exchange.
Sustainable Development Goals
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