The Elie Project (Employability: Learning from Immigrant Entrepreneurs) This project showed us people could overcome significant barriers (language, lack of networks, lack of previous enterprise experience) and become successful entrepreneurs on migration to a new country.
The Eliemental Project. This project took elements of learning from Elie to understand how groups vulnerable to social exclusion could overcome barriers to enterprise in their own communities.
The Elie 2.0 project. This project will build on the previous two projects in creating a wider range of resources to support entrepreneurship development in local communities.
Have you ever wanted to develop enterprise skills? Improve your chances of employment? Start up a business? Eliemental is an applied research project which was funded by the European Union that continues to work with people who have barriers preventing them from taking the first steps towards developing their own enterprise.
Eliemental is based on one of the findings of an earlier project (the Elie Project); that many people who would like to be entrepreneurial are prevented from acting because of barriers in their own lives or their communities. Many of these barriers were social or cultural and participants often struggled to overcome these
The original Eliemental team were based in four countries; Romania, Greece, Poland and the UK. In each of these countries we worked with individuals who were interested in becoming more enterprising but who have found it difficult to overcome barriers that might be in their way.
53% of our participants go on to start a business, emplyment or education, and our training resources for the Eliemental programme are free and downloadable.
