Aim of the project:
Products (curricula, training material, e-shop) of the Leonardo da Vinci pilot project “Fit for E-Commerce: New business training programme for disadvantaged” (2001 – 2004) were adapted to the new target group of prison inmates who work in technical and production-related occupational fields (carpenters and other wood-working areas). The target group of “Fit for E-Commerce” were job-seekers or employed persons working in the commercial field. Coordinator of this project was bfi Wien.

The prison inmates learned to develop a conception for a virtual e-shop and implement it step by step. They worked in teams and fixed their own product range. Finally the tested e-shop is for real sale and the prison inmates can merchandise their own manufactured products. The focus of the training was on entrepreneurial competencies and basics of e-commerce. Special training for teachers was foreseen.

Products are:

• an e-shop for training as well as for real sale
• training materials
• The label “Made in Jail” shall be for merchandising the products.

There were three test-partners: penal institutions Givenich, Luxemburg, and Wien-Simmering, Austria, as well as the vocational training institute CNFPC-Ettelbruck, Luxemburg. They tested and implemented the developed e-shop. Coordinator was the Luxembourgian training institute Education4All. Other partners were an enterprise for creating websites and other programming work and FIMNew Learning, a research institute of the university of Erlangen-Nürnberg. The part of bfi Wien was the development of a new curriculum as well as the training of the teachers within special workshops.

This project funded by Leonardo da Vinci has been carried out with the support of the European Community. The content of this project does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Community or the National Agency, nor does it involve any responsibility on their part.