Page 1 - Introduction

JIMINY SELF-HELP HANDBOOK 1

JIMINY Self-Help Handbook has been developed within in the framework of the project JIMINY
(Journey to lncrease your techniques of eMotional lntelligence, digital awareNess and
entrepreneurship lifestYle), No.: 2019-1-RO01-KA204-063136, financed by the EU through the
Erasmus+ Programme, Key action 2 (Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices),
Strategic partnership for adult education and implemented by a consortium of 7 organisations in 7
partner countries – ADES (Romania), CWEP (Poland), Symplexis (Greece), Mindshift Talent Advisory
(Portugal), INNOHUB (Spain), CCS DIGITAL EDUCATION (Ireland) and LABC (Italy).
The main goal of the project is to increase the techniques of emotional Intelligence, digital awareness
and entrepreneurship lifestyle among the disadvantaged groups’ members (low qualified persons,
unemployed, adults at poverty risk, etc.) and adult educators from the partners’ countries.

This goal is achieved through the development of the
1. Present JIMINY Self-help Handbook, which provides different techniques for improving the
emotional intelligence, digital awareness and entrepreneurship lifestyle
2. JIMINY Personal Trainer, which will be an artificial intelligence-driven personal trainer capable of
acting as an end-to-end solution securing and supporting the whole learning and upskilling
processes. JIMINY Personal Trainer will be able to diagnose individual needs and provide a
customized learning path as an instant remedy.

The target groups of JIMINY Project and beneficiaries of its results are members of disadvantaged
groups (low qualified persons, unemployed, adults at poverty risk, etc.) and adult educators.
Through the activities of the project, the seven partners seek to improve the situation of the
disadvantaged groups’ members increasing their employability on a rapid changing and high
demanding labour market, as well as to create tools for the institutions which support and take care
of disadvantaged adults, such as: adult education centres, social welfare institution, schools for adults,
third age universities, associations supporting disadvantaged adults and fighting with social exclusion,
local and regional self-government education departments and adult educators.

The Self-Help Handbook includes three main Chapters which mirror the three topics tackled by JIMINY
project. Each Chapter has different subchapters:

1. Emotional Intelligence:
1.1. What is Emotional Intelligence, Self-Awareness, Self-Management
1.2. Social Awareness, Social Management, Action Planning
2. Digital Awareness:
2.1. What are Digital Skills and why do we need them? How to use digital resources/content?
2.2. How to create digital resources/content? How to use social media?
3. Entrepreneurship Lifestyle:
3.1. What does it mean to have an entrepreneurship lifestyle/ thinking? How to take economically
safe decisions?
3.2. Why we need to assume the responsibility of our own experiences? How to connect our
dreams with our skills and a market opportunity? How to maximize our resources and effort
to achieve the goals we desire?
3.3. Validation of the competence “Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship” of adults with fewer
opportunities.