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3. Entrepreneurs - Future or Current Crafters and artisans’ entrepreneurs (in a broader sense)
which are facing difficulties in their business set-up, being in transformation period need to re-
brand their businesses in the different fields e.g., artists, painters, performers, musicians.

Inception meetings

The first activity supporting the analysis of data for the preparation of the MicroHUB Competence
Matrix was the organization of inception meetings, classified as qualitative research.

Inception meetings were organized with local and national stakeholders in order to identify the
situation of crafters and artisans in the target countries (Slovakia, Malta, Ireland, Poland, Bulgaria,
Sweden and Greece).

Information regarding the situation in competencies and skills of microenterprises in use and in need
were collected in each MicroHUB partner country. The topics covered came from the to the European
Competence Framework (EntreComp).

The inception meetings took the form of semi-structured interviews in online mode.

Partners were provided a scenario a suggested scenario for preparation of the inception meeting and
a template for reporting the collection of valuable feedback. Attendees answered open-ended
questions during the 4-hour appr. lasting meetings. Annex 1 corresponds to the suggested scenario
that was used and Annex 2 to the inception meeting reporting template.

It was estimated that there would be 10 participants to inception meetings per partnering country,
representing the group of stakeholders, or 70 in total.

Through inception meetings, the MicroHUB Consortium reached 77 participants.

✓ 17 in Malta
✓ 15 in Slovakia
✓ 10 in Poland
✓ 10 in Bulgaria
✓ 10 in Greece
✓ 8 in Sweden
✓ 7 in Ireland

Field research

The second activity supporting the analysis of data MicroHUB Competence Matrix was field research,
classified as quantitative research.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This communication
reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use
which may be made of the information contained therein.