Projects
HP LIFE
HP Learning Initiative For Entrepreneurs (LIFE) is a global program that trains
aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners to use IT and business skills to
create opportunities to transform their lives, and the lives of others in their
community.
LIFE Community (english)
The LIFE Community website contains content related to all the aspects of Entrepreneurship
Education, professional tips, best practices, success stories, educational games
and much more! So don't wait: join trainers and entrepreneurs on
www.becomelife.org and leave your entrepreneurial
footprint on Earth!
LIFE City
The LIFE City) is an online component of the
HP LIFE program: it is an interactive portal that provides various educational tools
focused on the business applications of widely available IT tools. The LIFE City
is translated into Chinese, Czech, French, Polish, Russian and Turkish. For English
users, the LIFE Community replaced the LIFE City in March 2011.
MAP
MAP is the Micro-enterprise Acceleration Program. MAP enables HP partners and non-profit
organizations to become certified training centers that train micro and small entrepreneurs.
The cornerstone of MAP is a curriculum for micro and small entrepreneurs, their
employees and would-be employees, on how to grow businesses using IT technology.
Center of Excellence for LIFE Program
Center of Excellence for Europe, Middle East & Africa: MEA-I is playing a key role
in the deployment of the HP LIFE Program in the EMEA region. To maximize the local
impact, MEA-I works with regional deployment partners
UNIDO for Middle East & Africa and
ORT.
Blossom and other Serious Games
Blossom Flowers is a serious game designed to teach aspiring and established micro-entrepreneurs
how to use simple technologies to boost their business - through playing online.
In the Blossom game, the player is an 'accidental' entrepreneur, left to take care
of the Blossom Flowers farm while his/her cousin Chico - the owner of the Blossom
Flowers business - is away. The player has to take care of the flowers on the farm
while at the same time making sure the business side is running smoothly. The player
has to demonstrate the right technological skills to overcome any business challenge
that may arise.
Blossom is available in English,
French,
Russian and
Chinese.
Curriculum
The LIFE Curriculum is a face to face curriculum that teaches aspiring and experienced
entrepreneurs how to use widely available IT tools to start, run and grow their
business. The LIFE Curriculum is aimed at people starting up, running, or working
in micro-enterprises. Despite representing the largest source of new jobs worldwide,
these small companies often struggle with efficiency and fail to grow beyond their
very small size. The LIFE Curriculum aims to help them overcome some of these challenges.
Trainings
We organize "Training of Trainers" session throughout the world. The LIFE Training of Trainers (TOT) is a 3-day to 5-day seminar where future LIFE trainers
learn the theory behind the LIFE Curriculum and its teaching methodology. They have
the opportunity to practice delivering topics from the LIFE Curriculum. The LIFE
TOT is a highly interactive, hands-on seminar, taught by certified Master Trainers.
Participants receive their LIFE Trainer certificate on the last day of the LIFE
TOT.
SMART Tool
Smart Tool is an online Training Management System that enables HP LIFE Centers
to manage, monitor and report their training activities. Through this tool, the
centers are able to register their students for the LIFE training. At the end of
the training, the students receive a LIFE certificate from this tool, upon request
of their HP LIFE trainer. HP LIFE Centers can generate reports on the trainings
their trainers have delivered, and on the students who attended. This tool is specifically
useful for multi-site organizations to provide an overview on the trainings delivered
in different locations
Skills for LIFE
MEA-I organizes face to face trainings for large organizations and ministry of education.
Lately, the Ministry of Education of Kuwait, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard
(HP) and MEA-I from Geneva, successfully launched the HP LIFE Program within the
e-Learning initiative in Kuwait (March 2011). From March 20th to 31st, more than
220 teachers from the Kuwait Ministry Of Education were trained on the "Skills For
LIFE" curriculum.