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In developing an online course, the project wanted to provide a means for household members to improve and raise the awareness of entrepreneurial skills gained by running a household as well as digital skills. Participants will be enabled to increase the exploitation of alternative employment pathways (e.g. entrepreneurship) and personal fulfilment.

The project partners determined 11 key learning situations (KLS) with the potential to train entrepreneurial skills faced by a household. 104 semi-structured interviews were conducted with private households, entrepreneurs, public authorities, job centres, learning institutions, household associations and quality board members of the project in each partner's country to ascertain the relevance of the 11 KLS and their contents. Eight KLS were chosen to be most relevant and the basis of the modules.

A usability test with contents of three prototype modules of the learning platform was done with test persons in Germany. The usability test provided the means to adapt the prototypes of the modules according to the test persons' opinion. The modules were tested in two pilot runs with learners from each partner's country. The experiences gained during the pilot runs served to adapt the modules ending in the completion of the online course. The modules have been revised and adapted continuously as a participatory cooperation of eight partners from six European countries.

As results, a business skills explorer online training, a business and management toolkit, and a portal for SME are available (free of charge, in English, German, Italian, Romanian and Polish languages - http://www.m-house.eu/valorisation-portal/eu-information-support/).