The second Training of Trainers of the SLEEK project takes place at the University of Alicante, Spain

From 29 September to 2 October 2025, the University of Alicante (UA) hosted the second Training of Trainers (ToT2) of the Erasmus+ SLEEK project (Sierra Leone Education in Entrepreneurial Pedagogy and Skills), which also included a management meeting and a study visit.

The programme began with the management meeting, held at the Faculty of Education at the University of Alicante, where the consortium started preparing the next phases of the project, including the upcoming Training of Trainers to be held in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

The training was organised over several sessions, combining theoretical content with practical activities. Topics addressed included the generation and evaluation of business ideas and the identification of opportunities, delivered by Professor Antonio Antón (Department of Business Organisation, UA); creativity as a source of value and the development of entrepreneurial competences, led by Eduardo Sánchez (Department of Business Organisation, UA); the application of active learning methodologies in the classroom, presented by Javier Martínez Falcó (Department of Business Organisation, UA); and self-awareness in the entrepreneurial context, delivered by María Martínez Lirola (Department of English Studies, UA).

The study visit, in turn, focused on gaining first-hand insight into the University of Alicante’s institutional strategies in lifelong learning, micro-credentials and continuing education. In this context, Teresa Torregrosa, Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at UA, presented the university’s institutional model for lifelong learning, while Rosana Satorre and Maximiliano Saiz, from the Institute of Education Sciences (ICE), shared their experience in teacher training. In addition, initiatives for inter-university collaboration in entrepreneurship education were presented, including the BIKE project, introduced by Noelia López from the Institutional Projects Office of the University of Alicante (OGPI).

This meeting helped establish methodological and pedagogical foundations intended to serve as a bridge for generating and developing practices that can be transferred to the institutional contexts of Sierra Leone.