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A collection of tests is available to be used by school counsellors and students to assess aptitudes and skills.
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Abilities Tests
These tests, produced by the project experts, have been designed to unveil students’ abilities.
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Database of Aptitudes Tests
These tests, identified and reviewed by the project experts, measure the aptitude of the students.
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Database of Skills Tests
These tests, identified and reviewed by the project experts, measure the skills of the students
This section offers the access to a collection of tools to guide the students to choose their professional carrier.
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Job Profiles
The most researched job profiles have been identified in 6 countries.
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Skills
The most relevant skills for the labour market in the 6 countries involved have been identified.
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Entrepreneurship
From this section it is possible to access learning objects to promote entrepreneurial spirit among students.
What is the secret of success? This section might offer you an answer
Successful Entrepreneurs
A collection of interviews with successful entrepreneurs.
Successful Employees
A collection of interviews with successful employees.
Successful People
A collection of interviews with successful people.Six training modules are available for school teachers and counsellors to provide them with the skills to guide students in their professional carrier.
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1. Understanding Pupils
A module presenting the strategies to understand the pupils' personal aptitudes and characteristics
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2. Capitalise on Pupils Interests and Skills
A module presenting methodologies to build up on the students' interests in order to implement personalised educational paths
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3. World of Work
A module presenting tools and mechanisms available for young people to make a successful transition from school to work
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4. Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools
A module presenting initiatives and strategies to foster entrepreneurship among students
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5. Mobility to Learn and Work
A module presenting the opportunities to study, carry out voluntary services and work experiences abroad
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6. Guidance, Counselling and Support Services
A module focusing on how to provide effective guidance, counselling and support to students
Events
The School&Work project has been promoted trough conferences and articles.
Conferences
The School&Work project was presented in a number of events in order to report about the activities carried out and the results achieved.
Press Review
The School&Work project partnership made contacts with web sites focusing on the fields of education.Network
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Contractual Partners
From this section it is possible to access to a description of each contractual partner of the School&Work project.
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Schools
From this section it is possible to access to the information about the schools involved in the School&Work Project in the 6 European countries involved.
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Associated Partners
As a result of the exploitation activity a number of associated partners officially joined the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project impact on their target groups and to ensure the project sustainability by continuing using the project deliverables in the next years.
This section of the School&Work portal provides administrative information for the project contractual partners and for the European Commission and it is password protected.
Training
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This module focuses on initiatives and training to stimulate entrepreneurship among students, suggesting ideas to train entrepreneurial teachers, presenting entrepreneurial projects carried out in schools and proposing methods to create a network and to find funds.
Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools
During the Workshop on crowdfunding organised in Brussels on the 3rd of June 2013, Commissioner BARNIER emphasise that “crowdfunding has the potential to become an important vehicle of the new growth model to invent”.
He specifies that:
- In a time when banks are still reluctant to grant credits, crowdfunding makes it possible to fund projects that are excluded from traditional financial systems
- Beyond the strictly financial aspect, project authors can with crowdfunding test their idea among a community of potential investors, who can then form an a priori faithful customer base.
- Crowdfunding is a powerful innovation vehicle, thanks to which entrepreneurs can create their enterprises proposing innovative services.
- Encouraging people to invest, even small sums, in projects they believe in, crowdfunding can contribute to improve entrepreneurship and social cohesion on our continent
What is crowdfunding?
It consists in putting a project author into contact with investors through a website.
Unknown people are contacted to fund a project of an economic, cultural, educational, artistic… type. Nowadays, crowdfunding concerns nearly all types of projects in all areas.
No need to go through a bank or a loan organisation anymore to start: financial intermediation is carried out through the Internet.
It is very effective, and all the more promising that the phenomenon is developing fast thanks to the internet and the maturity of social networks.
The project author who wants to get into action can quickly gather people around their project. However, they should not get their ambitions too high, they must be able to define their objective and to tell a story.
Yet, crowdfunding is not a magical tool! Contributions are not heaven-sent. The success of the fund-raising campaign will depend on the energy spent by the project author.
Resorting to crowdfunding thus means resorting to funding by “the crowd”. It is different from a traditional fundraising. Indeed:
- If crowdfunding also addresses a large number, it all happens online and with a younger audience.
- In crowdfunding, support does not go to an institution like in fundraising, but to a project.
- In crowdfunding, a community is addressed to, like on social networks, a community that is going to be informed and called to join the project (an audience who is taken with the project and wants to support it right away)
- Unlike the traditional fundraising, which is thought on the long term, crowdfunding can gather people around a project in a short time and without huge means.
In the United States, this technique called “peer-to-peer landing” was born in the early years 2000, with the platform “Kickstarter.
After Kickstarter, many platforms have developed around the world. There are now several hundreds of them.
According to the figures provided by enterprises active in the area, the amount of funds collected around the world through crowdfunding has almost doubled between 2011 and 2012, from 1.1 billion euros to over 2 billion.
There is the same dynamic in Europe, where crowdfunding platforms have collected 446 million euros in 2011 and 735 million in 2012, and have funded 470,000 projects (Commissioner Barnier’s Communication).
- Entrepreneurship 2020Reigniting the entrepreneurial spirit in Europe, communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, Council, Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Brussels, January 2013.
- Financement participatif : quel(s) cadre(s) mettre en place au niveau européen pour en saisir le potentiel tout en limitant les risques ? Communication of Commissioner M. Barnier, Brussels, 3rd of June 2013
- KickstarterKickstarter is a vibrant community of people working together to bring new things to life. This platform was elected by Time Magazine best invention in 2010. Kisckstater has already collected nearly 200 million dollars and participated in the development of 20,000 projects.
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Date: 2016.08.03
Posted by S. Cabrerizo - Spain
The e-learning guide is very useful. Module 4, Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools, provides easy examples for teachers.
The negative side is is that there is a lot of information in English, and sometimes it is difficult to follow it if you have an intermediate level of English. Moreover, as a suggestion, I think it could be a good idea to have it in a download version to print the most interesting parts.
Date: 2016.07.07
Posted by Didier Cahour - France
This module is a little bit complex and theoretical. Good practices at the end are relevant.
Date: 2016.07.06
Posted by Gabriela Vrabie - Romania
This module highlights a very important aspect of education: entrepreneurship education in schools, vocational schools and universities, which will definitely have a positive impact on entrepreneurial dynamism in our economies, on young people’s employability.
To this end it not only raises teachers and counsellors’ awareness about the benefits of enterprise projects but also provides them with invaluable tips on how to implement such enterprise projects at their own school. Teachers and counsellors will find practical advice on the necessary steps in creating an enterprise project at school, how an enterprise works or how to search for funds such as crowdfunding. The module also proposes teachers, educators or guidance counsellors a series of best practices to get inspired from.
Date: 2016.07.05
Posted by Martine Prignon (AEDE-EL) - Belgium
The choice of topics and the study of them provide a valuable source of information to teachers, trainers, counselors...
The best practices and online resources add a useful complement to theory, by presenting concrete examples of experiences, projects, exchanges between peers...
