Lifelong Learning Programme

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
This web site 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.

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

Homepage > Training > Innovative Entrepreneurial Experiences at Schools

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

Table of Content

Chapter 2: How to develop entrepreneurship at school
What mission for what objectives?
As it is emphasised in the reference document on skills and entrepreneurship published by the French Ministry of higher education, students should become actors, take their life in their own hands, whatever career they consider…

It goes through an awareness that contributes to showing students new horizons, new ways (including through one’s own activity), and through “experimentation”, which prompts them to dare take risks:

Awareness
  • To make students aware of how they picture entrepreneurship, their stereotypes, their fears/obstacles around this notion
  • To open them personal and professional perspectives, to sharpen their curiosity
  • To teach them the fundamental qualities of an enterprising individual and the related risks
  • To show them their own leadership

Experiment-based learning
  • To empower students, give them confidence, make them rise to challenges
  • To teach them to manage projects: to identify opportunities, find and collect the means, exploit those opportunities
  • To make them grasp the reality of leadership and collaboration (convincing, negotiating, piloting, organising, deciding, surrounding oneself, managing) and the outline of project structuration in its economic aspect
  • To teach them to communicate, to put things into perspective (to learn from one’s experience)
  • To make them understand room for error and the notion of trial and error
Online Resources

Table of Content

Comments on this section

In order to post a comment it is compulsory to be logged in.

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...

Follow us

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This web site 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.