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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

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Chapter 3: Steps to carry out a business project at school
Project Elaboration
When an idea is definitively validated, it has to be written down in a project.

Students will draw a “roadmap” with their objectives and the several steps to go through: identify possibilities of action, imagine a strategy, plan the implementation…

They will have to define in details the project and gather proves that it is viable, in the same way a business plan is presented to an investor.

The business plan is the reference document that will help project author, their acquaintances and future investors, have a clear vision of the project. This document has to demonstrate the solidity of the initiative providing information in a structured way.

The business usually includes the following elements:
  • Presentation of the project author (team that initiated the project and skills)
  • Proposed products and/or services, events
  • Market analysis
  • Structure of the enterprise that will be created (legal form, …)
  • Action plan (project phases)
  • Financial previsions (profitability…)
  • Investment opportunity (potential of the project…)
The summary is the most important part of the business plan. Those few lines at the head of the document will draw the investors’ attention.
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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...

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