Best practice over the Europe for Education to Entrepreneurship – Best4Ent Erasmus Project

Project Title

Best practice over the Europe for Education to Entrepreneurship – Best4Ent

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

Unemployment, especially youth unemployment, is one of the biggest challenges contemporary Europe is facing in a constantly changing labor market: statistical data say that in Europe seventy million people do not have adequate basic and transversal skills. The 8 Key Competences, which Europe conceives as the basis for lifelong learning, define a set of knowledge, skills and attitudes that individuals need for personal development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment. Among these, the spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship (understood as an entrepreneurial mind-set) plays a fundamental role in the bester employability of young people and adults, but at the same time communication in foreign languages, digital competence, learning to learn, social competence, civic and mobility education, represents another fundamentals requirements in the scenario of the European labor market.

Young students, particularly those at risk of marginalization in conditions of social or economic disadvantage, often perceive themselves without personal development power and suffer from a low level of self-esteem and self-efficacy in managing their training, life situations and work. These premises, common to all the organizations involved in the proposal, have created the need to learn and adopt innovative practices for entrepreneurship education, improving the training offer addressed to young people between 16-20 years old. The project proposes the exchange of good practices between teachers and trainers in the sense of creating new approaches to the training path that help improve students’ skills and stimulate their motivation to learn. It is therefore intended to offer this target the opportunity to promote and enhance basic skills, personal, social and organizational skills.

Best4Ent intends to implement an exchange of good practices between training bodies in order to implement a pilot course accompanied by a manual, so-called Handbook, addressed to educators and trainers who, at various levels, deal with professional training and youth education. The intent is to stimulate entrepreneurship and communication skills, the integration and active citizenship of young students, including those in disadvantaged conditions, by proposing a model that can be replicated and transferred to various realities.

First of all, research carried out at local and transnational companies and employers will highlight the soft skills most sought after by the labor market. The final report that will follow will be the premise for the exchange of good practices and the course for teachers and trainers who will be the subject of the Handbook, OER of the project. A training event is planned for 20 teachers / trainers from the partner’s 4 countries of origin. Subsequently, thanks to the skills acquired, pilot courses will be carried out at local level (for at least 50 young people between 16 and 29 years old). 20 of these young people will also have the opportunity to participate in a transnational mobility (short-therm exchange of group of pupils) which will seek to deepen the skills and knowledge acquired in the pilot courses.

The project approach is cooperative and is based on non-formal training and techniques such as active and participated learning, learning by doing and peer-to-peer training. The exchange of good practices, the identification and involvement of the target groups, the Handbook containing the report of the soft skills sought by the World of Work and innovative ways of education for entrepreneurship will be the best results of Best4Ent.

The impact of the project will also be visible thanks to statistical surveys of the sample of beneficiaries even after the end of the project. The Best4Ent project will continue to produce results beyond the end of the project. Its sustainability is intrinsic since it is a project that is intended to enhance the key competences and training standards regarding the training modules and teaching methodologies related to the teaching and learning processes in the VET sector.

The project web portal will continue to exist at the end of the project and therefore access to all the products produced will continue to be guaranteed. Furthermore, all the subjects involved in the project partnership are training bodies with experience in supporting young people for the development of entrepreneurial skills and therefore each of them will insert the training module created among its own training and updating tools for teachers, trainers and educators.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 76421 Eur

Project Coordinator

POLARIS S.R.L. & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ALIANZA INTERNACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO DE LOS JÓVENES (AIDEJOVEN)
• Gyulai Szakképzési Centrum Kossuth Lajos Technikum, Szakképző Iskola és Kollégium
• MOBILIZING EXPERTISE AB
• Istituto Tecnico Statale Economico e Tecnologico “F. Palizzi” di Vasto