Beyond The Limits: Developing Entrepreneurship via Creativity in Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Beyond The Limits: Developing Entrepreneurship via Creativity in Schools

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 higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Entrepreneurship can be defined as the process of creating value for business and social communities by bringing together unique combinations of public and private resources to exploit economic, social or cultural opportunities in an environment of change. Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others. Creativity is a matter of ability. The learner’s creative potential has to be encouraged. Entrepreneur is the driver of creativity. Creative thinkers are like good investors into their life and future. Entrepreneurship education seeks to provide students with the knowledge, skills and motivation to encourage entrepreneurial success in a variety of settings. The main objective of the project is to develop entrepreneurship skills using creativity in education. To achieve this aim, the project activities will be developing ICT-based educational materials and an entrepreneurship curriculum, organizing IP programs for students and teacher training programs for teachers and principals, carrying out a research to determine the level of entrepreneurship skills of the students, publishing a book, maintaining an online education system, making movies about project activities and organizing international conference.

The project which is very innovative in its nature with the emphasis of the creative practices will contribute to academic literature and develop a lecture curriculum for entrepreneurship in higher education. Methodologically, creativity in entrepreneurship has been explained through cognitive processes, attitudes motivation, existing knowledge, work environment and personality traits. By providing rich and varied contexts for pupils to acquire, develop and apply a broad range of knowledge, understanding and skills, the curriculum should enable students to think creatively and critically, to solve problems and to make a difference for the better. It should give them the opportunity to become social, creative, innovative, enterprising and capable of leadership to equip them for their future lives as workers and citizens.

So, in this project, the project partnership will especially concentrate on how entrepreneurship in education can be developed using creativity for all students and shareholders of education and training community and academicians as well. The target groups of the project will be all of the shareholders of education and training process like university students, teacher trainers, educational leaders, researchers and academicians. Main activities of the program will include the need analysis researches and SWOT analysis about students’ creativity and entrepreneurship skills levels, IP program for students (ICT materials, online and face to face lectures, workshops, case studies of best practices from business area), curriculum development about entrepreneurship lessons from high school to undergraduate and master levels. Curriclums will be developed based on Taba-Tyler Programming Approaches.
All participants will be awarded attendance certificate and students will have 6 (six) ECTS credits and YouthPass from each IP program (Sakarya University and Lieapaja University). Moreover, international conferences will be organized to develop consciousness among students , researchers, academicians and all papers will be published to increase academic literature as well. In addition, international conferences about creativity and entrepreneurship in education will be organized, each partners will have a chance to bring some undergraduate and graduate students from their country to these conferences. Moreover, we will bring some amazing keynote speakers to the conferences and all conference papers will be published as e-proceeding book via Beyondthelimits web site to increase dissemination and multiplify effect of the project. All project activities will be shared with local media organs as news via web sites and university web pages such as habersau web portal and social media tools of the project. Moreover, a book will be published as e-version and as a hard copy. Project activities will be disseminated via university web pages and local media in all partner countries. At the end of the academic presentation of IP programs, the outputs of academic studies will be combined and will be published by each project partner. International conferences will be held in Granada University and Padova University.
Each activity will be managed by a leading partner. The project will be managed based on the principle of task-oriented leadership and equal responsibility sharing. The leadership responsibilities in the project were determined on the basis of expertise and volunteering.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 213545 Eur

Project Coordinator

SAKARYA UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
• UNIVERSITATEA AGORA
• UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA
• LIEPAJAS UNIVERSITATE
• CENTRO STUDI CULTURA SVILUPPO ASSOCIAZIONE
• DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY