Integrating Sport and Recreational Activities into Entrepreneurial Education in Secondary Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Integrating Sport and Recreational Activities into Entrepreneurial Education in Secondary 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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

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

Project Summary

The project is a joint initiative of a sports school, two universities, 2 public authorities responsible for education, and a private organization committed to promoting entrepreneurial learning and the link between education and business. The 6 partners represent 4 European countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.
TARGET GROUPS
Even though the project results may be useful for the wider youth work sector and other educational sectors, the project primarily addresses the needs of the following target groups:
-secondary school students
-secondary school educators in the sport-related disciplines and teachers in schools with sport profile
-regional/local educational authorities
CONTEXT
Across Europe, there is a broad consensus that entrepreneurial education has a positive impact on the competences, problem-solving skills and employability of students. As a result, entrepreneurial learning is being increasingly integrated into a variety of disciplines, such as engineering and the arts. However, even though sport is taught at all levels of education, it has generally been excluded from these developments. This project is built on the rationale that sport has cultural, social and educational functions that provide plenty of opportunities for innovations and even business. If provided with supporting resources, schools and educators can utilize the enthusiastic student engagement with sport to teach students to identify opportunities, lead others, and develop sport ventures or sport organizations. The combination of sport and entrepreneurship learning in extracurricular activities can thus build students’ transversal entrepreneurial skills and create motivation, passion and awareness to get engaged in business or social activities in the field of sport.
OBJECTIVES
The project’s overall objective is to contribute to integrating sport into entrepreneurial learning in secondary schools.
The specific objectives are to:
-Develop a training program on sport management, coaching and physical education that could build students’ technical and transversal competences for sport-based entrepreneurship and leadership
-Develop challenge-based learning tools and WebQuests related to sports-based entrepreneurship to enable a more effective and engaging learning process
-Develop methodological guidance for teachers on designing and delivering sport-based entrepreneurial learning.
MAIN ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
The partnership will produce the following intellectual outputs:
1. Extracurricular integrated training program on Sport-Based Entrepreneurship and Coaching
2. Challenges and WebQuests Toolkit on Sports-Based Entrepreneurship
3. Methodological guidelines for educators
The following events will be organized during the project:
-3 workshops for students
-4 dissemination conferences
-3 practical sports-based entrepreneurial activities with student participation
-5 trainings of trainers

EXPECTED IMPACTS
At local level the project targets schools and educators, as well as students themselves. It will raise awareness that school sport activities can be utilized to build knowledge and skills. It will also provide guidance and resources for schools to experiment with the integration of sport into entrepreneurial learning and will train the first cohort of students and educators. The desired long-term impacts are to improve entrepreneurial learning in secondary schools, to facilitate stronger involvement of low-performing students in entrepreneurial learning, to contribute to enhancing graduates’ employability, and to provide new professional development opportunities for physical education teachers.
At regional and national level, the project will target regional public bodies responsible for education. The desired short to medium term impact is to improve the strategies for supporting entrepreneurial learning and practical entrepreneurial opportunities through utilizing the multitude of sport activities currently being organized in schools, as well as to promote the use of challenge-based and experiential learning in physical education. The desired long-term impact is to support secondary schools in exploiting the educational impact of physical education and in utilizing sport’s contribution to skills building.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164267 Eur

Project Coordinator

57 Sports School “Saint Naum Ohridski” & Country: BG

Project Partners

• EUROPEAN CENTER FOR QUALITY OOD
• MUGLA IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU
• UCLAN CYPRUS LIMITED
• TEKIRDAG NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITESI
• Directorate of Secondary Education, Chania