Teaching and Learning in Entrepreneurial Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Teaching and Learning in Entrepreneurial Education

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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

The project context is the growing problem of youth unemployment across Europe. Although recently brought to crisis by the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, youth unemployment is a long-standing problem linked to an education system that inculcates an outdated set of skills. Profound changes to the labour market caused by globalisation over the past three decades have prioritised a new set of skills – less to do with knowledge and hard skills and more to do with creative and critical thinking, digital innovation, and a mindset of flexibility and resilience. At present, young people are leaving education without these life skills and unprepared to deal with uncertainty and rapid change.
The project is a programme of teacher development with new education materials and delivery models in the area of entrepreneurship education, where studies (such as Eurydice 2018) identify the need for new approaches.
In particular it explores how the approaches of global learning can add value to entrepreneurship education, focusing on core skills of creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and citizenship to help young people develop the inventiveness and out-of-the-box thinking needed for successful social and economic enterprise.
The project is led by Global Education Derby, a specialist educational charity that works with educators to develop global citizenship, and has project partners in the UK, Germany, Estonia, Turkey and Slovenia The group is made up of three secondary schools, and three organisations focused on teacher education and support. All have a common concern about the challenge their young people face in dealing with precarious employment.
At the centre of the project is a core group of 8 practising teachers who, as part of completing advanced professional development, will develop and pilot a training package for Entrepreneurship Education teachers customised to their national setting, support those teachers in the implementation of real world student enterprise programmes, and document the process as a web-based resource. Around 60 teachers will be directly involved in these activities developing new skills to act as facilitator (as opposed to a lecturer), and use project-based approaches to develop the core skills of creative and critical thinking amongst their students.
The web-based resource will provide guidance materials for teacher trainers and access to free online training for teachers as well as a supporting resource bank of case studies, lesson plans and curriculum ideas that will extend the project impact to reach many hundreds of additional teacher trainers, teachers and other education practitioners.
In developing these new educational resources the project will work directly with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Some are children of recent migrants, others with special educational needs and disabilities, all underachieving academically and facing limited and precarious employment opportunities.
In the longer term the project outputs are intended to help European teachers ensure their young people have appropriate skills and attitudes to make a successful transition from education to employment or self-employment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 114796 Eur

Project Coordinator

Global Education Derby & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Karsiyaka Cihat Kora Anadolu Lisesi
• Dr.-Jaufmann Mittelschule Bobingen
• THE GLADE CENTRE
• Drustvo Bodi svetloba
• Põlva Gümnaasium