Developing Youth Entrepreneurial Talent Erasmus Project

Project Title

Developing Youth Entrepreneurial Talent

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Labour market issues incl. career guidance / youth unemployment

Project Summary

In this time of loss of values, great difficulties and financial uncertainty, young people needed help and a guidance for their future life.
Everybody dreams a successful career and school education has a fundamental role in giving our students the right knowledge and skills to enter the labor market.
Cyprus, Italy, Poland,Portugal and Czech Republic joined together in order to provide our students, aged 14-19, with career guidelines and an entrepreneurial education in a European dimension.
Each school had 4-7 pupils, directly participated in each mobility plus a large team of students and teachers beyond that who helped to prepare the tasks ( PPt presentations, videos, etc.) for the 5 LTTAs as well as the subsequent distribution of the learning outcomes.
We especially emphasized on the mobilities of those pupils who, faced financial difficulties and have never had a chance to go abroad.
The project aimed to: give our students a guidance to explore job opportunities in Europe and how to apply for a job, given them an entrepreneurship education that can provide them with the knowledge and skills for an entrepreneurial success in order to turn ideas into actions and gave them the opportunity of creating a job, inspire them to be more self confidence, in order to get the jobs they really want to pursue in their life, improved their English language skills and their ITCs build and develop the 21st century skills: critical thinking, problem solving, research practices, creativity, imagination, innovation, planning, initiative, leadership, teamwork.
In order to achieve these goals, a training program on career guidance and entrepreneurship held by international experts and was fulfilled during the 5 LTTAs. Our focus was on lectures, workshops, company visits and meetings with entrepreneurs. The methods chosen aimed at transferring knowledge, inspiration, and motivation, in fact all the activities were focused on pupils, enabling them to explore new ideas and put them to good use, to be innovate and creative. Learning by doing will be predominant as the interaction and communication between pupils and teachers, experts and entrepreneurs from 5 different countries of the EU play a very important role. They worked in international teams and were encouraged to widely use ITC through web searches, used of softawares, applications, etc.
All those practiced and used fostered their social, language and technological competences and prepared them as much as possible for their future career.
The results we tried to achieved and to produce were: an international e-guide for entrepreneurship that could help trainers and users in what to know and learn in the process of how setting up a national/international business.
– a glossary was created to include of technical business words and five national business plans and a sample of an international company
-e-diary a detailed documentation of the project L/T/TA with video and photo for the website.
– Attending the training program and working on the preparation of the above outputs, students gained a deep insight into occupational opportunity and were acquired with the abilities to start companies. This provided our students instill trust and added a positive impact on their attitude towards their future lives.
The e-guide will be a very useful resource tool for the future dissemination, as it can be integrated in the curriculum of the schools. This ensures that the European entrepreneurial spirit will be passed on to future pupil-generations in the subsequent years. All the material produced will be available on the project website, pictures and comments about the project will be posted on Facebook and Instagram and the results will also be published on E-twinning and on the Erasmus+ Platform.
The project will be also advertised through leaflets/ brochures and some paper copies of the e-guide that will be distributed to schools, universities, companies and associations for the dissemination.

Project Website

https://sites.google.com/view/dyet.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 129031,35 Eur

Project Coordinator

TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING LARNAKA & Country: CY

Project Partners

• Escola Secundária Vitorino Nemésio
• Obchodni akademie a Jazykova skola s pravem statni jazykove zkousky
• III Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Adama Mickiewicza w Katowicach
• ITIS “S. CANNIZZARO”