Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Plus Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Entrepreneurial Skills Plus

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

More than a decade since the 2006 Recommendation in a radically changed world, the Commission proposes a revision of the European Reference Framework for Key Competences, as those required today have changed; international data indicate a constantly high proportion of adolescents and adults with insufficient basic skills. It is therefore more important than ever to invest in basic skills. Among the main objectives the European Commission highlights the following:
to support the development of entrepreneurial skills to develop essential skills and attitudes, including creativity, initiative, teamwork, an understanding of risk and a sense of responsibility
The partner schools have intended to respond to this need by structuring a work that uses the Spirit of initiative and entrepreneurship as a driving force to develop the other key competences.
The partner schools are 5: these are generalistic institutes, 4 are public and one is a private school (Estonia).
Approximately 1200 students will be involved out of 2100 students attending, of which about 200 with fewer opportunities, from infant, primary and secondary level, between 3 and 14 years of age; schools from France and Estonia, without infant school, will involve children aged 7 and up. 80 student mobilities will be carried out (including at least 20 students with fewer opportunities) with ages between 9 and 14 years. The teachers involved will be about 90 out of 236, 60 the planned mobilities.
There will be 5 Joint Staff Training Events contemporaneously with 5 Exchanges of groups of pupils with the following order: France, Spain, Poland, Italy, Estonia.

The idea of ​​the project is to simulate the creation and management of micro-enterprises in various sectors of activity:
1) primary sector (farms, plant nurseries, floriculture)
2) secondary sector (local crafts)
3) tertiary sector (trade, tourism, other services)
The teaching methodology identified is that of Project Based Learning, as it is designed to put each student in a student-worker condition, learning to collaborate, to think critically, to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
The activities are divided into 4 blocks, each led by a partner and ends with the international mobility hosted by the latter.
The first block is related to the primary sector (agriculture) led by Spain.
The second is related to the primary sector (plant nurseries and floriculture) led by Poland
The third is related to the secondary sector (crafts) led by Italy
The fourth is related to the tertiary sector (tourist activities, eg hotels, b & b, restaurants, etc) and is led by Estonia
Finally, the French school will lead the cross-cutting thematic block, related to the management of a small business travel and tourism promotion agency, which will promote the local territory of each of the participating partner countries.
At each international meeting, each partner will show the activity to others and take part in the activities proposed by the other ones.
During the international meetings, we will share the Evaluation Report and the Good Practices Manual and revise the budget management.

The central objective of the project consists in the research of teaching methodologies and strategies to allow young people, with particular regard to those in disadvantaged situations, to develop the key competences indicated by the EU. It is also proposed to improve the quality of early childhood education, as specialist studies show that this favors the whole process of lifelong learning, and allows to reach higher levels of competences, especially on pupils in clear disadvantged situations.

The concrete results that we aim to produce are:
1) raising the levels of competence in pupils (to be measured with common and shared evaluation rubrics)
2) reduction of the statistical dispersion of the levels of competence and decrease of the percentage of students in the lower levels
3) equip teachers with teaching tools aimed at improving key competences, summarized in a Manual of Good Practices
The organizations will also have at their disposal the Evaluation Report on the results, the website, the channels on social networks, the project material on the E-twinning portal.
In the longer term, the partner schools are expected to register: increase of pupils motivation, increase of teachers’ professionalism, integration in the school curriculum of the good practices of the project, improvement of the image of the school and its attractiveness to the outside.
The partners intend to continue the activity of experimentation and exchange of good practices, after the conclusion of the project, activating E-Twinnings, to deepen the most promising themes or to correct those that appeared less effective.

Project Website

https://yesplus.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 60395 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo di Alba Adriatica & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny Publiczna Szkola Podstawowa im. Janusza Korczaka w Jaroszowie
• CEIP SAN JOSÉ DE CALASANZ
• Ecole 291 Rue des Pyrénées
• Sakala Eragumnaasium Mittetulundusühing SAKALA ERAGÜMNAASIUM