Pilot Project: Entrepreneurship Education for University Students Erasmus Project

Project Title

Pilot Project: Entrepreneurship Education for University Students

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

In last years there is a strong call for entrepreneurial education and training for young people according to European youth employment policy. And so, there is a lack of training for teachers how to teach entrepreneurial skills to young people and provide adequate training in entrepreneurship for students at universities. This project developed methodology for university teachers and develop evaluation certificate for absolvents of this training. We prepared tool which is international, because the topic of youth unemployment is the European topic and nearly every country tackle with high numbers of youth unemployment. We had three project partners to gain this goal and we had three main outcomes in the project. Outcome 1: Methodology of entrepreneurship training for Tomas Bata University. Outcome 2: Case study of implementing methodology for european universities (english and czech versions, case study is easier to understand, contains description of developing methodology, examples of use, video documentation, description of problems and fails and also achievements). Outcome 3: Evaluation tool for students and teachers and International Certificate for absolvents of training. Partner organisations are JA Europe, JA Czech, Denmark Foundation for Entrepreneurship. Nonprofit partners are MEP Michaela Šojdrová and TheoPraxCentre and Technologické inovační centrum in Zlín. Project duration was 2 years. We organized one dissemination event Barcamp „Zlínský Barcamp“ which took place on 20 and 21 April 2018. (Open conference of young entrepreneurs and other stakeholders, promoting outcomes and experience of the project, build a community of stakeholders in the area of entrepreneurial training for young people, disseminate outcomes of project namely the methodology and case study.) We had about 200 participants, 15 speakers and other participants in round tables etc. All outcomes of our project is available to any stakeholder on the web page http://www.businesseducation.cz/.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 226642 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERZITA TOMASE BATI VE ZLINE & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• FONDEN FOR ENTREPRENORSKAB – YOUNG ENTERPRISE
• JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT EUROPE
• Junior Achievement, o.p.s.