Think global, entrepreneur local Erasmus Project

Project Title

Think global, entrepreneur local

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Social entrepreneurship in schools refers to teach students through learning-by-doing. The teachers guide students through the process of building their own social enterprise ideas that address a local community or school issue. Social enterprise, which is very popular today requires entrepreneurial skills and a community mindset, so it can be competitive at the market. The goal of the project is building the qualities, empowering students who will see themselves as young innovators and change-makers who can make a difference in creative ways and launch their own initiatives. In the realization of this goal the teachers will give their contribution through mutual work with the students, giving directions for work, by using the skills, competences and knowledge gained in the project. The teachers’ guide, the curricula and handbook for social entrepreneurship, which are outputs of the project will be used as part of regular school activities on continues base, in every school year in the future.
The activities in the project should encourage students to develop realistic social enterprise ideas that could launch by themselves and connect students with opportunities to take their ideas further. By engaging the students with social entrepreneurship, the school will not only give them critical enterprising skills for future employment, but also position them as thought leaders in this growing space. The main idea in the project is through different training’s and workshops students to become capable to select an issue to address analyze its root causes, design a social enterprise solution and pitch this to their peers and school staff.
The activities in the project should provide lots of training, collaboration and exchange for teachers from a great variety of countries. The teachers should gain skills and knowledge for finding out methods and tools that should implement in classroom to focus on the creativity of the students, so they will become more entrepreneurial and creative themselves.
The project should involve eight meetings between participants (students and staff or only staff) in different partner ‘s countries. On each meeting there will be specific goals, activities, results and outputs. Dissemination and evaluation will be made after each meeting. Between meetings, partners will have individual activities and mutual activities that will be done on line.
Objectives of the project are:
– involving social entrepreneurship in educational process
– training of staff for realization of teaching for social entrepreneurship
– creating Teachers’ guide, Curricula and Handbook by which VET educational process will produce social responsible and creative persons with entrepreneurial spirit for solving social problems.
The Project will have a major impact on those directly and indirectly related to it.
The project will increase the competences of direct participants in supporting and initiating projects and programs using the various aspects of social entrepreneurship education. Students are expected to discover a new forms of being creative and finding entrepreneurial solutions for solving social problems and improve their international communication skills. The teachers involved in the project are expected to enrich their pedagogical knowledge, skills and knowledge for teaching social entrepreneurship on their classes, will become more dynamic and open-minded.
Schools and organisations involved in the project will be enriched by innovative ways of working with students – including active learning/teaching methods for social entrepreneurship. Exchange of experience in the field of social entrepreneurship education at large, developing a common methodology and tools to apply new methods who will have a positive impact on the partner organizations. Strengthened cooperation will further encourage communities to implement other national and international projects in this area.
Local school and education communities will benefit from professionally implemented social entrepreneurship activities and initiate sustainable change in the area of social entrepreneurship education. Organizations such as municipalities, social enterprises, local community, students, parents, business sector will have benefit from implementation of social entrepreneurship in education.
The project have three final outputs: Teachers guide for teaching social entrepreneurship, Curricula for social entrepreneurship in high school and Handbook “Think global, entrepreneur local”. The outputs will be presented in two events – forum event in Italy and conference in The Republic of North Macedonia. They will be translated to each partner’s language. This outputs will be used in everyday educational process after finishing the project, because it is planned to be verified by official educational institutions in each partner’s country.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 110604 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sredno opstinsko uciliste Pero Nakov & Country: MK

Project Partners

• GODESK S.R.L.
• SYNTHESIS CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LIMITED
• Prva susacka hrvatska gimnazija u Rijeci
• TUZLA ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU