Your Entrepreneurial Skills – Y.E.S for Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Your Entrepreneurial Skills – Y.E.S for Future

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

In this project we focused on developing the students’ entrepreneurial skills and introduced them to the world of labour. The teachers were also able to revise and strengthen their teaching profession by comparing and sharing experiences and good practices related to aspects such as teaching CLIL, team teaching or teaching communicative skills. As a result of our professional cooperation we jointly created a handbook of good teaching practices and a collection of teaching materials for Business English Classes. We held workshops and observed each other’s lessons and methods.

The project was created as the continuation of a previous partnership formed by the Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish schools, which was based on developing skills needed for life and for the integration in the labour market. In addition, the Slovenian school contributed with their good practice of interconnections between formal and non-formal education and expertise in cross-curricular teaching. During the implementation of the project we learnt a lot from each other by introducing good practices into our everyday school life and teaching practises.

The aim of our project was to encourage and develop our students’ sense of initiative and entrepreneurship and to help them find ways to seek for solutions in a creative and independent way. They researched the local and European labour markets, used digital resources to increase their ICT skills and enhanced their foreign language competences, especially their knowledge of English. Students participated in Business Language lessons, took part in workshops given by professionals, practised everyday situations such as job interviews and studied what a successful start-up is like. They became familiar with the European Language Portfolio. Europass Mobility documents were given to all students and teachers taking part in the learning, teaching and training activities. The participants took part in several field trips and workshops. They interviewed many entrepreneurs. In all meetings they took part in entrepreneurship workshops, where they gained first-hand experience on brainstorming ideas, planning and setting up companies and pitching business ideas. The final result of students’ cooperation is a collection of their presentations and an e-portfolio of their companies accompanied by their reflections and feedback.

During the student exchanges everyone got acquainted with their partners’ culture and traditions, and students showed and taught each other traditional dances, songs and their own language. They had an opportunity to experience their partners’ school life by attending lessons and various extra-curricular activities. During the trips they visited many sites of cultural heritage. By staying with host families, students got an insight into their partners’ everyday life and developed their social and communication skills. Many lasting friendships were born.

We succeeded in implementing all the pre-planned project activities and we also introduced extra writing and other project-related activities as our students were enthusiastic and open to challenges. During the three years of the project we arranged several international events at our school so that we were able to tell all students, colleagues, partners from other projects and parents about the project activities. The ongoing activities and results of the project were always presented in the regular staff meetings at our school.

Through the implementation of our project activities we have created contacts with several local and national companies and institutions. It is very likely that this cooperation will be maintained upon the completion of the project, too. All the activities carried out during the project were based on school curricula and the materials and activities carried out will remain in our teaching practise The cooperation has had a great impact on all participants and institutions and contributed to the international aspects of our school as well as broadened our horizons. It has made us more open-minded and equipped us with motivation and new ideas for everyday teaching and learning activities. Due to our successful cooperation and professional relations we are planning new joint projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 130040 Eur

Project Coordinator

Loimaan lukio & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Solski center Slovenske Konjice-Zrece
• Százhalombattai Arany János Általános Iskola és Gimnázium
• IES SANTIAGO APÓSTOL