Best Ever New Entrepreneurs Fit for Work Erasmus Project

Project Title

Best Ever New Entrepreneurs Fit for Work

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Cooperation between educational institutions and business

Project Summary

The project highlights the high youth unemployment rates in the partner countries and the push and pull factors in international workforce migration. As the European Commission is implementing the Europe 2020 Strategy, we have considered working on its ideas. As educational units, we can contribute to a sustainable and inclusive development of our students by enhancing their key competences, especially their entrepreneurial skills. Through our activities we would like our students to gain a better understanding of labour market and to build good links with local and international business.

Therefore, this project aims to meet the needs of students, young European citizens in secondary schools, by helping and supporting them meet right professional and personal choices. Students should be aware of their personal potential and get information from the economy and the European labour market.

The project focuses on the concept of sharing experience and good practice. Participants will benefit from the expertise of the professionals and associate partners of the beneficiaries. They are supposed to help students transfer information and apply them in a modern and dynamic school environment.
The project is based on the development of entrepreneurial skills for students, giving them opportunities to enter the labour market, institutions at local, regional and international levels.

The objectives of this project are:

1) enhancing key competences, especially entrepreneurship competence with the essential knowledge, skills and attitudes related to this competence
2) providing a sustainable and inclusive education
3) building good links with local and international business
4) establishing and running trainee companies
5) strengthening the profiles of teaching professions

The project has a duration of two years, with a TM for its assessment, as well as four teaching / learning / evaluation activities, short-term exchanges of pupils, and good practice examples provided by the Italian school (Good Practice Example 1: Relationship developed between the school and labour market in Italy) and the Croatian and Hungarian schools (Example 2: Creating Trainee Companies as Real Firms). These useful applications will be integrated into project activities, and in the second year, all partners are going to apply both examples of good practice. During each exchange, some workshops will be provided by labour market professionals to develop a practice-based approach.

The project involves the participation of 2630 people in direct and indirect ways.

Students:
Students are the most important beneficiaries directly and indirectly. Approximately 1200 students will be indirectly affected. Questionnaires will be applied to at least 100 graduates and this assessment will provide data on professional life. A total of 500 students will be involved.

Teachers: They will be involved both as instructors and as beneficiaries by observing other schools and their education systems. There will be teams of 5 teachers from each partner organization, a total of 25 teachers are supposed actively to participate in the project activities. Approximately 150 teachers / instructors / adults will be affected indirectly.

Administrative staff:
is going to address the legal issues of the project, cooperate with local project and Strategic Partnership teams transferring examples of good practice in the curriculum. Approximately 36 people in the administrative staff will be indirectly affected.

Parents:
The number of family members involved will be around 300, contributing to promoting of culture and tradition of the host country. Approximately 480 family members may be indirectly influenced.

Labour market members:
In each school, at least 15 labour market professionals will be involved.
Local community: Local community members: university lecturers, local press, municipality, national education direction, and Parent Teacher Association are supposed to help disseminate the project to a much wider community. Approximately 300 people in the local community will be indirectly involved.

Positive direct effects are expected: from at least 30% of pupils and members of target groups by:

– acquiring basic skills in the field of entrepreneurship;
– providing pupils with opportunities to connect to the labour market through local / regional / European institutions or companies;
– analyzing the national and international labour markets;
– increasing students’ flexibility in choosing a job and integrating the concept of lifelong learning, as well as identifying a possible career;
– providing unique opportunities for students to acquire entrepreneurship competence and deep understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity in the countries of our the Strategic Partnership.
– strengthening the profiles of teacher professions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145539 Eur

Project Coordinator

Debreceni Egyetem Balásházy János Gyakorló Középiskolája és Kollégiuma & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Ardesen Fen Lisesi
• 15 Gymnasio Thessalonikis
• Ekonomska skola Pozega
• IPS “P.pi Grimaldi”