COOPERATIVE LEARNING AND DIGITAL SKILLS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION Erasmus Project

Project Title

COOPERATIVE LEARNING AND DIGITAL SKILLS IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Starting the project, we wanted to IMPROVE our students’ entrepreneurial, digital, language and social competencies by sharing, usage and further development of innovative and student-centred cooperative Entrepreneurship learning methods, workshops and training in order MOTIVATE and ACTIVATE young, partly socially disadvantaged and potentially unemployed youngsters to start entrepreneurship learning and/or create their own further job possibilities.
At the end of the project we believe, that this project and its further sustainable results are an important element in the quest to reach a higher employment rate in the regions.

Our aim was also to foster MODERNIZATION and INTERNATIONALIZATION of all partner schools by improving cooperation internally as well with external stakeholders: enterprises, public authorities and others.
All partners were motivated to develop ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING of our students, to give early career counselling, to help them in discovering of the local and regional labour market -to prepare them for real-life challenges they will have to face after finishing school in a positive way.
All students of our schools have been involved in local project activities, and there are 100 international mobilities organized to 1 Joint staff training event and 4 Blended mobilities.

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH:
Project’ objectives have been achieved in 7 milestones from INFORMATION COLLECTION and ANALYZING PHASE till EVALUATION and DISSEMINATION PHASE in a logical balance between local activities and Blended mobilities as the international finalizing activity of each stage of the project, with concrete topic and program.

ALL PARTNERS KEPT THE SAME STRUCTURE AND TIMETABLE OF THE LOCAL ACTIVITIES :
MONTHS 1-24:- Project management/evaluation/dissemination activities.
MONTHS 3-5: Teachers prepared materials for the Entrepreneurship local pilot workshops.
MONTHS 6-8: Local Entrepreneurship pilot workshops have been organized in an appropriate duration (12, 24 or 36 hours) for each partner school.
MONTHS 8-14- Local testing and development of cooperative entrepreneurship teaching methods, preparation of the best practice samples for joint project virtual office in Dropbox and Project Journal Nb1.
MONTHS 14-19-Local career guidance and orientation activities, preparation of the best practice samples/skills and abilities testing templates for joint project virtual office in Dropbox and Project Newsletter Nb2.
MONTHS 19-22-Local activities in cooperation with local enterprises and other stakeholders, collection and summarizing of the information and experience for further sharing with partners in Dropbox and project newsletter Nb2.

TANGIBLE RESULTS uploaded to the Erasmus + results platform and partner schools’ home pages:

– a database of useful links for vocational orientation/orientation and entrepreneurship education;

– teaching materials for teachers regarding the use of methods for acquiring cooperative business and samples of best practices;

– school-based business plans related to relevant local labour market needs and development trends;

– project journals Nb1 and Nb2;

– presentations following pupils’ work and interviews in international work-based training as motivation and inspiration for the success stories themselves;

– descriptions of the training activities of the international business training session and plans, ready for further use by colleagues of other schools/countries;

– an inventory of cooperative training methods.

Other tangible results: local professional counselling materials for different school age groups and activity documentation materials; project links on partner schools’ websites with regularly updated information on project activities and results.

We DISSEMINATED our project results and experience in 3 units, keeping the project structural approach and choosing for each of them the most appropriate target audience:

1) Entrepreneurship workshops as an innovative method that can be used not only in schools but also in adult education;
2) Best-practice samples of cooperative learning methods in Entrepreneurship education;’
3) Career guidance materials for usage in different school types/for different age students.

RESOURCES: our school’s websites, teachers meetings/educational events – locally/on the regional/national level etc.
We are going to build an evaluation component into any dissemination activity to see if we’ve achieved our purpose.

Participating in this project the schools gained new knowledge in making the learning environment more modern and attractive, creating closer connections with enterprises and educational establishment that has large and long-term positive effect. There will be improved quality of educational activities, raised reputation and attractiveness of these institutions by

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109985 Eur

Project Coordinator

Malpils novada vidusskola & Country: LV

Project Partners

• I.I.S. VIA EMERY 97 ( ex ITC Calamandrei, ex IPS Stendhal)
• Gausdal videregående skole, Pierre de Coubertin
• Graditeljska, prirodoslovna i rudarska skola
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Amareleja