Create Your Own Business! – Developing Pupils’ Entreprenur and Business Skills With the Help of Creative Arts Erasmus Project

Project Title

Create Your Own Business! – Developing Pupils’ Entreprenur and Business Skills With the Help of Creative Arts

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: Economic and financial affairs (incl. funding issues); Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

RATIONALE, SUBJECT AND LEARNING NEEDS ADDRESSED:
According to our experiences, following our students’ prosperity in the world of work after graduating, we expire an increasing number of cases when students have conflicts, puzzlement, integration problems and difficulties to find their ways as adults. Relying on short opinion polls and needs assessments preceeded the project, most of the parents, students and even the teachers consider the school system and the content of the curricua far away from those information and skills which students need on the labour market. The school content, the school environment doesn’t lead somewhere reliable to real life. Also professional analyses concerning future jobs and skills strengthen this statement: ICT competences and soft skills such as creativity, innovation, problem solving skills and entrepreneurship will be the most seekable competences in demand in the following 10 years. Developing entrepreneur skills are particularly valid for those students, which have to break out from unpriviliged social-financial backgrounds, or having those special unique personalities, which don’t fit in the genearal operation of major society.
The project provides basic knowledge about the feature of self-employment status or small businesses. During various activities it raises consiousness about participants’ valuable attitudes, skills, which can be used in creating personal futures. It teaches self-identification and selfmanagement techniques; visual marketing issues, and models conflict situations with exciting rolegames. It provides “business simulation” workshops teaching to develop business plans with all
necessary steps. It also generates group workshops to model how to build a cooperation with mates. Forms the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation, motivates to plan start-up ideas and to learn how to work with basic elements and roles of a small enterprise. .With the help of students’ mobility actions, it also presents to build future plans with crossing borders – realizing the difference on a more global thinking.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
– Identifying the feature of the recent global labour market, focusing on self-employment status and entrepreneurs, defining skills and competences generally needed for it.
– Providing self-identification and self-management techniques in order to raise self-awareness of pupils’ personal identity. Identifying connection between personalities and jobs undertaken.
– Investigating ways of establishing a business. Learning to prepare needs assessments, business plans, financial plans and operational plans. Modelling possible risky situations and business attitudes with TIE role games. Learning basic visual marketing techniques and those ICT programmes they require.
– Raising the spirit of entrepreneurship with examining the possibilities of self-employment status.
– (Find your valuable attitudes and create your own future!) Providing information about basic spirits, skills of entrepreneurs. Collecting and generating start-up ideas, modelling their fictive operation.
– Improving the level of key competences and skills, with particular regard to their relevance for the labour market, focusing on self-employment status and small enterprises matched with personal mentalities, and their contribution to a cohesive society, through strengthened cooperation between the world of education and the world of work;

STRUCTURE, RESULTS, METHODS:
There are six main topic issues based on each other in a logical order during the implementation:
1.) Business in general. Trainings, researches and workshops on the feature of small enterprises
2.) Who you are? Matching business ideas with personal skills and attitudes with the help of drama pedagogy workshops
3.) Create your own business! Business simulating workshops
4.) Visual marketing. Trainings and workshops of designing corporate identity.
5.) Situations of a business life. Workshops analysing business situations with the help of role games.
6.) Networking and cooperation (also on international level)

For transmitting the information, the partnership use alternative methods involving creative arts into the educational process, relied on the idea of experienced-based learning (the information is retained if own experience and emotion is tied to it). Thematic-based workshops, TIE role games, research, visual communication, creative writing and business simulation will be applied during the itinerary.
The project contains four learning-teaching mobilities.

All these activities increase pupils’ entrepreneur skills and creativity, improve their basic and transversal competences, and prepare them for future labour market roles with relevant information and skill development. The project awakens innovative thinking, strengthens self-consciousness and self-reflection. The itinerary is based on intercultural dialogue between participants. 3 schools participate in it.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 73223 Eur

Project Coordinator

IISS NOTARANGELO-ROSATI & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Kossuth Lajos Gimnázium és Általános Iskola
• Escola Básica dos 2º e 3º Ciclos do Caniço