Developing inclusive and innovative entrepreneurship education in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Developing inclusive and innovative entrepreneurship education in Europe

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

To develop and test new models of entrepreneurship education,8 different local and regional school authorities, Universities and learning provider organizations in the field of social entrepreneurship from 7 countries “Finland, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Turkey and United Kingdom” worked together to lead the project ,co-created and tested the following innovative methods and freely accessible OER:

IO1: EUROPEAN EQF-BASED CURRICULUM ON INCLUSIVE AND INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION BASED ON THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
The theoretical framework of entrepreneurship education brings together the common experience and understanding of project partners, on what entrepreneurship education means, and what entrepreneurship education aims to achieve. The theoretical framework therefore served as the basis for the curriculum development.

IO2: TRAINING MODULES ON INCLUSIVE AND INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
The aim of the training modules, created together with the project partners, is to develop different aspects of entrepreneurship education.

IO3: MOBILE INSTRUCTIONAL LEARNING APP

The mobile application has been developed to further support learning. It can be used to create questionnaires that can be used to either test learning or to utilise questioning alongside other teaching. The application can be used by both teachers and students.

IO4: MULTILINGUAL eLEARNING PLATFORM

The eLearning platform is a 24/7 open learning environment translated into six languages. The content areas built into the Learning Units are intended for the development of teachers’ own skills. Teachers at different school levels can utilise the content in their own teaching, as well as adapting and extending the content to suit students of different ages, interests or learning styles

IO5: SET OF TAILOR-MADE MOBILE APPS

The educational institutions and teachers involved in the project pilots across the six partner countries experimented with the various digital tools and the Start In Mobile application in their support of entrepreneurship education.

IO6: GUIDE FOR DEVELOPING AN INCLUSIVE AND INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION ECOSYSTEM IN EUROPE
The purpose of this guide is to bring together the material produced in the Start In project and the experiences gained from creating it, to promote and develop entrepreneurship education in Europe.

Please read more https://startin.erasmus.site/products/

In six Start In participant´s countries thirty teachers participated across two pilot phases by testing and implementing the eLearning Platform materials and Mobile Application in their daily teaching of entrepreneurship education with their students. They selected the suitable tools and practices to fit their daily teaching and group of students. Afterwards they gave feedback of the materials and tools used, based on their experiences. Feedback was collected via online questionnaires during the Start In project during the years 2019– 2020. .

PILOT 1. ELEARNING PLATFORM MATERIALS AND MOBILE APP
At the first Pilot, done in the year 2019, the feedback was been collected from twenty-eight persons across six European countries. In Pilot 1. teachers became familiar with the Start In eLearning platform´s entrepreneurship pedagogy and learning materials, and they applied the Start In Mobile Application with their students. Feedback answers were collected from primary and secondary teachers as well as some educational policy makers.
PILOT 2. ENTRE. EDU. MATERIALS INTO PRACTICE
At the second Pilot, conducted during 2019–2020, 30 teachers across 6 European countries have implemented entrepreneurship education practices with the students from the primary to secondary school levels. Teachers and educators implemented the Start In eLearning platform´s entrepreneurship pedagogy and used the eLearning materials in their teaching.
All Start In units and lessons at the platform were tested and implemented in daily teaching practices. Test users gave feedback after implementation. Twenty-two feedback answers were collected from primary to higher level teachers and some policy makers. According to the feedback the eLearning platform mainly worked very well, and the feedback was very good. Most useful materials on the platform were videos, slides, tools and practical examples.

According to the feedback of test users Start In eLearning materials and practices gave good examples of what entrepreneurship education is and how it can be implemented in different school levels in various, innovative ways.In this project,We encouraged teachers to step out of the school environment and utilise more stakeholders and companies to their teaching.

With 6 meetings,6 Intellectual Outputs,6 Multiplier Events (Although it should have been 8, it could not be held in 2 countries),many exploitation and dissemination activities we have strength in cooperation, and we are now ready to meet the challenge of European entrepreneurship by training skilled teachers and enterprising young people.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 303033 Eur

Project Coordinator

MANISA IL MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ZABALA INNOVATION CONSULTING, S.A.
• COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
• INSTITUTO PARA EL FOMENTO DEL DESARROLLO Y LA FORMACION SL
• Directorate of Secondary Education, Chania
• CORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• JYVASKYLAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU
• DANMAR COMPUTERS SP ZOO