Entrepreneurial Schools in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Entrepreneurial Schools 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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Economic and financial affairs (incl. funding issues); Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship)

Project Summary

Our project “Entrepreneurial schools in Europe” helped to make students aware of the importance of basic products for the maintenance of cultural tradition and economic wealth generation in their respective towns. After investigating the processes of production, operation and marketing of Latvian sheep wool, Czech cheese, Croatian fruits jam, Bulgarian wine and Spanish olive oil; Five partner schools have applied their creative skills to offer insight into new business, different from the traditional, and we all have promoted such products in other locations of the various partner countries. In order to implement those goals, We have simulated the whole process to set up a TransEuropean Company with offices in each partner country. Its name is ETEC.

1.To start with, each team reflected on the virtues of the product by itself and the added value that it can bring to the potential consumers in the area, from the point of view of business, cultural and economic.

2. The next phase was to develop a feasibility study that provides clear strategies for try to introduce it in other countries according with the consumption habit of foreigners, which was obtained by the partner school located in the target country.

3. Students simulated the creation of a transEuropean company which markets and distributes the five products and we positioned them in the local markets. This made them enable to know the legal and administrative procedures to start a business, devising creatively the hallmarks of the new company (corporate image and industrial design, departments for each business function, business philosophy in accordance with the principles of corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability); and eventually, become a powerful engine to promote entrepreneurial culture and creating a potential niche of employability in the area.

With this goals, we put into practise an active and cooperative methodology to develop a series of final tangible products (reports, surveys, brochures, promotional videos, commercial prints, radio commercials…), which was conducted through five meetings in the different countries involved, where each school organized a trade fair in which to release the product itself to other partners, as well as to implement a specific phase of the enterprise creation.We achieved results that focus on boosting the acquisition of various skills in participants: instrumental skills (focusing on the development of the capacity for analysis and synthesis, on the initiative and entrepreneurship, oral and written English communication, handling new technologies, civic and cultural skills …), interpersonal skills (mainly teamwork, respect for diversity and multiculturalism, ethical commitment and environmental sustainability) and systemic skills (competence to research, design and project management, autonomous learning, leadership and creativity).

Our Project has offered our students an active and cooperative approach, by working from situations as closer as possible to real life, according to a practical working method based on projects and real cases on entrepreneurship.

We worked from the enormous potential offered by the Design Thinking method so as to implement innovative proposals for traditional business and we alsol implemented a methodology that promotes learning of the English language, from the action and the communicative approach onto the labor environment.

We expect the project will lasts over time, setting methodological agreements and commitments in each centre. It would open the possibility of future partnerships and the involvement of other social, administrative or productive entities with schools. So as to get this goal, we promoted a clear strategy for dissemination of the actions contemplated the plan through various mechanisms that allow effective visibility of the plan.

The impact we wanted to reach is for the widest possible audience.To achieve these objectives we proposed a distribution of tasks and express responsibilities either because each partner was responsible for promoting the final products in each transnational meeting, either because it has been agreed a schedule of previous work where tasks and responsible agents were clearly defined and scheduled.

Finally, we focused on transparency, effectiveness and rigor in the control of financial resources for which the European grant has been asked, trying to optimize them so as to allow undertake all planned actions.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97580 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES MIRADOR DEL GENIL & Country: ES

Project Partners

• General Secondary School “Nikolay Katranov”
• Zakladni skola a Materska skola Delnicka, Karvina, prispevkova organizace
• Osnovna skola “Matija Gubec” Cernik
• Davja Ozolina Apes vidusskola