Entrepreneurship in Europe Key Actions Erasmus Project

Project Title

Entrepreneurship in Europe Key Actions

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

According to the EU Commission, ” Entrepreneurship is an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation, risk taking, ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives.” The Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan foresee teaching actions and education to provide our students with the tools to become future entrepreneurs. Moreover, it shows how up to 20% of students who have participated, during their secondary school, in programmes targeting this type of learning – which involves project work, real-life experience and simulated roles – are ready to start their own company or business. To support productivity and growth in Europe, it is essential to invest in education and training.
While the definition may sound simple, its execution is more difficult.
The main objective of our project is to develop entrepreneurship as a way of thinking and acting in order to improve pupils’ educational-socio-economic development, to create transparency and common criteria for evaluation of skills, to develop social inclusion, non-discrimination and citizenship values.
First, the project aims at increasing basic skills of the students in the participating schools in terms of entrepreneurship and innovation. The participating students have learnt to see themselves as future entrepreneurs in an intercultural society with possibilities without borders, and they can now use the acquired knowledge in their future professional life. The students from the participating schools have been exposed to an environment where such life skills as creativity, sense of initiative, innovation, risk-taking, communication across cultures, collaboration and critical thinking are employed. The project has also provided a powerful effect on the pupils’ language skills and their ability to act and behave in a multicultural setting.
Second, pupils, apprentices and teachers have traced their European identity and have become aware of the great chances our global world offers by meeting people from different European countries. By working and living together they have explored and understood similarities and differences, improving their personal ideas about a “European” life and making big steps on their way to become active European citizens.
Each school has contributed one field of the business plan:
– Italy: From planning (projects, computer aided design tools) to production. What are the methods to create a product?
– Denmark: what are the means to advertise a product? From packaging to communication impact
– Poland: Business aims, objectives and ethics. How can technology be used to promote a product or service?
– Germany: focusing on financial and legal aspects: How do you set up a business and create a marketing concept for it?
The many activities planned by the project have been carried out keeping in mind that entrepreneurial teaching needs a horizontal approach and becomes a cross curricular subject which requires teacher-teams and room for experimentation. Moreover, the participating schools have established a cooperation network with community organisations, companies and businesses to support their activities.
As a consequence, besides:
– the opening of project websites (eTwinning, stand-alone, Facebook page, Moodle platform) for students and teachers’ sharing ideas, presentations of schools and country,
– uploading of our activities that form a data-bank for EU colleagues who want to engage and experiment with our outputs;
– common evaluation questionnaires and quality analysis;
– dissemination via the web, newspaper and official meetings;
our planned activities have foreseen:
– setting up and implementation of a 2-year programme of activities to develop each country’s domain, based on: research, direct experience in companies, analysis of finance/ innovative methods/ production technology as well as channels used for product promotion and advertisement
– visits and workshops in local companies, conferences with experts, managers and companies’ technicians
– teachers’ exchange of teaching methods and their experience of the integration of the present project as a horizontal approach
– modelling and production
– exchanging produced outputs and results through ICT tools and during mobility meetings to share ideas, knowledge, experience, and best practices among the students, teachers and stakeholders, enhancing ICT skills in the students

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 96260 Eur

Project Coordinator

ITIS PININFARINA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Zespol Szkol nr 2 w Lubartowie
• Hovedst Privatskoler Filipskolen
• Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium