Entrepreneurship Training Program in Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Entrepreneurship Training Program in 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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Enterprise, industry and SMEs (incl. entrepreneurship); New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The ENTRETOY project focuses on learning and teaching entrepreneurship in a new way. It is also the school of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial attitude towards all.
The partners’ needs were as follows:1. Graduates lack confidence, initiative and key entrepreneurial skills.3 VET or higher education economics teachers have insufficient or absent practical experience and are unable to connect the learners’ professional field with entrepreneurial studies.4 Lack of practical courses or continuing education mentors that could really support start-up entrepreneurs.
The objectives:* Improving the quality of entrepreneurship education.* Training of the consortium’s educators to have a new and more effective methodology for entrepreneurship education.* Testing different methodologies available.* Creating a curriculum for teachers and other entrepreneurship educators or advisors.* Creating educational materials for teachers and other teachers or advisors.* Creating a curriculum / annual program for an adult student pre-incubation course and higher education.
The project partners are Belgium IEPS Jemappes (VET), Estonia: Tartu Art School (VET), Finland: SASKY (VET), Greenland: Niurnermik Ilinniarfik (VET), Spain: CEEI-Burgos Incubator, Poland: Regional Labour Office Bialystok
Activities: Teacher training, experimentation with new methodologies (FInland’s TOY model and the “Entrepreneurial School” in Belgium), evaluation of results, combination of best practices. The creation of intellectual results: 2 curricula and teaching materials
The results:
– VET students and professionals have better key competences in entrepreneurship, initiative and trust.
– Graduates are more competitive in the labour market.
– New methods of teaching entrepreneurship are being used.
– Teachers and mentors have innovative tools to teach entrepreneurship
– The consortium’s cooperation, evaluation and innovation processes create a basis for further development
– An international network of teachers, mentors and students to support entrepreneurship learning processes.
In the long term, we can expect to
– more entrepreneurs, more jobs.
– the graduate unemployment rate will be lower.
– more collaboration between vocational schools, incubation centres and employment centres.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 215695,66 Eur

Project Coordinator

iepscf jemappes & Country: BE

Project Partners

• Tartu Art School
• Wojewodztwo Podlaskie – Wojewodzki Urzad Pracy w Bialymstoku
• SASKY koulutuskuntayhtymä
• ASOCIACION PARA LA GESTION DEL CENTRO EUROPEO DE EMPRESAS E INNOVACION DE BURGOS
• Niuernermik Ilinniarfik