Let’s Make Our Own Business Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s Make Our Own Business

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Social entrepreneurship / social innovation

Project Summary

Let’s Make our Own Business is a project, carried out in the concept of erasmus+ programme with the cooperation of schools from Croatia, Turkey, Italy, Netherlands and Greece, aiming to improve Students’ Entreprneurial skills besides language and ICT competences. According to the EU reports, during economical crisis, a vast majority of people in Europe did not know what to to to create their own solutions and just waited for the support of the governments. Due to struggle with a growing number of young graduates unable to succeed in the labour market in all five participating countries, the project tries to develop skills and competences which are essential for successful professional and personal life.The long-term objectives are based on outcomes of distributed and analysed questionnaires among all participants.They all have realised that the key factors of prosperity and well-being of all members of society are those stated in the project aims and objectives.They create the stepping stones of labour market flexibility and are essential part of future prosperity of all members of EU. In order to achieve the goals, the first step is to modernize education systems,to focus our efforts on motivation of students. In this project, 100 students and 40 teachers will be involved directly in LTTA activities which will be hosted by participating schools.Around 400 students and 75 teachers will be involved in the project indirectly through skype/online learning activities – which will be organised between learning activities and their role is to involve a greater number of target persons / students and teachers/. They will work in internationally mixed teams to improve their language and collaboration skills. Thanks to varied courses they will be able to approach tasks from different angles. They will meet new softwares, web2 tools and They will learn about e-twinning a lot. During each LTT activity, in International groups, participants will create their own Business (company) step by step on e-twinning platform. Each step will consist of tutorials, presentations, interactive activities, worksheets, self-assessment tests and many others that will be available to students, teachers and public not only in participating countries but worldwide. During the LTTAs, 5 different International companies will be created by different students cooperating in International groups. This means that all school community will have to follow the Project steps carefully. Another extra point of LMOOB is that it covers not only the participants existing in LTTAs but also the students in partner schools and other partners in e-twinning platform. Lots of Companies will be created in schools by using e-twinning platform. And, an enthusiastic member of the schools will have a chance to be involved in activities. Through implementing innovative approach – using learning and teaching via e-twinning, concepts of blended learning and the flipped classroom, introducing methods to improve teaching and learning foreign languages ( Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) ), we will be able to deliver necessary skills and competencies not only to pupils but to teachers as well through attending both types of learning activities. In this project we want to concentrate on implementing entrepreneurship education, so young people studying different courses can start their own companies that might operate on global market. We want them to overcome fear and doubts, because thanks to active participation in the project and its follow-up activities they might be self-confident, ambitious and active young entrepreneurs. Our plan is to make them break stereotypes and stand up for themselves. We want to teach them how they can create businesses where they will contribute not only to the country welfare but also European community taking into account local/regional/world society needs in future. They will learn how to follow the rules of fair trade promoting local and regional suppliers and meet the environmental needs in terms of being nature friendly and ecological. Crucial outcomes of this project are development of key skills and competencies, such as critical thinking, communication, financial literacy and very important collaboration skills ( ability to cooperate in multiracial, multicultural and multilingual envronment) . They need to be goal-oriented and creative to be able to solve problems and come up with innovations. Thanks to ‘Let’s Make our Own Business’ all participating countries will be able to improve the education and students learning outcomes. Due to its feasibility and accessibility this ambitious project has a potential to serve as an open source learning platform and ensure its longterm sustainability. All participating countries plan to share project outcomes in other projects and cooperations on different platforms, such as eTwinning, SEG, erasmus+ Project Results Platform

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 144640 Eur

Project Coordinator

Tehnicka skola i prirodoslovna gimnazija Rudera Boskovica & Country: HR

Project Partners

• Osg Willemblaeu
• I.I.S. GRANDIS
• Vali Erol Çakir Anadolu Lisesi
• 1st EK KAVALAS