Network for Inter-Institutional Cooperation in Entrepreneurial Education Erasmus Project

Project Title

Network for Inter-Institutional Cooperation in Entrepreneurial 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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

NICE – Network for Inter-Institutional Cooperation in Entrepreneurial Education is a project created to support the school education through activities supporting entrepreneurial competences among secondary school students.
ECo is understood as an ability to use opportunities and ideas and transform them into values for others. The core of ECo is creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, initiative, persistence, ability to cooperate towards to plan and manage projects with cultural, social or commercial value. Business skills are based on creativity containing imagination, strategic thinking, problem solving, critical and constructive reflection in the frame of developing creative processes and innovations. It is required to have skills both to work individually, and in teams, to mobilize resources (human/stuff) and persist in performing the activity. It also includes ability of decision-making dealing with finance – decisions about costs and values (EC, 2018 – recommendations on key competences).

The key area is to support the skills mentioned above and this is where the partners of the project (universities from 4 different countries) aim their activities. Although the universities work with university students, thanks to the cooperation with secondary schools and this project, they can work with and influence also SS students. Activities can be represented mainly as:
• Development and realization of lectures in economic sciences (finance, management, accounting, marketing, business economics)
• Development and realization of competitions for secondary school students in economic topics
• Cooperation among educational activities
• Organization of university activities aimed at secondary school students (e.g. open days)

The primary target groups of the project are secondary schools students. The secondary target are secondary school teachers and also academics/teachers at universities. 4 partner universities will start cooperation with at least 20 secondary schools and develop activities for at minimum 1000 secondary students. There will be 4 major dissemination activities for 120 participants.

The objectives of the project mainly are:
• Promote entrepreneurship,
• Provide secondary students with knowledge of soft and hard skills, that will help them to develop their entrepreneurial competences,
• Develop a handbook and manual on available online tools and their use,
• Facilitate the creation of a cooperating network from secondary schools and universities in the participating countries,
• Facilitate networking and sharing of knowledge, experiences and best practices,
• Develop a platform to support entrepreneurial education through specific scenarios that will be developed.
• Promote digital competencies and their use among secondary school students.

The objectives of the project will be achieved through the development of the following intellectual outputs:
1. NICE IO1: NICE Library of educational lectures and practical tasks
2. NICE IO2: Creation of competition in the area of entreprenurial development
3. NICE IO3: Portfolio of on-line tools usable for organization of international competition

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 235847 Eur

Project Coordinator

VYSOKÁ ŠKOLA BÁŇSKÁ – TECHNICKÁ UNIVERZITA OSTRAVA & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• OBUDAI EGYETEM
• TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V KOSICIACH
• AKADEMIA TECHNICZNO-HUMANISTYCZNA W BIELSKU-BIALEJ