The Start-Up Programme gives post-secondary students (aged 18 to 30) the opportunity to experience running their own company, giving them an insight into how their talents could be used to set up in business for themselves. With the support and guidance of business mentors, the program provides entrepreneurship education for college and university students of diverse backgrounds and...
App-based action methodology for assessing entrepreneurial educationhttp://loopme.io Research: http://vcplist.com/resources Tool: http://meanalytics.se/wp/The method is based on the “proxy” theory of how people develop entrepreneurial competencies, stipulating that emotional events can be considered intermediaries (i.e. proxies) between teachers’ instructional design and students’ de...
Our Community uses posters and games to offer practical information about businesses and the many jobs they offer in a community. Students identify and explore the need for both public and private jobs, production methods through a simulation game, and they learn about taxes, decision-making and how money flows in an economy. In 2014-2015 school year over 125,000 s...
All young people need basic economic literacy in order to make a positive contribution to society later on. Rhineland-Pfalz (RLP) has chosen to integrate economic education in a transversal fashion across all types of schools, in all subjects and at all levels of the curriculum. In addition to the economic literacy, they have built entrepreneurship activities into the pathway and wor...
Social enterprises offer a model for 21st century business that balances financial, social, cultural and environmental needs. Governments and public bodies are giving more and more attention to social entrepreneurship. It is a moment in history when we need to turn our attention to social entrepreneurs and put a lot of effort into supporting the creation and development of more socia...
Young people around the world are struggling to enter the labour market. In some OECD countries, one in four 16-29 year-olds is neither employed nor in education or training. The OECD Skills Outlook 2015 shows how improving the employability of youth requires a comprehensive approach. While education, social, and labour market policies have key roles to play, co-ordination between pu...
The program provides teachers and students with a variety of technical and economical projects to spark interest for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and entrepreneurial subjects and to prepare young people for their later work life. Siemens has 94 partner schools, plans on average 7 different activities for 1 school in 1 year, reaches around 17.000 students an...
On July 16th 2015, the National Government approved a new law regulating the Italian Education system and the way schools work. One very important point of the law is connected to entrepreneurship education in secondary and vocational schools.Through this law, the school-work exchange has become a mandatory activity: students from secondary schools and from VET have to spend respecti...
Over the last 15-20 years, several research projects and reports have documented the positive outcomes and impacts from the JA Company Programme.The first attempt in 1997 looked into what happened to 48 000 alumni in Sweden, and they found that the start-up rate among these were significant higher than among others. A few years later, in 2002, a similar survey was done in Norway, sho...
The teacher training program “the entrepreneurship as transversal approach for pre university education curricula” was accredited at the national level.Four modules are part of the teacher training program:Learning about entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurial SchoolThe importance of entrepreneurial spirit in everyday life and how it relates to the labour market and economyThe objective a...
