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...
HEInnovate (https://heinnovate.eu/) is a self-assessment tool for Higher Education Institutions, which provides ideas and inspiration for the effective management of institutional and cultural change.It is designed to help interested organisations assess themselves against statements which are organised under the following seven areas:Leadership and governanceOrganisational Capacity,...
The Dutch vocational education system is always on the move. In august 2016 a new qualification structure will be introduced in the intermediate vocational schools with fulltime students and apprentices in the age group 16 to 20 years. The main goals of this new system are reinforcement of the cooperation between schools and companies, reducing the number of curricula and making them...
The EntreComp framework proposes a shared definition of entrepreneurship as a competence. It aims to promote and support consensus among all stakeholders in the field of entrepreneurship education and to establish a bridge between the worlds of education and work.Developed through a mixed-methods approach, the EntreComp framework consists of 3 interrelated and interconnected competen...
The birth of new companies in a school environment. Building a local eco-system that brings students throughout their school career to a real start-up via a progression path of guidance and coaching is essential for developing a healthy entrepreneurship ecosystem. The main outcome of such initiatives is to facilitate the creation of new start-ups – in the example of Vlajo & PXL-U...
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 objective of ‘Enterprising Huddersfield’ is to build on Huddersfield’s local entrepreneurial assets to help local people in being more enterprising, innovative and able to generate economic growth.Key actions:Building awareness and knowledge amongst pupils, teachers and business of enterprise and entrepreneurialism as a skill to build the individual’s resilience;integrate enterpr...
Leveraging the knowledge and expertise inside industry (and industry associations) through well-structured entrepreneurial learning programmes to generate more interest in STEM subjects. One of the success factors of entrepreneurship education is the fact that it emphasizes the practical. Math/Science/Technology can be anathema to many students if they do not understand how useful an...
BEES is about developing a co-ordinated enterprise education programme across all schools, colleges and universities in Swansea, so that all young people can access high quality provision. By combining a wide range of activities, including teacher training, student workshops and enterprise promotion and start-up events, the initiative reaches out from primary school all the way throu...
Developing a co-ordinated entrepreneurial education programme across elementary, high schools, and universities in Belgrade region. The goal is that all young people can access high quality of entrepreneurial learning at all educational levels in cooperation with local companies.This is done through:
