Entrepreneurs exist in every country, but the nature and level of entrepreneurial activity differs remarkably. When young adults in two different countries work on the same theme, and exchange their ideas and experience, one wishes to create an understanding of the possibilities within the Europeen society and to become more aware of what shapes the level of entrepreneurial activity in each country.Important topics will be to nclude such as international financing, innovation and connecting to emerging and transitional economies. The method we use, aims to understand the students’ perspectives towards the concept of entrepreneurship, the various factors that form the students’ perspectives and the what role our two schools can ,together with the student's develop and cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit. The most relevant topics addressed by our project are entrepreneurship, digital skills, cross cultural communication and knowledge. Therefore, the following results are expected during and on the completion of the project:1.Inspiring students to learn, encouraging them to collect information and materials concerning two regions or tho countries2. Enriching knowledge about Lubelskie County and Telemark Region3. Developing entrepreneurship, the ability to cooperate and the ability for self-presentation and searching for information from different sources4. During the project students will be able to benefit from the expertise of the specialists including: travel agents and coaches of specialized computer program usage5.Improving the use of computer technologies and the knowledge and managment of social media6.Development and improvement of language skills7. Improving the quality of the work of students and teachers, establishing contacts between students and teachers from partner schools8.Making students aware of the importance of education, how important their own individual skills are.
Our transnational cooperation was originally initiated by representatives of the county Telemark (Norway), Lubelskie (Poland) and partners at Green Business Norway due to their already established cooperation agreement. Both partner schools “Porsgrunn Upper Secondary School” and “Vetter Economic School” took an active part in establishing a cooperation project with the title “Let’s Strengthen Bonds Through Entrepreneurship and Tourism” based on innovation, intercultural education, tourism, cross-cultural communication, the development of English skills, entrepreneurship and the development of digital skills. As far as the schools’ profiles is concerned, Porsgrunn Upper Secondary School is among the two biggest schools in the county Telemark offering many different education programs. The pupils recruited to this project attended the following education programs: o International baccalaureate o Specialization in General Studies o Sports and Physical Education o Art, Design and Architecture Porsgrunn Upper Secondary School collaborates with schools in Poland, France, Island, China and USA, Sweden, which reflects our commitment to internationalisation. The profile of A&J Vetter Economic Schools of Lublin is as follows: They have two types of schools, namely the XVI Secondary School and the Technical Economic Secondary School, from which pupils were recruited to our cooperation project. Both partner schools came with different expertise that enabled an interlocking approach to this project, where Porsgrunn Upper Secondary School brought along experience within entrepreneurship and innovation, whereas Vetter School brought along experience within computer science, hotel industry and tourist industry. Through various activities, such as during different workshops carried out by both schools and most importantly by visiting each other’s regions and promoting the tourist destinations of both regions Telemark and Lubelskie, our pupils have not only gained skills in the above described objectives, but they have also developed their personalities with respect to open-mindedness, tolerance, friendship across borders, active participation and an awareness of a lifelong learning process, which we think will contribute to a successful work and academic career. Thanks to the electronic platform e-Twinning, we could upload many documents that certify the various results obtained by this cooperation work and we would like to encourage everyone to explore our project’s activities and outcomes. In addition, even though this project will be formally closed, it will live on in its foot prints, in other words, in the already established contacts between pupils, both schools and other organisations involved in this project, which again have created a good groundwork and will ease further collaboration between both schools in the future. We look back at two utmost interesting, inspiring and informative years of cooperation and are very grateful for having got the opportunity to carry out this project with such multiple results.