The International Labor Office estimates that around 88.2 million young women and men are unemployed throughout the world, accounting for 47 per cent of all the 185.9 million unemployed persons globally, and many more young people are working long hours for low pay, struggling to eke out a living in the informal economy. The challenge facing the world today is to make education meaningful and more inclusive to this set of young people around the globe (UNICEF). Education is widely recognized as one of the most critical means of defeating the challenges of development. However, the focus is on rote learning and the education system does not actively encourage students to think on their own and take on responsibilities. It neglects the importance of developing a creative mindset among children, which means that the significance of education as a tool for personal development is severely hampered by such a form of education. Although report of European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry states that entrepreneurship is included in the national curricula for vocational education in a majority of European countries, at least to some extent, the report also points out programmes and activities included in those figures differ greatly in intensity and effectiveness and the general perception that there is still a gap to be filled. . This was the basis and the genesis for our project.This project has been designed as an action–research project with an ultimate aim of preparing instructional material for educators to foster entrepreneurship among vocational education studentsThe aim of the project is to devise a curriculum, which would address some of the existing deficiencies of the education system, bridging a gap between the needs of the economy of countries and the needs of VET students. Within the scope of the project, as the applicant institution Gölhisar District National Education Directorate established a partnership with ELN from United Kingdom and MECP from Malta. In order to contribute to fill the gap between countries and promote entrepreneurship among members of professions, partners of the project will make field researches, detect deficiencies, define good practices and exchange good experiences and practices at an international platform. The project will last 2 years and within this period there will be 4 international meetings. The first and the last meetings will be hosted by the coordinator and the other two will be hosted by the partners. These international meetings will be productive in terms of exchanging endeavors producing workshops. In between meetings, outputs of workshops will be tested and reviewed to idealize the entrepreneurship education in Vet techniques.At this period, partners will cooperate with VET students interactively. At the end of the project, the partnership will produce an entrepreneurship education in VET module and a guide for teachers. During the project, partners will be in touch in touch and a website will be designed in order to create an online platform in which project studies and outputs are shared. The partnership will apply the module with a pilot scheme and encourage local and national authorities to promote entrepreneurship education in VET. As a result of the project it is expected to create an awareness among VET teachers and students about entrepreneurship and its vitality for individual and social welfare. In addition, the project will offer a well structured entrepreneurship education in VET module with its guide. Further, the project will offer a groundwork for future researches and initiatives.
Determining the tendency of new trends and strategies related to entrepreneurship within the scope of EU Progress Report and EU 2020 Entrepreneurship Action Plan prepared by EU Commission, European Small Business Act and EU Commission, entrepreneurship has an important place in development strategies In this study, it is necessary to create a strategy and action plan that focuses on entrepreneurship by considering the issue of entrepreneurship in a Specialization Commission that is separate from SMEs and taking into consideration the needs and developments in our country.In order to encourage entrepreneurship among the vocational education students in the field of entrepreneurship in the field of entrepreneurship in our country, while European countries have included entrepreneurship in national curriculums of vocational education and training programs, it is necessary to prepare teaching material to educators, to provide experience and knowledge sharing among countries, and finally to promote the culture of entrepreneurship in our country The main basis of our project is to contribute to the creation of an entrepreneurial friendly ecosystem that will develop entrepreneurship. As part of the project, a partnership was established with the National Education Directorate of Gölhisar District, ELN from England and CREOLABS TTD from Malta. The project partners made field researches, identified deficiencies and exchanged good practices of their countries to contribute to the filling of the gap between countries and to encourage entrepreneurship among members of the profession.While our project will continue for a period of 24 months, it has been completed in 30 months by taking extra time for 6 months for because of partner countries are not sufficiently prepared for LTT activities (not having enough number of participants, unable to perform given tasks under desired conditions).During this period, 4 international meetings were held. The first and last meetings were hosted by the coordinator and the other two were hosted by the partners. In these international meetings, country-specific entrepreneurial data analyzes were made, which good practices were to be carried out, the dissemination activities were planned, and the design and management of the website were decided.Furthermore, it was determined which workshops were to be held at the meetings, and the outputs of the workshops were reviewed to idealize entrepreneurship education in professional techniques.During the LTT activity carried out in the coordinator country, the students collaborated interactively with vocational education and training students and their entrepreneurial skills were tested through workshops.Within the scope of exchange of good practices; ''responsible entrepreneurship'' awareness-raising activities for entrepreneurs were done under the guidance of UK partner (training, seminar, web page, success stories, printed materials).Under the guidance of Malta partner, mentoring networks have been created for young entrepreneurs,promotional efforts were made to ensure that young entrepreneurs are more engaged in entrepreneurship programs of the European Union. At the end of the project, the consortium created an entrepreneurship module for the teachers.An online platform was established at http://www.eevetproject.com which provided communication between partners during the project and shared their project work and outputs.The partnership was implemented at the Gölhisar vocational training center with a pilot program, enabling local and national authorities to decide on the promotion of entrepreneurship education in vocational education and training.In this context, entrepreneurship trainings for women were opened at Gölhisar and information meetings were held for young entrepreneurs.As a result of all the project activities, an awareness was created in Gölhisar in the field of entrepreneurship which will provide individual and social welfare among vocational education teachers and students.In addition, a well-structured entrepreneurship training was established in the professional module, which is the concrete output of the project, and an effective material support was provided for teachers. In this context, the project has been a source of support for research aiming at the determination of entrepreneurship situation and the development of entrepreneurship in Turkey due to its mission of preparing ground for future research and initiatives.Our project,in long term, will contribute to the development of a culture that has adopted entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in our country.In 2020/2021 academic year, an "entrepreneurial school model" that encompasses teachers, students and parents and encourages entrepreneurship were developed.