We believe that everyone involved in enterprise and entrepreneurship education should have first-hand practical experience that they can use to improve the design and delivery of their provision. Entrepreneurial Training for Enterprise Educators (ETEE) is a response to this, informed by research undertaken on behalf of the European Commission as well as consultation with our target audience and the wider entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our partnership is composed of an HEI experienced in enterprise, another at the beginning of their journey, a leading European innovation agency and two expert enterprise and entrepreneurship training organisation – the partnership is perfectly crafted to create an exceptional and unique contribution to the positive momentum in enterprise and entrepreneurship education. HEIs are one of the most significant components in our entrepreneurial ecosystems and have the capacity to deliver enormous impact. The two main groups internally that contribute are the staff in the wider enterprise/careers team and the academic staff engaged with enterprise and business partners. It is rare for people in these groups to have genuine entrepreneurial experience, as by nature entrepreneurs are more likely to work independently. However, there is demand for this experience to greatly improve the impact, efficacy and functioning of the enterprise and entrepreneurship provision and wider engagement in the ecosystem. ETEE is an opportunity for all to have their own journey in a safe, development focused environment. The learning it offers will have wide and long-term impact on their organisation, those within it and the wider community. Our objectives are to deliver clear understanding and practical experience for staff involved in the ecosystem that can positively impact their work, make it more relevant, appropriate, engaging and impactful for everyone involved. The Training Programme will also improve the profile and attraction of roles in enterprise education and therefore improve recruitment, and retention of high quality staff. Our objective branches to include improving skills, competencies, qualities and capacity for innovation to all staff involved. Additionally, ETEE will work with external target groups (staff in VET providers, incubators/accelerators) to extend the impact into the ecosystem beyond HEIs. We aim to engage indirectly with 1000 beneficiaries across the ecosystem, and achieve this through consultation and feedback activities, training activities, a combined Communication and Dissemination Plan, a significant Exploitation Plan, 4 Multiplier Events and activation of our joint networks together with momentum generated around the ETEE project itself. This is a project for all of Europe, and will offer open access for all. There are 4 Intellectual Outputs in the ETEE project, which cover the development work required such as research, consultation, best practice gathering across the EU and initial scoping work for the ETEE Training Programme, then the ETEE Programme Outline will create the skeleton and user journey and provide an early opportunity to request feedback from the community to enhance our outputs. The design, construction and testing of the full ETEE Training Programme will fully populate the ETEE Programme, and finally there will be a Trainers Pack to enable independent use of ETEE. These outputs will be carried out by our partnership, together with a high level of involvement from all stakeholders including our target groups, the business community, experienced entrepreneurs, senior leaders within HEIs and staff representatives from all groups. The inception of ETEE followed the coherent and clear desire of enterprise and entrepreneurship educators to have the opportunity to experience entrepreneurialism first hand, because ‘until we have done it ourselves, how can we know what really makes the difference'. The result we will deliver is an exciting Training Programme that describes the real entrepreneurial experience and all of its ups and downs, that can be used freely across Europe. This result will be effectively disseminated and exploited across target groups to deliver a wide impact in partner countries, but also as widely as possible across Europe. The impact will be more engaged, positive, experienced and innovative staff working to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem thrive and flourish. For HEIs there will be an increase in capacity for innovation, improved cooperation with business, increased numbers of entrepreneurs and successful businesses started, and better cooperation internally. The potential long-term benefits from ETEE are a better skilled young workforce, with high quality relevant employability and enterprise skills, an increase in entrepreneurs and successful start-ups, greater cooperation between academics and businesses (including start-ups), the best quality enterprise and entrepreneurship provision globally – across all of Europe.
We believe that everyone involved in enterprise and entrepreneurship education should have first-hand practical experience of entrepreneurship that they can use to improve the design and delivery of their provision. Entrepreneurial Training for Enterprise Educators (ETEE) is a response to this, informed by research undertaken on behalf of the European Commission as well as consultation with our target audience and the wider entrepreneurial ecosystem. The overall objective of ETEE was to improve and enhance enterprise and entrepreneurship provision of HEIs and other organisations so that it delivers more powerful impact for the end-users, through the design and development of a training programme for enterprise educators: those people who have the greatest influence and responsibility in the design and delivery of enterprise provision, the academic staff who embed enterprise in their teaching, and professional service staff who deliver extra-curricular activities. To achieve this, partners designed, built and tested the ETEE Training Programme, with the close engagement of stakeholders and potential beneficiaries, to achieve a need-driven solution. ETEE: - Is aligned with the EC Entrepreneurship Competency framework (EntreComp) to ensure ETEE incorporates the essential competencies identified within EntreComp; - Gives participants first-hand practical entrepreneurial experience by including ‘real world’ elements such as selling, pitching, and idea development; - Promotes and supports the capacity for creativity and innovation; - Enables participants to incorporate EE within validated, assessed modules and courses; - Provides the content and resources to genuinely influence the quality of enterprise provision; - Includes the ETEE Canvas to give structure to the programme and clear outputs for all participants - Develops the entrepreneurial confidence of participants through a challenge-based approach; - Supports the development of a sustainable ETEE alumni network for long term sharing of good practice. - Supports the development of a network of educators within and beyond organisations The below list project target groups were identified at the early stage of the project implementation as groups who will integrate the project activities and benefit from the project products: • Higher Education Institutions - Enterprise Educators developing and delivering EE in the curriculum. Academic staff; • Higher Education Institutions - Staff working outside or alongside the curriculum in enterprise/careers departments; • Staff at Enterprise support organisations (such as incubators) • Staff developing and delivering Enterprise Educators in VET Institutions; • Entrepreneurs and start-up experts; • Students; Throughout the project lifetime, we have directly and indirectly engaged with approximately 6,000 beneficiaries across the ecosystem. We achieved this through consultation and feedback activities, training activities, a combined Communication and Dissemination Plan, a significant Exploitation Plan, 4 Multiplier Events and activation of our joint networks together with the momentum generated around the ETEE project itself. There are 4 Intellectual Outputs in the ETEE project, which cover the development work required such as research, consultation, best practice gathering across the EU and initial scoping work for the ETEE Training Programme, then the ETEE Programme Outline created the skeleton and user journey and provided an early opportunity to request feedback from the community to enhance our outputs. The design, construction and testing of the full ETEE Training Programme fully populated the ETEE Programme, and finally, there is a Trainers Pack to enable independent use of ETEE. These outputs were carried out by our partnership, together with a high level of involvement from all stakeholders including our target groups, the business community, experienced entrepreneurs, senior leaders within HEIs and staff representatives from all groups. The impact is expected to be more engaged, positive, experienced and innovative staff working to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem so it may thrive and flourish. For HEIs there will be an increase in capacity for innovation, improved cooperation with business, increasing numbers of entrepreneurs and successful businesses started, and better cooperation internally. The potential long-term benefits from ETEE are a better-skilled young workforce, with high-quality, relevant employability and enterprise skills, an increase in entrepreneurs and successful start-ups, greater cooperation between academics and businesses (including start-ups), the best quality enterprise and entrepreneurship provision globally – across all of Europe.