This project on Entrepreneurship Education in Europe (EEE) will help link education to employment through the use of enterprises and entrepreneurial skills, this is the main objective. It will increase students’ knowledge of entrepreneurship,self-employment and contribute to the free movement of European citizens. We will target at least three of the EU eight key competences for lifelong learning: • Communication in foreign languages • The sense of initiative and entrepreneurship • Cultural awareness and expression We plan to involve a vast number of business, economy and trade students of the five participating schools in Great Britain, France, Malta, Finland and Austria, aged 16 to 20. Most students will be part of the project at their own schools, but some students from each school will also be given the possibility of taking part in one of the short term exchange weeks (EEE week) at one of the participating schools in another country. The teachers will meet in short- term staff training events. Activities and methodology will include visits to enterprises, interviews, questionnaires, discussion panels,learning cafes and presenting pitches as well as research in teams into job markets, making videos and leaflets. The CLIL methodology will also be used. During all the assignments and activities a focus is put on P21's Framework for 21st Century Learning Skills: Learning and Innovation ( 4Cs), Digital literacy, Career and Life ( Social and Cross culture interaction, leadership and responsibility, flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self direction). In the project we will organize five short- term exchanges of groups of pupils for the students of the five participating countries and four short -time joint staff training events for teachers,each dealing with a specific topic relevant for the project e.g Business start ups, teambuilding, leadership or marketing.The students will mostly stay with host families in order to get insight into other cultures and traditions and get closer contact to their hosts. The joint staff training events for teachers are aimed at exchanges of best practices among teachers focusing on how to improve teaching of specialized subjects, like entrepreneurship education, business and economy. The project outcomes: *A portfolio containing teaching materials for teaching entrepreneurship education in various subjects applying new methodologies e.g lesson plans, assignment, interview templates. Another chapter in the portfolio will focus on how to organize Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils (EEE weeks) from preparation to organization and implementation. It should serve as a sample model and guide for future international cooperations among schools. *Another result will be a webpage where you can find all the uploaded materials for teaching entrepreneurship education and a guide for organising and conducting EEE weeks. *Results and impacts that we hope for the participants: a better knowledge of the world of work, European enterprises and Start ups, more self-confidence, higher proficiency in English and a better cultural awareness and understanding. In schools we will develop better didactics and methodology for teaching entrepreneurship and business, thanks to the exchange of good practices and cooperation in making and compiling lesson plans and materials. In a longer perspective we hope that our portfolio will become part of the curriculum for entrepreneurship education at schools and will be used in all the partner countries. In Austria we hope for recognition at the "eesi Impulszentrum" ,Centre for Entrepreneurship Education for school Innovation. The main benefits of the EEE project are: close cooperation of participants with the real world of employment, deep insight into local job markets, concrete examples of successful entrepreneurs and above all, exchange of good practices among teachers. We also feel that one huge benefit lies in students actually meeting students in other countries and staying in their homes. This will definitely help fight xenophobia, racism and extremism, and instead give our students an intercultural competence and promote an understanding between peoples.
Context of the project and main objectives: This project on Entrepreneurship Education in Europe (EEE) was the link between education to employment through the use of enterprises and entrepreneurial skills. We fulfilled to target three of the EU eight key competences for lifelong learning: • Communication in foreign languages • The sense of initiative and entrepreneurship • Cultural awareness and expression Activites: We planned 9 LTTAs altogether. 4 LTTA Weeks ( C1-C4) Short-term joint staff training events each dealing with an other relevant topic for the project. The joint staff training events for teachers were aimed at exchanges of best practices among teachers focusing on how to improve teaching of entrepreneurship education, business and economy. GB: Start up Business and Team Building Methods of Teamwork, social competences, tools for pitching business ideas , Malta: Business Plan, Marketing and Market research, marketing strategies, entrepreneurial learning; France: Leadership: Personal competencies, strengths and weaknesses, personality tests, leadership qualities, personal profiles, business games; Finland: Finance, financial literacy and sources of finance, Evaluation and Dissemination - this meeting was held as a web conference via MS TEAMS) 5 LTTAs-EEE weeks (C5-C9) Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils to above mentioned topics where the materials composed in the teachers' LTTAs were tested with students. Austria hosted the first EEE week with students from France and Malta. At an EEE week 5-6 students each from 2 participating countries traveled .To foster cultural awareness host students mostly stayed with host families. Activities and methodology included visits to enterprises, discussion panels,learning cafés and presenting pitches as well as research in teams into job markets, making videos and leaflets. The CLIL methodology was applied for the non native English speakers. During all the assignments and activities a focus is put on P21's Framework for 21st Century Learning Skills: Learning and Innovation ( 4Cs), Digital literacy, Career and Life ( Social and Cross culture interaction, leadership and responsibility, flexibility and adaptability, initiative and self direction). Example of EEE week in Bridgewater:15 students arrived at Bridgwater and Taunton College to participate in their EEE week, with the theme of start ups and Teamwork. Students from Malta and Finland joined with the British students to participate, engage and mostly importantly enjoy their time together The aim of the week was to enable the students to understand the skills needed to set up and run a consultative team, design concepts and to have the opportunity to prepare a pitch and to understand how to set up a dynamic and functioning team in a short space of time. These were framed around a real life project to help ‘The Sports Project’ a not for profit community interest company. The Sports Project intention is to develop as many children as possible not just in sport, but also in themselves, by embedding values such as respect, independence, confidence, leadership and teamwork. During the course of this project a number of educators and students were given the opportunity to interact with peers in other countries and collaborate on specific entrepreneurship related tasks. In Malta much of the subject matter covered in the joint staff meetings and the student mobilities have now been integrated as part of the Entrepreneurship course. From the student perspective, the fact that they could work on specific entrepreneurship related subject matter, work in teams, communicate and collaborate, provide presentations, etc. meant that they could hone in on the soft skills that are an essential part of their holistic education. The project outcomes: *A portfolio containing teaching materials for teaching entrepreneurship education in various subjects applying new methodologies e.g lesson plans, assignments, interview templates and feedback tools, timetables of the LTTAs. *The EEE webpage where you can find all the uploaded materials for teaching entrepreneurship education (www.entrepreneur-education.eu) * EEE-logo *Results and impacts: a better knowledge of the world of work, European enterprises and Start ups, more self-confidence, higher proficiency in English and a better cultural awareness and understanding. In a longer perspective we hope that our portfolio will become part of the curriculum for entrepreneurship education at schools. The main benefits of the EEE project: close cooperation of participants with the real world of employment, insight into local job markets,exchange of good practices among teachers. We also feel that one huge benefit lies in students actually meeting students in other countries and staying in their homes.