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Going Green in Entrepreneurship Education

2021-1-EE01-KA220-SCH-0000344182021Cooperation partnerships in school educationfinalized
Countries: EE|PT|CY|LT · Grant: €125,345
Creating new, innovative or joint curricula or coursesEntrepreneurial learning - entrepreneurship educationGreen skills

Objectives

Our first objective was to create a teaching material for schools with active learning exercises, simulations, discussion materials and environmental business games so that learning will be more interesting for students and they could understand better the real problem and the possible ways for solving it. These materials were addressed to teachers who could implement them in classrooms for several years, and can also change themselves according to their students abilities, working tasks and changing world around us. The second objective was to create an on-lline self-assessment tool for learners to understand their impact and to analyse it themselves. Very oftenr students they that they are ecofriendly but they use only leftovers of companies or reuse materials when implementing their entrepreneurship lesson task. All other element were not taken into consideration at all. This assessment tool is meant for their learning process, not for teachers to put grades. It can be used several times during the learning process to see their own achievements in environmental business process.

Background

All our partners have been engaged in entrepreneurship education for years teaching young people how to start and manage enterprises, create jobs for themselves and for other people. This all has been useful but during the last ten years we all have started to feel that environmental aspect has to be added to our curricula. Businesses have the greatest impact on environment using too much not recoverable resources, causing a huge amount of leftovers, often having poor waste management, commiting into climate change with transportation and other business gases, making people to consume too much as a result of excessive marketing, etc. We have tried to add elements of environmental thinking into our programs it but it has not been enough and we all have felt that the materials for teaching green entrepreneurship are missing. there are some theoretical materials, but often they are not interesting for young people and we have experiences also ourselves that learning by doing has more impact on changing attitudes. So we gathered to find and create active learning materials for making students understand the impact that they have on the world and for teaching them how to change their activities into environmentally sustainable ones.

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