We wanted the students to: - Understand the concept & the various types of entrepreneurship - Develop the competences of young entrepreneurs, or, in other words, their personal skills, knowledge about how to set up and manage an enterprise and entrepreneurial attitudes - Help the students to be capable of recognizing opportunities that others do not, to become capable of bringing together and managing resources, and to act in risk situations in which others might hesitate - Encourage students to acquire personal qualities that contribute towards the development of an enterprising attitude, which will prove to be useful in their daily lives. - Foster the development of personal qualities, such as creativity, and the spirit of enterprise and independence, problem solving and identification capability. - Foster innovation, adaptability, leadership skills, collaboration, communication and critical thinking - Construct new knowledge from multiple perspectives - Include students with fewer opportunities - Support active citizenship and ethics in lifelong learning
With the partners we discussed about the real need to incorporate entrepreneurship education in primary schools. Entrepreneurs today help solve problems of unemployment, economic stagnation, and many other socio-economic problems. But for a country to have more entrepreneurs and more available jobs it is necessary that those people receive an adequate education. And it is much easier to do it early so that knowledge can be built on. We need to develop a set of skills and the right mindset. And this cannot be achieved in a hurry, it needs to be worked on methodically from a young age. So, as primary schools we decided that perfect time to start that educational cycle is the age that we want to work with; so that their creativity and optimism can be used to maximize the effects. The topic of entrepreneurship education into primary schools is still being ignored. The main reason for that is the fact that the current educational system is outdated and relies on traditional teaching methods. Yet the world has changed. It needs people who will think outside the box, have creativity and potential. And after many questionnaires we had with the students, we realized that teaching entrepreneurship is the need for our schools.