Entrepreneurship Education in Europe Simone Baldassarri Entrepreneurship & Social Economy DG...

Entrepreneurship Education in Europe

Simone Baldassarri

Entrepreneurship & Social Economy

DG Enterprise and Industry

20 March 2013

The EU citizens are less eager to be entrepreneurs...Answer to the question “Do you prefer to be self employed or an entrepreneur to being an employee?”

37%

51%

56%

In the EU men are more likely than women to prefer self-employment (by a margin of 42% to 33%), while women are more likely to prefer working as an employee (63% to 53%).

• 1. Entrepreneurial education and training• create new generations of entrepreneurs

• 2. Creating an environment where entrepreneurs can flourish and grow

• 3. Role models and reaching out = radical cultural change• entrepreneurship as 'the new cool’ • more involvement of women, unemployed youth, migrants,

seniors

Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan:

Skills acquired in student companies

Personal skills: Business skills:

• Team working • Basic economics

• Communication • Financial literacy

• Self-confidence • Developing market research

• Taking initiative • Drafting a business plan

• Problem-solving • Raising finance

• Taking calculated risk • Sales techniques

• Leadership • Running a business meeting

Elements of a Strategy

7

Entrepreneurial approach:

• Training “in”, learning

• Also personal competences

• Flexible, adaptable

• Training material, cases

• Student oriented

• Group process, interaction

• “Clash room”, diversity

• More coaching role for teacher

• Project, interdisciplinary

• Close to real life and business

• Action oriented

Traditional approach:

• Education “about”

• Knowledge in disciplines

• Fixed study plan

• Textbooks

• Teacher oriented

• Class, individual activity

• Classroom, homogeneous

• Lecturing

• Subjects, disciplines

• Close to research, academia

• Study, theory oriented

Martin Lauth, 2010

• Exchange of experience and good practice, networking

• Support European projects (co-financing)

• Publish guidelines and self-assessment tools

• Studies, work on indicators and data collection

• Monitoring progress

Activities at EU level

Entrepreneurship 2020 – EU level

•Develop a European network or hub for entrepreneurial learning

•Reinforce co-operation and the exchange of experience between the Member States

Entrepreneurship 2020 – Member States

• Embed the key competence "entrepreneurship" into curricula (all levels).

• Young people should have at least one practical entrepreneurial experience before leaving secondary education (e.g. running a mini-company, being responsible for an entrepreneurial project for a company or a social project, etc.)

• Create a Europe-wide on-line mentoring, advisory, educational and business networking platform for women entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurship 2020 – EU level

•THANK YOU