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Entrepreneurship:

"An individual's ability to turn ideas intoaction. It includes creativity, innovation,

showing initiative and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage

projects in order to achieve objectives."

Entrepreneurial orientation…

“The propensity to act autonomously, innovate and take

risks, proactive with regard to opportunities...”

Entrepreneurship in the context of the teaching & learning process…

"a process through which learners acquire a broad set of competencies

that can bring greater individual, social and economic benefits since the

competences acquired lend themselves to application in every aspect of

people's lives."

European framework on Key Competences for Lifelong Learning* - 8 key

competences:

1. Communication in the mother tongue2. Communication in foreign languages3. Mathematical competence and basic

competences in science and technology4. Digital competence5. Learning to learn6. Social and civic competences7. Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship8. Cultural awareness and expression

Funding from the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme / DG Enterprise.

3-year project (2013-2015) - 11 consortium partners - 5 private sector partners.

Target group = Teachers primary, secondary and vocational schools (over 4,000 teachers in 18 European

countries)

A Virtual Guide to Entrepreneurial Learning has been designed to provide educators with a diverse range of tools and methods that support entrepreneurial learning

About the Entrepreneurial School Project:

The partners in the European project

8 National Focus Groups

search for and verify best practice in entrepreneurial learning

identify a pilot network of 80 primary and secondary schools in 8 countries

propose models which will be tested in schools and adjusted to national school curricula.

 Available in English and translated in at least 8 languages

Let’s discover the Virtual Guide to Entrepreneurial Learning...

www.tesguide.euwww.entrepreneurialschool.eu

Search in Tools and Methods:

Search Good Practice Schools and Case Study Schools:

Examples of visions, plans, job descriptions and frameworks to learn from and to use in your own school from several countries

Case Study Schools which are good practitioners of entrepreneurial learning.

Two web-based tools: 1. self-assessment for teachers in primary, secondary and vocational school;

2. a quality checklist for schools.

The EU Entrepreneurial Schools Award:

The consortium established an Entrepreneurial Schools Award in the 3rd year of the project, ‘branded’ as an EU

award.

11 schools from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and

United Kingdom were awarded during a ceremony that took place at the European Parliament in Brussels on October 15,

2015.

Thank you!

Maïté Debry - Project Manager maite.debry@eun.org