A SCUOLA DI IMPRESA is a project carried out in our Community and around Europe addressed to High School students.

The aim of the project is to spread the culture of enterprise in young people and the development of entrepreneurship through the activation of practical experience of learning. The project aims to : contribute to the cooperation between the academic world and the business world through the definition of experimental directed to support integrated training courses for students of secondary schools aimed at promoting entrepreneurship , even by comparison with other national and European ; promote to young corporate culture and the development of entrepreneurship through the activation of practical experience of learning, training courses and seminars; develop character dell'interregionalità regarding the creation of networks at regional, national and international level through study visits aimed at the comparison between the practical experience of learning experiences . To achieve these aims , the project aims to involve schools in the area to allow students in the fourth year of high school to participate in competitions with experimental and innovative . The students, divided into teams , following a targeted training, simulating a business plan , starting a business idea conceived by them . At the end of that path , the teams of the schools involved are compared with each other through the course of a race, during which will be awarded the best business plan . Students will fulfill all the way from a business idea to a business plan , which is the end product of the training phase . For the winning team is reserved for a prize with a study visit to Brussels. For the best ideas will be organized opportunities to meet with potential companies interested in the project and with any lenders.

For more information: http://www.scuolaimpresa.net/#!home-eng/c1vbg

 

TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS GROUPS - TBG - KA2 ERASMUS+

TBG aims at developing entrepreneurial skills using online tools for both hard and soft skills. Not only students will be involved, but teachers will be so as well. The course and its materials that will be created, the workshops conclusions, the virtual companies online competition will be incorporated at partners teaching and training regular activities, so that other could benefit.

The main objectives are: to help students create their own business by taking full informed responsibility for the decisions and respecting ecology, regional identity but global market;  promote European business cooperation and competition by creating international mixed groups of students in each virtual company; to give students practical skills about how companies are managed; to provide knowledge of national and European markets; to motivate pupils to search for work in Europe; to promote intercultural understanding and awareness; to promote European Citizenship.

These objectives match the European objectives at a macro level, because they relate to the Europe 2020 Strategy ones: employment, innovation, education. Regarding the Communiqué, this project develops partnerships between education and business, locally, regionally and internationally. It also develops innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, as well as the use of ICT.

It also respects KA2 objectives, by developing innovative methodologies to improve and promote entrepreneurial approach in education. Facing the existing youth unemployment in Europe it intends to focus on students through a flexible and open way to develop entrepreneurial skills, providing them with a comprehensive and systematic training tool.

For more information: http://transnationalbusinessgroups.eu/tbg/

TEACHER 2020 On the road to entreprenieruaikl fluency in teacher education - KA2 ERASMUS+

The European Commission calls for a dramatic change across all forms of education. One of the major challenges in to create entrepreneurial mind-sets among institutions, teachers and students of all ages. Entrepreneurial mentality in education is not primarily about establishing a business, but about creating new learning approaches through which we learn in real-life scenarios – addressing community and societal challenges, bringing about change and working with relevant players from all sectors in local or global networks.

Teacher2020 has been granted to try out some first steps, to explore what entrepreneurial learning means in different contexts – and to carry out practical experiments with entrepreneurial learning in teacher education and in collaboration with schools from different countries.We are reminded by the Commission that entrepreneurial learning happens through entrepreneurial action, and this is why we are not setting out to read a lot of entrepreneurship theory. We will learn through hopefully informed, well-guided and well-directed approaches, allowing us to create solid lessons learned from which we can proceed and contribute to Europe.

In the beginning of the project we will therefore work to establish a strong mutual understanding of what entrepreneurial learning means and how experiments can be carried out in practice. We expect this mutual understanding to result in a project platform.Thenwe will take the first experimentative steps of smaller entrepreneurial initiatives, involving teacher students, schools and communitycollaborators.We will create local driver teams and link them together at transnational level. The local driver teams will identify interesting subject areas or projects in teacher education and in the schools and link those to real-life challenges.Teams of teacher students and school teachers and kids will work through the different phases of entrepreneurial learning and create useful outcomes from their experience.This work phase will end in a sort of time-out in which we will discuss what we learned and what need to be changed.The major project experimentation will be based on and follow those lessons learned, in the form of entrepreneurial learning period generating substantial initiatives at local and transnational levels.The documentation of those activities will lead to the creation of the final outcomes.The project will create guidance for teachers, teacher students and schools wishing to go entrepreneurial – guidance that allows them to build their own entrepreneurial capacity, not simply to repeat what we did. Not guidance from WHAT we did, but from HOW we did it.

For more information: https://teacher2020project.wordpress.com