Background
The project starts from the current economic worldwide situation to provide the necessity to develop school programmes based on entrepreneurial skills. Today, Globalisation and Glocalisation represent a relational model oriented towards the cooperation among cultures with the scope to preserve local identities into global economic process.
Many students leave the school with a low or inexistent knowledge in the entrepreneurial field and the teachers are often without competences.
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Objectives
In order to sustain these needs, and through the upgrading of teachers’ professional
competences, the project wants to implement the students’ entrepreneurial competences developing multicriterial skills and an active citizenship. The direct target group is formed by 384 students (aged15-18 years) and 48 teachers with low skills on entrepreneurial field, working as teams with local companies, stakeholders and experts in the field. Our project will learn to 348 students how to create a firm and will prepare 48 teachers for the subject matter. Moreover, several thousands of teachers and students will be indirect participants and users of our project results.
Other aims are:
1) the implementation of a partnership among training and real companies;
2) the implementation of the collaborative learning and critical thinking among all actors;
3) the development of communication skills in a foreign language;
4) the development of an active European citizenship.
Methodologies and management
The experience will be developed by “Cooperative Learning” and “Learning by doing” methodology; moreover, the project will be carried out using the teamwork, workshops, roleplay, visits, and case studies. The management of the project consists in monitoring, evaluating, reporting and archiving, financial and accounting activities, as well as informative, promotional and advertising activities for its dissemination. The partnership will be employed in joint staff training events for teachers and project work for students.
Impacts on local communities
The contribute to the decreasing of unemployment rate at the teenager’s level, to increase the quality of education at local level, and more interaction between firms and school programmes. As concerns the benefit in the long term we have effects between school offers and job demands. Another aspect regards the importance that school has in the education of students and its role in society as an agent of change.
Planned activities
A) Entrepreneurial Lab (E@Lab) in each school partners, where students and teachers meet experts to receive knowledge and tools to develop their firms; B) Implementation of a Cross-Regional Thematic Network (CReTNet) within the partnership to improve key-competences; C) Movie, Project Logo, until 12 Training Firms, and eCommerce portal; D) EXPO made during the Inca’s fair where students and teachers will participate to promote their products; E) Tours/Trails, Posters, Twin Space site, online-school magazine, Website, Facebook-Instagramm-Youtube account, eBook of the project, Booklet/guide about how to set a business in Europe.