Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 14/03/2012
The ViE project seeks to address the barriers faced by blind and partially sighted people trying to enter the labour market by promoting entrepreneurship as a viable option. Tangible results will be a toolkit of bespoke learning materials, competencies and delivery methods for Vocational Education and Training (VET) organisations.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 25/01/2012
DG Enteprise has launched a new call on entrepreneurship education. Projects to be supported will focus on one of the following objectives (priority areas):
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 10/01/2012
The European Entrepreneurship Educators Programme (3EP) will deliver Academies using an inclusive delivery model that both develops pedagogy and supports institutional change (‘the entrepreneurial university’).The 3EP vision is to support the creation a higher education sector across Europe capable of developing enterprising and entrepreneurial students, graduates and staff.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 10/01/2012
The Entrepreneurship Education 2012 conference organised by Vocational Education Centre Sedu will be held at Seinäjoki (Finland) on 19. – 20.1.2012. Under the slogan "From idea to diamond", this annual conference brings together researcher, practitioners, employers to discuss entrepreneurship success factors. The roster of speakers includes Professor Saras D. Saraswathy (Univ. of Darden, USA).
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 16/12/2011
On April 18-20, 2012, together with its institutional partners the University Andina Simón Bolivar in Ecuador will organise an international entrepreneurship congress which will bring together experts and academics in the field of start-up support, promoting entrepreneurial spirit, cultural economy, business development, business innovation, and entrepreneurial initiatives. A particular focus will on aspects of presenting and discussing inclusive and sustainable entrepreneurship initiatives.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 16/12/2011
A newly established working group on entrepreneurship education comprising experts from EU member countries, candidate countries and Norway is determined to pitch entrepreneurship education to the top of the EU policy agenda. Launched on 5 December by the Directorate General for Education and Culture, the first meeting of the working group pinned down a number of core challenges to address in the bid for a more developed entrepreneurship drive in Europe’s education system.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 29/11/2011
As part of the celebration of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Welsh government has recently published a brief newsletter on the delivery results of the first year of the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy (YES). According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2010, in the UK, 3.3% per cent of young adults aged 18-24 years are engaged in early-stage entrepreneurial activity. Wales recorded a rate of 6.7%. In addition, Wales follows a targeted approach on entrepreneurial eductation.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 26/10/2011
For more information and a link for downloading the report please go to the Policy Debate section of this website.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 26/10/2011
The University of Turku is looking for teachers, principals, teacher educators, entrepreneurs and other people interested in developing entrepreneurship education in Europe to answer a basic questionnaire online.
The link to the questionnaire can be found here.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 13/10/2011
Initiated by the European Commission, the European Training Foundation and the international research and consultancy agency ECORYS recently published a new report on 'Teacher Education for Entrepreneurship: Towards a Development Agenda'. The report provides a summary and evaluation of a pilot action on training teachers for entrepreneurship education funded by the EU Commission, DG Enterprise and DG Education and Culture.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 03/10/2011
On October 5-6, 2011, the transnational COMENIUS network 'Entrepreneurship Education & the World of Work' will host its first annual thematic conference in Seville.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 05/09/2011
'Competento – the Flemish Knowledge Centre on Entrepreneurial Education' is organizing an international study visit to show an international public of trainers, training managers and policy developers the state of the art on Entrepreneurial Training and Education in Flanders. The study visit will take place from Monday, November 14th to Thursday, November 17th.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 08/07/2011
Finland shows a sustained and committed support by the government and a good understanding of the need to engage a broad number of stakeholders in the development of a sound enterprise education policy.
Several enterprise education projects in all these areas are actually in operation with ESF funding. Current ESF Operational Programme allocates some €1.8 million for entrepreneurship education-related projects.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 08/07/2011
The Fresh Start project is a 24 month initiative co-funded by the European Commission, under the Directorate-General for Education and Culture.
The project aims to develop a specialized train-the-trainer course in order to provide European VET trainers with new skills that enable them to pass their training on developing young offenders’ entrepreneurial skills.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 08/07/2011
The High Level Symposium on 'Entrepreneurship Education: Teacher Education as critical success factor' took place in Budapest on 7th and 8th April. The event gathered 80 experts from all over Europe and debates focused around 5 main challenges:
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How to help primary and secondary teachers to become agents of change through initial teacher training
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Encouraging and enabling in-service teachers to engage in entrepreneurship education through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 08/07/2011
Initiativkreis „Unternehmergeist in die Schulen“
(Committee of initiatives “Promoting entrepreneurial skills in schools”)
The committee has been initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in 2007. At the moment it is formed by 11 initiatives who for years are actively engaged in this field. They meet for two working sessions in a year, present their activities at the “didacta” (The German fair on education and lifelong learning), organise information events and seminars.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 08/07/2011
The Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE) is the funding authority for the “Driving Change through Entrepreneurship Education and Competence” development programme. Finland is going at great lengths to strengthen the role of entrepreneurship education and to improve the competence of teaching staff in order to provide young people the skills and attitudes for coping with change and perceiving entrepreneurship as an attractive career option.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 08/07/2011
Recently published report by Joint Research Centre. The report focuses on areas where improvement is needed to enable more creative learning and innovative teaching: curricula, pedagogies and assesment, teacher training, ICT and digital media and educational culture and leadership. Most of the ideas contained in it do overlap to a great extent with the enterprise education agenda. A call for the need of more creative, innovative and enterprising learning ecosystems.
