The Entrepreneur's Skills Certificate: Unlocking Entrepreneurial Potential

1. The Entrepreneur´s Skills Certificate Concept and materials May 28, 2009 www.bitonline.cc

2. EU calls upon all Member States to safeguard the provision of entrepreneurship education Action Plan: The European agenda for Entrepreneurship (COM(2004)70final)The Commission has called upon Member States:  to integrate entrepreneurship education into all schools’ curricula and provide schools with proper support to allow them to put in place effective and high quality education schemes  to ensure high quality entrepreneurship education for all pupils throughout the EU 2

3. The Entrepreneur’s Skills Certificate ... • ... is an additional qualification for entrepreneurial mindset • ... leads to the awarding of an international certificate • ... is supported by innovative learning tools & technologies • ... meets the aims of the European Commission initiative (Entrepreneurship competence) • …was awarded best practice in Oslo 2007 and “Good Practice Exchange under the European charter for small enterprises 2008-2009”.

4. Level Modules Content BasicLevel A Fundamental Economic Know -How Examination B Key Aspects of Economics Examination C Key Aspects of Business Administration Examination Advanced Level Supplementary knowledge at the level of a Business Administration exam UP Examination

5. The benefits… ... for entrepreneurs ... for students ... for educators Easily integrated within the curriculum A better start as entrepreneur Training and certicationat the level of Business Administration Increased cooperation between schools and business community Verifiable academic success A uniform standard A better start at universities Additional skills Better qualified staff Qualified further education Easier career choices Better competitiveness A substitute for the Entrepreneur´s Examination Additional teacher´s materials 

6. The ESC teaching and learning products consist of... • e-ESC- the learning programme • Learning sequences • Training sequences • Textbooks for students • Basic contents and in-depth information • Exercises / questionaires • Teacher support materials • Teacher book with didactic suggestions • Materials on CD(Exercises, ppt-slides,…)

7. ESC – Learning Sequences • Multimedia learning and excercise pages • Text, graphics, sound and audio • Basic info & self-test materialson the main level • Detailed info & supplementary material

8. For every learning sequence the appropriate training sequence • Training sequences in flash-card mode • Correctly answered questions are put aside as „finished“ • Incorrectly solved exercises are moved to the end • Practice until the „exercise stack“ is mastered • For comprehensive repetition / test preparation, all of the exercises can be repeated ? ? x x x x  

9. The ESC Online Testing Solution • A dedicated testing system has been developed for the ESC exam. • Authorised test centres will be equipped with this testing system, which will be used for executing the exams. • Any training institution that fulfills the system requirements for the standardised exam, can become an authorised test centre. • Not only the testing system (automatic test evaluation), but the quesiton pool as well, is uniform – objective testing is guaranteed.

10. Test System & Test Evaluation • Automatic test evaluation at the end of the test • Test results for students and examiners

11. ESC: References • Austria: around 20.000 practicioners so far • Germany: over 15.000 practicioners since 2007 • Luxemburg: starting 2009 • Upcoming: Switzerland, Ireland, UK, France, Poland, Czech Republic, UAE, Russia, Kosovo, Rumania

12. Thank you for your attention ! Stefan Düss stefan.duess@bitonline.cc www.bitonline.cc