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ENSPIRE EU. by Project Partner Pablo Morales Chamber of Commerce of Seville. Entrepreneurship Education and the World of Work Sevilla, 5th October 2011. WWW.ENSPIRE.EU. AGENDA . WHAT IS ENSPIRE EU ABOUT ?
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ENSPIRE EU by Project Partner Pablo Morales Chamber of Commerce of Seville • Entrepreneurship Education and the World of Work • Sevilla, 5th October 2011 WWW.ENSPIRE.EU
AGENDA WHAT IS ENSPIRE EU ABOUT? Project aim, The consortium, Background, Challenges, Solutions, Opportunities, Target groups & Activities. SHALL WE INSPIRE TOGETHER? Pleaseshareyourideas, thoughts and experienceswithus!
BACKGROUND “The desire for Europeans to be self-employed is decreasing. -Especially in the EU15.” Eurobarometer Entrepreneurship Survey 2007 and 2009
ENSPIRE EU Expenses for improvement of entrepreneurialframework e.g: Small Business Act More Finance Free Access to Counseling Entrepreneurialmindset: Willingness to BecomeEntrepreneur
PROJECT AIM Enspire EU aims to boost the Enprepreneurialmindset by: • IDENTIFYINGandSHOWCASINGtheBESTPRACTICES of howweinspire Europeans to becomeentrepreneurs • EXCHANGE THESE BEST PRACTICES i.e. transfer and adoptsuccessfulinitiatives from aroundEurope • PROVIDING POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS for better policy effectuationwithinentrepreneurship
CHALLENGES • AWARENESS OF THE ALTERNATIVE that self-employment is to being a wage earner • ACCESS TO CAPITAL – especially relevant to the ENSPIRE EU target groups • ADMINISTRATIVE BARRIERS to put up your own business • SUCCES RATE for small and medium sized businesses
SOLUTIONS • AWARENESS CREATION • CREATE INCENTIVES TO BECOME SELF-EMPLOYED • REMOVE OBSTACLES - administrative barriers etc.
TARGET GROUPS The 3 Target Groups as defined by the consortium: • DISADVANTAGED/ CHALLENGED: Women, Migrants and disabled people • DISCOURAGED: Long-term unemployed people (over 45 years old) and people with a low level of education • DISCONNECTED: Young people at the secondary level of education who are disconnected from the school system.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CONSORTIUM • KNOWLEDGE OF EUROPE’S PROBLEMS IN THIS FIELD • A BIG NUMBER OF SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS • A STRONG BASIS TO INFLUENCE POLICIES
The Best Practices 15 Best Practices 52 GoodPractices + 200 identifiedpractices
Good practices identified related to entrepreneurial education • EDISON (Denmark) • ENTREPRENEURIAL HALLAND (Sweden) • ENTRIS (Sweden) • GROWTH (Sweden)
EDISON (Denmark) - age 13 • Runs over four months. • Edison is focusing on pupils’ and teachers’ approach and ability to be creative and on product development. • Pupils go from idea to product and end at a marketplace with similar school projects. • Cross-curricular teaching, that shifts between theory and practice. • Give the pupils a special knowledge about the entrepreneurial mindset.
EDISON (Denmark) - age 13 • Pupils’ projects participate in regional and national competitions and in trade fairs. • Recognized by the European Commision as ”Best Practice in Entrepreneurship Education”. • Project Edison combines the practical with theory, which enables all pupils to participate equally with their competences. • It shows how entrepreneurship teaching in a simple way can create young entrepreneurs. • Teachers are participating in a camp, to learn how to use the tools needed for educating the pupils.
ENTREPRENEURIAL HALLAND (Sweden) • The main goal is to raise the proportion of individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit • The initiative focuses on schools, teaching school staff about entrepreneurial learning, creating meetings between the various stakeholders that need to come together as well as working on the conditions for starting businesses and/or commercializing ideas . • Recognized by the European Commision as ”Best Practice in Entrepreneurship Education”.
ENTRIS (Sweden) • The goal is to implement entrepreneurialteching methods in schools. • The focus of the initiatives is to give school staff the knowledge and the tools to implement entrepreneurial teching methods. • The education system are supposed to prepare children and youth for jobs not yet existing, for solving problems not yet known, with technology not yet invented! • Therefore ENTRIS offer competence in entrepreneurial learning approach to school personnel.
GROWTH (Sweden) • The goal is to reach school development through teachers based training in the topic of entrepreneurial learning. • The initiative uses a process based on teachers training method where the project coaches each school in the development process into a more entrepreneurial learning environment.
Thankyou for your attention: LET’S ENSPIRE TOGETHER! More information at www.enspire.eu Find film, Best practicereport, Partner information and much more!