El 30 de enero EntreComp Café en español vuelve por una última sesión bajo el proyecto de EntreComp Europe. EntreComp Café es una oportunidad única de compartir ideas con expertos en la educación emprendedora de diversos sectores, y de formar parte de la comunidad EntreComp.
En esta sesión contamos con la experiencia de Enrique Deltoro enfocado en Centros juveniles: ocio educativo en competencias básicas con adolescentes y EntreComp con adolescentes en el tiempo libre. Enrique es maestro y educador social. Formador de formadores, animador sociocultural, monitor de tiempo libre. Autor de diversos libros sobre metodología de la animación sociocultural y el trabajo con jóvenes y adolescentes. Técnico de Juventud y miembro activo de diferentes movimientos ciudadanos de educación en el tiempo libre. Coordinador del seminario de elaboración de materiales y recursos para intervenir con jóvenes mediante planes, programas, proyectos o programaciones de actividades, que organizó el IVAJ de la Generalitat Valenciana.
Puedes encontrar más información sobre los EntreComp Café en español e inglés en nuestra página web.
Welcome to the third edition of the EntreComp Europe project newsletter! Our project partners have been busy bringing entrepreneurial competences into their communities, so read on to find out what has been happening, and what is still to come. In this issue we have got an exciting announcement about the newly developed EntreComp badges and practice map, as well us updates from recent webinars and a celebration of EntreComp Edu graduates. You can also read more about and learn how to join The EntreComp Community.
Finally we have some great resources to share and an update on what is next for some of the EntreComp Europe partners.
Wishing you all a happy and entrepreneurial summer!
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This month we were delighted to welcome Amal Mahious, from Wallonie Emploi formation SPW, and Julie Carienelli, from Sowalfin Creation, to discuss their inspiring work with their platform Badgee. Sowalfin has created Badgee as a platform to support and promote competence for young people, helping them enhance their entrepreneurial competences through interactive and engaging online learning. With the world focused on the formal and academic aspects of education, people don’t believe they have the necessary skills, ability, and knowledge to launch their projects. That’s where Badgee comes in, picking up where formal education left off to show people they have the entrepreneurial attributes needed to succeed and enable them to share their competence with others.
Badgee invites you on an adventure as a traveller setting out to conquer the world with a storyline designed to encourage creative ideas and keep your motivation until the end. Sowalfin has broken the EntreComp competences into small interactive activities that test and improve students’ competence. After completing the tasks, each student is given a badge representing the competences they have developed. The progress badge is recorded on their personal virtual compass, which tracks and displays their progress.
Bagdes can be easily included on a CV, clearly displaying to employers student experience and ability in competences such as creative thinking, problem solving and teamwork, among many more. The badgee’s can also be validated by colleagues, employers, and wide ranging external stakeholders directly through their email, boosting the badge’s value as a more authentic certificate to showcase on your CV.
Badgee is a trailblazer in entrepreneurial education, using technology in a fun and interactive way to connect with students and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs. We look forward to seeing the evolution of Badgee and the impact it will make on the lives of young people everywhere.
Register now for this upcoming EntreComp Europe Open Space Webinar
Monday 13 June 14:00 – 15:15 CEST Online in English
The Junta de Extremadura, Bantani Education and the EntreComp Europe Practice Pillar for Assessment and Digitalisation invite you to join the latest event in the Open Space webinar series.
Open Badges: Recognising the International EntreComp Community brings together experts in open recognition to discuss how the EntreComp community can grow by recognising each others practices and celebrating success.
In addition to representatives from the EntreComp Europe partnership, we will be joined by Serge Ravet, founding member and President of Reconnaître—Open Recognition Alliance a not-for profit association dedicated to promoting the goals of the Bologna Open Recognition Declaration. From ePortfolio to Open Badges, recognition is at the heart of a professional life dedicated to exploring the contribution of digital technologies to the empowerment of individuals and communities, their ability to lead educational and social innovation. Laureate of the Digital Media Learning Trust Challenge (2015) awarded by the MacArthur Foundation, Serge contributed to the development of the Open Badge Passport and the publication of the Bologna Open Recognition Declaration (2016).Serge likes to emphasize that “when the sage points at the recognition [the moon], the fool looks at the badge [the finger]”.
You can find details of all previous and upcoming EntreComp Europe Events over on our Events page.
Register now for this upcoming EntreComp Europe Open Space Webinar Thursday 5 May 10:00 – 11:15 CEST Online in English & Spanish
The Spanish Chamber of Commerce and the EntreComp Europe Practice Pillar for Enterprise and Employability invite you to join the latest event in the Open Space webinar series.
Gathering Transnational Insights from EntreComp at Work brings together experts from Spain and Sweden to discuss how the European Entrepreneurial Competences Framework is being used in their countries.
We will be joined by Elisabet Klingenstierna and Miguel Ángel Espinar, as well as a number of project partners. Elisabet Klingenstierna is a Project Manager at the Alexanderson Institute, part of Campus Varberg at the Education and Labour Market Management Department of the Municipality of Varberg, Sweden. Currently, she leads projects focusing on enhancing students’ and employees’ entrepreneurial competences. Miguel Ángel Espinar Cerrejón is a Territorial Dynamiser in the Fernando de Los Ríos Consortium and leads the work of implementing the EntreComp framework in the Guadalinfo network both in Andalucía, Spain. Miguel Ángel has a degree in Business Administration and Management from the University of Granada, a Masters in Gamification and Transmedia Narrative by IEBS. He is a certified consultant in Creative Problem Solving by the Creative Education Foundation. Consultant in Design Thinking by the University of Salamanca.
You can find details of all previous and upcoming EntreComp Europe Events over on our Events page.
10:00 – 10:10 – Welcome and Presentation Name Surname – Spanish Chamber of Commerce
10:10 – 10:30 – Supporting the entrepreneurial capacity of employees Elisabet Klingenstierna – The Alexanderson Institute (in English)
10:30 – 10:50 – The experience of Guadalinfo in EntreComp at Work Miguel Ángel Espinar – Consorcio Fernando de los Ríos & Red Guadalinfo (in Spanish)
10:50 – 11:00 –Transnational insights about the European Entrepreneurship Framework Name Surname – Organisation
11:00 – 11:15 – Q&A Name Surname – Organisation
EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
Thank you for being part of the EntreComp Europe Community! We need your help. We want to understand how you and others use EntreComp in Europe. That way, we will be able to gather ideas that will help us improve it further.
Please, click on the following button to complete the survey.
Your responses will help us develop our work and map our progress in raising awareness and increasing the use of EntreComp as a common model for entrepreneurial learning.
The survey is available in the following languages: English, Turkish, Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian. If you have any questions, please contact us via entrecompeduonline@bantani.com
If you are not still in the EntreComp Europe Community but are interested in entrepreneurial learning and EntreComp, then this is the right place for you. It is a space dedicated to entrepreneurial learning where we can collaborate to explore how to introduce, develop and recognise entrepreneurial competences through youth work, education, employment, and enterprise.
When the EntreCompEdu partners came together to celebrate the successful end of the project with a lively graduation ceremony and policy event for the successful EntreCompEdu Teacher Pioneers in summer 2021, you might have thought that it was the end of the road for this innovative entrepreneurial project. If you missed out, EntreComp Europe is delighted to announce that the project will run again this Spring!
The EntreCompEdu online teacher training course will be delivered by EntreComp Europe, a project co-funded by the COSME programme of the European Union. This builds upon the work carried out by EntreCompEdu which was co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The course supports educators to design and deliver entrepreneurial education – with a 93% approval rating from teachers who completed the pilot phase. EntreComp Europe is delighted to announce the launch of third phase of the free online continuing professional development (CPD) course for educators at all levels who want to develop their entrepreneurial education skills. Registration is now open, with the course starting from 1st March.
Through the course, you will develop your entrepreneurial education skills, such as teaching through real-world contexts, creating an empowering learning environment and encouraging self-awareness. The course is self-paced, with all resources and materials available from day one, we expect the course to take 25 hours to complete. Experts in entrepreneurial education will be on hand through the online forum and through weekly online café sessions to help support and guide you through all five modules over the course of your 11-week learning journey. At the end of the course, educators will have the skills and competences to design and deliver entrepreneurial education in their own classrooms. Successful course-completers will also receive a digital badge and certificate to certify their work.
Over 700 learners from 52 countries engaged in the last two phases of the EntreCompEdu training across 7 languages: Flemish, Finnish, Italian, Macedonian, Spanish, Welsh and English. For this run, our mentors will be able to provide support in English and Spanish, however we encourage our educators to use resources in the language they feel most comfortable with.
The course is delivered through the LoopMe platform, where you will find discussion forums to talk to both your mentor and your peers, and to help you explore the how and what of entrepreneurial education for teaching. Participants will follow a personal and highly reflective journey, supported by videos, interactive exercises and practical tasks. Feedback provided from learners into the EntreCompEdu Practice Map will become a useful tool for other teachers to use around the world.
Don’t just take our word for it, here is what some of our EntreCompEdu Teacher Pioneers had to say about the course…
Register now to secure your place on the EntreCompEdu online training but completing the registration form, further details of how to access the LoopMe platform and course resources will be provided on 1st March. We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues and your network interested in entrepreneurial education, especially if you are already an EntreCompEdu Teacher Pioneer.
For more information about EntreComp Europe, please visit the project website. You can also follow EntreComp Europe on Twitter or join one of the Facebook Groups. EntreComp Europe is co-funded by the COSME Programme of the European Union.
For more information about EntreCompEdu, please visit the project website. You can also follow EntreCompEdu on Twitter or join the Facebook Group. EntreCompEdu was co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
‘Have you ever shouted at your child and then regretted it? Sometimes we behave in a way that we don’t like,’ says Kornélia Lohyňová, teacher of Management at Hotel Academy in Bratislava, Slovakia. All of that is connected to emotional intelligence. Even adults don’t understand their emotions in certain circumstances. So, what about young people?
Just before the winter break, participants from around Europe who attended the EntreCompEdu Café organised by EntreComp Europe had the pleasure of hearing Kornélia’s captivating experience and knowledge of social and emotional learning applied to the classroom.
Recognising your emotions
Kornélia believes it is essential to recognise our emotions, be aware of our thoughts, and understand how they are connected. That is, be self-aware of our feelings. We can decide on the matter; we can influence them by determining how long they last and how strong they are. And for that, setting goals and managing our stress levels are the best practices.
In school, students need to feel safe and confident. The first step is to build a space of trust where young people feel free to talk and share their thoughts. Kornélia shared a handful of activities that she organises to ensure that her students feel confident. Here are some ideas:
A quiz with simple questions to understand their mood and mind space
A reflective journal to write about their emotions, thoughts and reactions
Character strengths through personal analysis, finding their strength using a quiz
Once the students have identified their emotions, they will be fully aware of the moment, of their thoughts, feelings and actions. It is important to accept what is going on without judgment in the classroom. Kornélia highlights the importance of mindfulness.
EntreCompEdu Café is the perfect example of that, as Kornélia mentioned herself ‘We enjoy the moment while drinking coffee or tea and watching the Café Sessions’, we should appreciate it because we often ‘let good moments pass without attention, without even noticing it’. Mindfulness is easy to practice, and any activity can be turned into one. For example:
Breathing exercise using the hand to control inhaling and exhaling
Body scanning, a brief meditation to relax your body and mind
Mindful eating, bringing full attention to your mental state, feelings and physical sensations
The dangers of stress
There are some circumstances and moments that can impact our state of mind. Stress can be one of the biggest threats that can negatively impact us. At the same time, a certain amount can have a positive effect, and it can also be stimulative. But it is essential to know how to recognise it. In the classroom, says Kornélia, students can lose concentration if they are stressed, so it is important to work on activities that help children manage their feelings. In the following table, Kornélia shares some exercises she organises in her classroom.
We don’t feel empathy when we are stressed. And because empathy is the foundation for good communication, teamwork and strong leadership, it is essential to focus on it in the classroom. When students feel that they are in a safe environment and they can express whatever they are feeling, then we can start focusing on empathy. ‘I will ask them how they want to feel in the classroom,’ says Kornélia, and then she usually carries out some activities to make her students share their thoughts, such as a kindness game, reading stories of people from different backgrounds, debating, or working on a reflective journal.
One of Kornélia’s favourite practices is The Scarf Model, developed by David Rock. It stands for five key domains – Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness – that influence our behaviour in social situations. It is a model based on neuroscience research and one that she likes to apply in her classroom. “‘I teach my students to hold an invisible scarf’, and from there, explains Kornélia, ‘we work on learning how to solve problems, on how to communicate.’
Kornélia finished the Café session by sharing one of the challenges she faces in her classroom: applying non-violent communications. A method developed by Marshall B. Rosenberg which focuses on interacting with ourselves and others with compassion. ‘It is not easy to practice it, so I am taking a course to understand how to implement it’.
Through the activities and sharing active learning methods, students will become competent, and they will be able to make a difference. ‘Students need to feel that they are valuable members of a community’, and that is what is essential for Kornélia. Because that way, ‘they will express joy for learning, they will be happy to learn more, and they will develop as a person. And only that way they will make a difference in the world.’
How is social end emotional learning linked to entrepreneurship?
By enabling students to appreciate the emotional intelligence and focus on their social skills and awareness for those around them, teachers and educators can foster a growth mindset in their learners which instils self-confidence. The activities and skills they can develop shared by Kornélia during her talk link to various areas of the EntreComp framework such as: Self-awareness and self-efficacy, Motivation and perseverance, Working with others, Coping with uncertainty ambiguity and risk and Valuing ideas. You can discover more in depth about the framework by taking a look at EntreComp: A practical guide, developed by the EntreComp Europe project to help get results from active use and application of entrepreneurial competences.
If you missed EntreCompEdu Café with Kornélia, or would like to experience it again, check out the video below. You can also view and download the accompanying presentation. We hope you can join us soon for another EntreComp Europe event.
EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
On 28th September 2021, young graduates who completed their studies in 2019-20, and 2020-21 under the Jean Monnet Scholarship Programme were invited to meet in an online Brussels Study Visit. Organised by the Directorate of EU Affairs at Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, more than 300 final year students and recent graduates of European universities joined the virtual event, as such trips continue to be affected by the pandemic.
The study visit was a chance for young people to learn about the relationship between Turkey and the EU, and network with their peers.
Seval İskender, EU Affairs Manager at EntreComp Europe partner TOBB Brussels Representation was invited to speak at the conference. During a panel session, Seval introduced how to use EntreComp in career planning, a valuable resource for young people starting out in the job market, and the benefits this innovative framework can bring to Jean Monnet scholars as the embark on their professional careers whether in Turkey or Europe.
Congratulations to the organising team for a successful event, we hope that the participants took valuable advice for the experts. We invite those who attended, or any other interested in connecting with fellow EntreComp enthusiast to join the EntreComp Turkey community on Facebook, which is supported by TOBB and the Turkish National Agency. EntreComp Europe has also produced a practical guide to EntreComp, which is available in Turkish as ‘EntreComp: Pratik Bir Rehber’.
EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
You might already know EntreCompEdu, an Erasmus+ co-funded project which included the collaboration of EntreComp Europe partners Bantani Education and Materahub, along with others from Spain, the UK, Finland, Belgium, and Macedonia. EntreComp Europe is now excited to continue the core goal of the project of developing teachers’ entrepreneurial education skills by hosting monthly EntreCompEdu Café online sessions through the networks and partners in EntreComp Europe.
EntreComp Spain has been fundamental in developing these sessions, and will continue to hold monthly meetings in Spanish where an expert will share their practices, and give everyone the chance to give feedback, share ideas, and network. These meetings are intended for educators, but everyone is welcome to join, so long as you are eager to learn more about EntreComp.
EntreCompEdu Café in English with also run monthly from Autumn. Stay tuned to EntreComp Europe on social media for details. In a truly international spirit, we also invite you to discover EntreComp Arab Café, organised by a graduate of the EntreCompEdu online training course and bringing together Arab-speaking experts to discuss implementing EntreComp in their own communities.
You can catch up with any EntreCompEdu sessions that you missed, including those previously hosted by EntreCompEdu, in the playlists below.
We hope you will be able to join an upcoming EntreCompEdu café soon!
EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
Join us to draw on experiences from the EntreAssess and EntreCompEdu projects, introducing assessment literacy for entrepreneurial educators through an innovative diagnostic tool, with an aim to improve practice for educators seeking to develop their assessment literacy for entrepreneurial learning. Hazel Israel, Learning and Skills Advisor at Bantani Education will facilitate this workshop session.
You can find details of all previous and upcoming EntreComp Europe Events over on our Events page.
Assessment of, for and as learning– what’s the difference?
The EntreAssess diagnostic tool
Next steps
We hope to see you there!
EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
EntreComp Europe Autumn 2021 Newsletter available now
The EntreComp Europe Newsletter is here! The EntreComp partners have been busy since the first newsletter was shared last year, with lots of projects, events, and resources to share with our community. In this issue you can learn more about past events including VET training, digital badges, and the EntreCompEdu Café. As well as find out what our project partners have coming up next. Click the button below to read and download.
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EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
If you couldn’t join us for the EntreComp Europe Open Space Webinar “Experiences and Tools for Organizing Youth Summer Camps on Entrepreneurial Competences“, led by the EntreComp Europe Practice Pillar on Education and Youth Work, we have got some good news for you!
The latest EntreComp Europe Webinar is now available to watch online, we are also including the presentation slides to help you get the most from the event. Join colleagues from the Turkish National Agency and Junta de Extremadura, as well as youth workers from both Turkey and Spain to discuss interesting and innovative tools and ideas to help foster entrepreneurial competences through gamification and outdoor learning in a summer camp environment.
You can find details of all previous and upcoming EntreComp Europe Events over on our Events page.
12:00 – Welcome & Introduction Yasemin Koçak – Turkish National Agency Annabelle Favreau – Junta de Extremadura
12:10 – Experience Sharing on how to train youth workers on EntreComp Berat Ezel – Youth Worker/ Youth Work Office of Bodrum Development Association Aytaç Uzunlas – Youth Worker/ AvecaPro Training, R&D and Software
12:30 – Entrepreneurship Skills through Gamification Carmen Moreno Naranjo – Youth Worker Sara Salgado Ollera – Youth Worker The Network of Spaces for Youth Creation of the Youth Institute of Extremadura
12:45 – Work in Small Groups
13:15 – Wrap Up
13:25 – Conclusions and Next Steps Yasemin Koçak – Turkish National Agency
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We hope to see you again soon for another Open Space webinar!
EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
If you couldn’t join us for the from EntreComp Europe Open Space Webinar “From Experimental Approaches Teaching Entrepreneurial Skills to an Integral Approach Based on EntreComp” led by the EntreComp Europe Practice Pillar on Education and Youth Work, we have got some good news for you!
The latest EntreComp Europe Open Space Webinar is now available to watch online, we are also including the presentation slides to help you get the most from the event. Join Filip Burgelman, professor at the Thomas More University in Mechelen, Belgium, to discover more about the role of EntreComp in the official Flemish educational framework. The key topics of the webinar included the practical application of EntreComp in Burgelman’s Entrepreneurial Education programme.
14:00 – Welcome & Introduction Alexandra Yaghil – Bantani Education Amal Mahious – Service Public de Wallonie
14:10 – The EntreComp Europe Project Raquel Velasco Gómez – Cámara de Comercio de España Annabelle Favreau – DG Enterprise-Junta de Extremadura
14:25 – From Experimental Approaches Teaching Entrepreneurial Skills to an Integral Approach Based on EntreComp Filip Burgelman – Thomas More University
15:00 – Q & A Session
15:20 – Closing Remarks Alexandra Yaghil – Bantani Education Amal Mahious – Service Public de Wallonie
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We hope to see you again soon for another EntreComp Europe Open Space webinar!
EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
If you couldn’t join us for the peer-exchange assessment tools for entrepreneurship education webinar led by the EntreComp Europe Practice Pillar on Assessment and Digitalization, we have got some good news for you!
The latest EntreComp Europe Webinar is now available to watch online, we are also including the presentation slides to help you get the most from this event. Join Hazel Israel from Bantani and María Isabel Sánchez from the University of Extremadura to discover more about assessments tools for an entrepreneurship education.
The key topics of this peer-exchange included an overview of entrepreneurship education programs in the Extremadura region for juniors, teens, youth and experts, describing their competency framework and the measurement tools developed but also the presentation of progression models for assessment in entrepreneurship education with the aim of guiding teachers.
11:10 – Group Dynamics: Let’s Talk About Assessment Hazel Israel – Bantani Education
11:20 – Impact Tool for Entrepreneurship Education Programme María Isabel Sánchez – Universidad de Extremadura
11:40 – Q & A Session
11:50 – EntreAssess: a Tool for Teachers Hazel Israel – Bantani Education
12:10 – Q & A Session
12:20 – Group Dynamics: Feedback and Conclusion Elin McCallum – Bantani Education
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EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
The development of the entrepreneurial capacity of European citizens and organisations has been one of the key policy objectives for the EU and Member States for many years. Fostering and developing these skills from primary school promotes an entrepreneurial mindset and creates a foundation of skills that support both entrepreneurship and employability.
The project foresees the creation of three Intellectual Outputs.
The first is the FANTASIA Software (IO1). Under the guidance of expert partners, directly involved teachers will adapt their pupils’ favourite fairy tales and turn them into business-oriented stories: young pupils will, thus, have the chance to test and improve their entrepreneurial skills in their favourite heroes’ shoes. Before starting the research, teachers will attend a preliminary training in order to acquire the necessary competences and tools both at formal level, using the EntreComp framework, and a practical level.
Once the FANTASIA Software has been built, the second research step will be giving birth to IO2: a user manual with training modules to be uploaded on FANTASIA eLearning platform. The manual will help teachers interiorise the necessary skills to support pupils in acquiring awareness of entrepreneurial skills and develop them through the FANTASIA software.
Once both software and training contents are ready, it will be time to train “FANTASIA ambassadors”. For this, trained teachers from partner schools, together with trainers from the expert partners, will spread the message and train other non–directly involved teachers. This will multiply the impact of the project.
Finally, upon completion of the project’s pilot phase, an impact study of FANTASIA software use (IO3) will be launched. All products and learning outcomes of FANTASIA are highly sustainable and will produce long term benefits at EU level, given the breath of the partnership and the high transferability of the tangible outputs.
Ultimately, these are the chore characteristics of many European projects focused on entrepreneurship. Among them, EntreComp Europe explores how to introduce, develop and recognise entrepreneurial competences in a variety of domains throughout community building. One of its transferable and tangible outputs could be building communities of entrepreneurial schools.
Do you know about a project fostering entrepreneurial skills that you would like to champion? Why not take part in our case studies survey? You can also find detailed information about other entrepreneurial projects, including those currently employing the EntreComp framework, by taking a look at our first volume of Inspiring Practices from across Europe.
If you couldn’t join us for Women in Entrepreneurship: inspired by EntreComp Open Space webinar with Eva Fabry and led by the EntreComp Europe Practice Pillar on Enterprise and Employability, we have got some good news for you!
The latest EntreComp Europe Webinar is now available to watch online, we are also including the presentation slides to help you get the most from this event. Join Eva Fabry, Director of the European Centre for Women and Technology – ECWT, to have a unique insight into her work with EntreComp through the UWAWME project exploring how entrepreneurial competences support women in STEM. This even was organised by EntreComp Europe partner Spanish Chamber of Commerce with support by project coordinator Eurochambres.
Key topics of discussion during the event included: Supporting European Women in Technology – inspired by EntreComp’ – the case of uWaWMe, wider actions linked to entrepreneurial competences through EntreComp – the case of DIGA and WISE and rebuilding the economy for the post-COVID era. As well as a presentation of the successful PAEM (Business Support Programme for Women, Spain) programme, which supports women through entrepreneurial ventures.
10:00 – Welcome & Introduction Carmen Ayllón – Spanish Chamber of Commerce
10:15 – Rebuilding the Economy for the post-COVID Era
Supporting European women in technology – Inspired by EntreComp – the case of uWaWMe
Wider actions linked to entrepreneurial competences and EntreComp – DIGA and WISE
Rebuilding the economy for the post-COVID era
Eva Fabry – European Centre for Women and Technology
10:45 – PAEM (Business Support Programme for Women, Spain) Good Practices Marta Díaz – ESF Project Manager
11:00 – Q & A Session and Closing
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We hope to see you again soon for another Open Space webinar!
EntreCompEurope is dedicating to creating national and regional communities of practice across Europe, to help you, your projects and your community get the best out of entrepreneurship education across different sectors. If you would like to join one of our existing Collaborative Communities, please follow the links below, or head to our Community page. If you would like more information, or are interested in setting up your own national community, you can reach the EntreComp Europe team through our Contact page.
If you couldn’t join us for The EntreComp Playbook Open Space webinar with Lilian Weikert García and led by the EntreComp Europe Practice Pillar on Education and Youth Work, we have got some good news for you!
The latest EntreComp Europe Webinar is now available to watch online, we are also including the presentation slides and the Mural session to help you get the most from this event. Join Lilian Weikert García of Espacio RES and LaPlasita, co-author of The EntreComp Playbook to discover more about how to maximise opportunities to use the EntreComp framework within the education and youth work sectors.
The EntreComp Playbook is a webinar presented by the EntreComp Europe project, with Lilian Weikert García, co-author of the EntreComp Playbook which was published by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in 2020. It is an innovative collection of practices, tools and examples of how to activate EntreComp in the workplace. The 9 principles of EntreComp set out in the playbook have the potential to become a new methodology for building entrepreneurial skills – and can be applied equally by an individual planning their career or at system level to support an entire workforce. The publication aims to serve as a call to action for greater uptake of EntreComp and delivering on the goals of the European Skills Agenda. Also joining the webinar were project partners from Bantani Education, Conserjería de Economía, Ciencia y Agenda Digital (Junta de Extremadura), and the Turkish National Agency.
As part of the session, participants added their ideas to an interactive Mural, to answer three questions on the theme of enabling entrepreneurial education:
Who do you work with? Who are your “learners”?
Which methods, tools, or techniques do you use to create an entrepreneurial experience for your learners or beneficiaries?
What are the two most important EntreComp competences for you?
The activity served as an opportunity for interaction as well as showing a “heat map” of learner types, tools, and most important competences, and can help inspire you to learn more about where and how EntreComp is used.
Curated by Unioncamere Europa, the latest issue of Mosaico d’Europa newsletter focused on issues related to Eurochambres – the association of European Chambres of Commerce and Industry, and EntreComp Europe lead partner. The newsletter featured a profile of the EntreComp framework and EntreComp Europe national communities. Here’s what they said about the project (translated from the Italian):
In 2016, the European Commission developed ‘EntreComp’, the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework that identifies 15 competences in three key areas. Of all the European projects employing the framework, EntreComp Europe is particularly worth mentioning: the meta-project‘s first output was to map the European initiatives for the deployment of the tool identifying three main areas of work or domains and founding five national collaborative communities (Belgium (Wallonia), Italy, Moldova, Spain and Turkey). Addressed to professionals and organisations, each community explores, through a cross-fertilization rationale, how to promote the deployment of EntreComp. The communities focus on developing entrepreneurial skills in people’s daily lives across sectors: from youth work, education, employability to entrepreneurs and enterprises. Launched in 2020 and financed by COSME, this three-year project’s outputs deserve to be overseen. Besides the creation of new initiatives and financial channels, the enhancement of EntreComp national collaborative communities is expected to define assessment paths and certifications through open badges and to support the collaboration with employment agencies. Already forthcoming are two publications: the How-to toolkit and EntreComp Europe: A Practical Guide. As project coordinator, EUROCHAMBRES has already involved many chamber partners, namely the Turkish Chamber (TOBB), the Spanish Chamber, the Moldovan Chamber and CCIAA Basilicata.
The original article (Italian), of which this translation is a fragment, can be found below. Thank you to our project partner Materahub for sharing this news on the EntreComp Italy Collaborative Community group.
EntreComp Europe partner Bantani Education is proud to announce the launch of the ELYME online course for migrant entrepreneurs, Bantani have been closely involved in the development of this course along with other project partners from across Europe.
Are you an entrepreneur? Or looking to become one? Are you from a migrant background?
Are you looking for information, support, and inspiration to help your entrepreneurial journey?
Then the free ELYME Project online courses are for you!
Co-funded by the European Union, the ELYME project supports entrepreneurs from a migrant or refugee background. ELYME has created three free courses. These courses will allow you to develop or consolidate your project and find advice and support in Belgium. The aim is to support, train, and help all participants develop their entrepreneurial potential.
THE COURSES :
Pre-Start-up Development: to find and develop your idea, understand what it is to be an entrepreneur, get started in two courses available.
Start-up support: advice and expertise to strengthen your start-up, go further, one course available.
THE EXTRAS :
Mentoring : to develop your entrepreneurial skills and your self-confidence.
National hub: platform with online resources and support for all participants.
Free & Flexible – All courses are available whenever and wherever you want. No fixed hours, no limitations, no constraints. You can enter and exit modules, download material, at a pace that suits you. For smartphone, tablet or computer.
Classes are available in French or English via Google Classroom
EntreComp Europe partner Bantani Education shares details of the recently launched YOUCOOPE online training course.
Framed within the European Project YOUCOOPE, Bantani Education has developed, in collaboration with partners from five countries, a MOOC to train teachers in co-operative entrepreneurship and to encourage educational institutions to include the co-operative model in their curricula.
Tervuren, 8th February 2021. Bantani Education has launched a new online training on co-operative entrepreneurship framed within the European Project YOUCOOPE that, since last April, has been developing in collaboration with nine partners from Italy, Wales, Belgium, Spain and England.
Co-operative Entrepreneurship in Education: Tools and Resourcesis a short digital course oriented to secondary and university education professionals interested in understanding and introducing entrepreneurial education using the co-operative perspective. This Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) will provide them with knowledge, tools and didactic material to incorporate co-operative entrepreneurship concepts, skills and real-life experiences into their lessons.
Teachers interested in taking this digital training can sign up for free in the YOUCOOPE website and take the MOOC in English, Italian or Spanish, which will allow them to apply too for exclusive online workshops where they will be able to dive into co-operative entrepreneurial education, meet other educators with their same interests and learn new ways to introduce these methodologies in the classroom.
Both the online course, the downloadable digital content and the workshops for teachers of secondary and university level promoted by YOUCOOPE, take into account the EntreComp European Framework for the development of entrepreneurial skills, supported by the European Commission, that includes the so-considered essential softskills for the personal and professional future of youths.
Entrepreneurship and Cooperativism
The European Project YOUCOOPE: Co-operative Entrepreneurship for educators, led by the Santander International Entrepreneurship Center (CISE) from Spain in collaboration with Bantani Education and other nine institutions, will be focused on training the trainers so that they can motivate and boost entrepreneurship among European youths within the context of co-operative values as the tool to obtain the social and entrepreneurial skills that improve their employability.
The project is also looking to encourage educative institutions both at secondary and university level, to include the co-operative model in their curriculum and to boost it among young students and entrepreneurs all over Europe.
The resources generated during the project will also encourage educational institutions to look for collaboration with existing cooperatives at local level, so that young people can gain perspective on the importance and efficiency of this model, as well as facilitating the transition from the classroom to the working context and reinforce real-life experiences.
YOUCOOPE Project has abudget of over €230,000 and is co-financed by the European Commission. As well as Bantani Education (Belgium), the consortium is made up of another 8 institutions from five European countries: Co-operative College CI (United Kingdom), Ciudad Industrial del Valle del Nalón (Spain), Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy), European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Italy), Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione (Italy), Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social (Spain), University of Trento (Italy) y Awel Aman Tawe (Wales).
