Fostering Entrepreneurial Spiritin education

= Europe’s largest provider of education programmes for entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy.

Works in 31,380 schools, with the help of 116,687 teachers and 164,363 business volunteers to empower 3,454,750 million students across 40 countries.

• Belgium: – (Flanders): VLAJO– Wallonia: Jeunes Entreprises

• Czech Republic: Junior Achievement Czech Republic• Finland: JA Finland• France: Entreprendre pour apprendre• Germany: Junior Germany / Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft

Köln• Poland: Junior Achievement Foundation Poland• United Kingdom: Young Enterprise United Kingdom

JA Europe Network: Partners in ECMT+ countries

Aim: inspire and prepare young peopleto succeed in a global economy

Innovation Cluster for Entrepreneurship Education (ICEE): preformed major multi-country research on impact of entrepreneurship educationhttps://youtu.be/yghQXLdvPE0

Their aim

• participating in mini-companies:– Have higher school motivation, – go to school happier and more often (even when they are

sick)– Improve their overall performance.

• Entrepreneurship education:– Has positive impact on learning in other subjects– supports development of all key competences for lifelong

learning.• Higher exposure is correlated with better results

Impact on students

• gain a closer, more respectful relationship with the students• appreciate the pedagogical advantages of this way of learning. • BUT:

– high-quality teacher training is needed – Support from the school leadership and the possibility to

interact and reflect on their practice

Impact on teachers

• Making entrepreneurship education a priority at the national level and creating win-win solutions to strengthen the cooperation between the education system and the business sector helps in raising awareness, highlighting the value of entrepreneurship education and supporting its uptake.

• Cooperation between education system and labour market needs to be strengthened. More support and acknowledgement from education ministries on the value of entrepreneurship education would push it forward faster in Europe.

Support from government and business sector

• Happy about the opportunity their children have to gain transversal skills and learn in a more practical and non-theoretical way.

• If properly informed about the learning process that entrepreneurship education promotes, parents can act as an important driver for entrepreneurship education in school.

• Final report: published in January 2018

Parents’ perspective

Aim: Bringing the entrepreneurialspirit in education

In Flanders: VLAJO (Flemish young enterprises)

Why = The PurposeHow = The ProcessWhat = The Result

WHY?

WHY?

• The world is changing at a high speed

WHY?

WHY?

WHY?

WHY?

= Being self-managing

+ creativity

• Vlajo offers learning-by-doing programs - from the nursery class to the university - to encourage entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial spirit among young people.

• Vlajo stands for cooperation and acts as a bridge builder between education, business and government. They do this through the Pedagogical Plan - which stands for : Dreaming, Doing, Daring and Perseverance - a learning line based on the 4 pillars of entrepreneurship.

HOW?

HOW?

WHAT?

Talent internship

My Machine

Innovation camps

SBP: IO Bee

Flat App

Tiding

Tooth Pearl

Uono

My Add On

• Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand: Techniques de commercialisation:

• Be part of a company to understand a company

• Students have a combination of classes and working in small enterprises in school.

• Students apply for 1 of 10 departments• Work there for almost 2 days per week.

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