CENTRES

CENTRES (Creative Entrepreneurship in Schools) project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

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Policy workshop in the Czech Republic

Author: Jana Vongreyová, NÚV 05/05/2014 Prague, Czech Republic

The policy issues were presented for a group of experienced teachers, representatives from the Ministry of education and the body of the Ministry, National Institute for Education and representatives from variety of NGO’s dealing with education, culture and CCI’s issues. The workshop was attended altogether by 17 participants, including the project team and was held in DOX - Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, 5th of May 2014. The first part of the workshop was dedicated to the dissemination of the project results, pilot activity outputs and project policy recommendations as well as presentation of the actual situation of delivering the national strategy for entrepreneurship education. Our partner from the Association for Creativity in Education also presented the experiences of implementing the program Creative partnerships into Czech educational environment. The second part of the workshop was a roundtable discussion about each particular CENTRES policy recommendation. Policy workshop program:

9:50 Registration

10:00 Welcome and introduction Jana Vongreyová, National Institute for Education Michal Kučerák, DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art

10:15 CENTRES: impact of the project Jana Vongreyová, National Institute for Education

10:35 Strategy for entrepreneurship education: development of the situation in the EU and in the Czech Republic Lukáš Hula, National Institute for Education

11:15 Creative partnerships in the Czech republic Marianna Sršňová, Association for Creativity in Education

11:45 Discussion

12:00 Coffee break

12:20 Roundtable discussion: a response to the CENTRES policy recommendations

13:45 Workshop wrap-up – conclusions and next steps

CENTRES (Creative Entrepreneurship in Schools) project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

www.centres-eu.org

With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

COUNTRY – Czech Republic

Policy recommendation

Key conclusions What next?

Horizontal and integrated

approaches to creative

entrepreneurship in schools

The cross-sectoral cooperation

is a very actual topic in the CR –

it still has big gaps. So we totally

agree with this

recommendation.

Rather than waiting for the system to

change, we should encourage schools to

be active and invite the ”strangers” from

outside world to present their point of

view. And vice versa – schools to go out

and meet people from different sectors.

Dissemination of the examples of good

practise – projects like CENTRES,

Creative Partnerships, etc.

An arts revival in our schools The reduction of arts and

creative teaching in curricula –

this is also the picture of Czech

educational system. Dr.

Pastorová from National

Institute for Education (in charge

of arts subjects in framework

educational programmes) sadly

commented that the need for

bringing back the arts subjects

into curricula is decreasing

every year.

The Ministry of Education is now in the

process of preparing the National

strategy for Smart Specialisation and

preparing a new operational programme

Education, Science and Research and

have a working group on incorporating

Entrepreneurship, Innovativeness and

Creativity into the programme. They are

cooperating with art professionals

especially in terms of supporting art

subjects and creative teaching methods.

Toward a creative

entrepreneurship curriculum

for schools

Total agreement with this

recommendation.

The Czech Republic is now in the phase

of preparing the National Strategy for

Smart Specialisation – Mrs. Vacková (in

charge of coordinating the working gorup

of experts to prepare this document)

attended our workshop and promised

she will introduce the CENTRES policy

recommendation in the ministry.

Pervasively digital creative

learning

Agreement with this

recommendation.

The new operational program for

Education, Science and Research will

encourage the professionals from

creative industries (especially games

sector) to develop digitally based

creative teaching methods.

CENTRES (Creative Entrepreneurship in Schools) project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

Dedicated creative

entrepreneurship

programmes

The Czech republic is now in

the process of preparing the

National Strategy for Smart

Specialization with special

emphasis on entrepreneurship,

innovations and creativity, as

well as negotiating the

possibility to prepare specialized

National Strategy for

Entrepreneurship Education.

The National Institute for

Education is hosting also a

Centre for fictive firms (mini-

companies), which is the central

body for organizing

entrepreneurship programs

across all regions.

Incorporating the CENTRES Policy

recommendations into prepared national

strategies – Strategy for Smart

Specialization and possibly the Strategy

for Entrepreneurship Education.

Disseminating the CENTRES Policy

recommendations.

Enabling programmes for

creative entrepreneurship

teaching

The teachers definitely need the

external support to teach

entrepreneurship. In the Czech

republic, the cooperation

between schools and

professionals from the world of

work (generally, not only in

creative sector) is very poor.

Several initiatives and projects are

nowadays dealing with the need of

cooperation between schools and the

outside world, but mostly generally, not

with the emphasis on entrepreneurship

(e.g. national systemic ESF funded

project ”POSPOLU”). Unfortunately, the

recently published Education Strategy for

the Czech Republic 2020 doesn’t

mention the need of entrepreneurial

education for the teachers at all. We

need to focus on dissemination of this

recommendation in the Ministry.

Coordinated programmes to

link education and business

Agreement. The project Czech Cultural and Creative

Industries Mapping (2011-2015) is

organising regular meatings on Mapping

the conditions of running creative

incubators in the Czech Republic,

Slovakia, Poland and Hungury – the

policy recommendation will be distributed

through the manager of the project, Mrs.

Žáková.