by Project Partner Pablo MoralesChamber of Commerce of Seville

ENSPIRE EU

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WHAT IS ENSPIRE EU ABOUT? Project aim, The consortium, Background, Challenges, Solutions, Opportunities, Target groups & Activities.

SHALL WE INSPIRE TOGETHER?Please share your ideas, thoughts and experiences with us!

BACKGROUND“The desire for Europeans to be self-employed is decreasing. -Especially in the EU15.” Eurobarometer Entrepreneurship Survey 2007 and 2009

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ENSPIRE EUExpenses for improvement of entrepreneurial framework e.g:Small Business ActMore FinanceFree Access to Counseling

Entrepreneurial mindset: Willingness to Become Entrepreneur

PROJECT AIMEnspire EU aims to boost the Enprepreneurial mindset by:

IDENTIFYING and SHOWCASING the BEST PRACTICES

of how we inspire Europeans to become entrepreneurs

EXCHANGE THESE BEST PRACTICES

i.e. transfer and adopt successful initiatives from around Europe

PROVIDING POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

for better policy effectuation within entrepreneurship

THE CONSORTIUM

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 GROUPSThe 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 Good Practices

+ 200 identified practices

ENSPIRE EU ACTIVITIES I JAN.2010-DEC.2012

MAPPING:

IDENTIFICATION OF EXISTING ENTREPRENEURIAL AWARENESS

INITIATIVES IN ALL PARTNER REGIONS IN ORDER TO FORM A

JOINT EUROPEAN STUDY

TARGET GROUP: 3 DIS’ES

EXCHANGE of EXPERIENCES:

INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGE CAMPS WHERE BEST

PRACTICES WITHIN ENTREPRENEURIAL INSPIRATION ARE

SHOWCASED AND SHARED.

DEVELOPMENT of ENSPIRE EU NETWORK FOR

INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGE

ENSPIRE EU ACTIVITIES II JAN.2010-DEC.2012

POLICY EFFECTUATION:

MAKE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS AT REGIONAL LEVEL AND

ASSIST IN POLICY EFFECTUATION

PILOTS:

RUN PILOT TEST OF THE BEST ENTREPRENEURIAL

AWARENESS INITIATIVES FOR THE 3 DIFFERENT TARGET

GROUPS WITHIN THE DIFFERENT PARTNER REGIONS.

DEVELOPMENT OF ENSPIRE TOOL KIT FOR BUSINESS

AGENCIES

Good practices identified related to entrepreneurial education

1. EDISON (Denmark)

2. ENTREPRENEURIAL HALLAND (Sweden)

3. ENTRIS (Sweden)

4. GROWTH (Sweden)

1. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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”.

3. 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.

4. 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.

Thank you for your attention:LET’S ENSPIRE TOGETHER!

More information at www.enspire.euFind film, Best practice report, Partner information and much more!