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Promoting Education for Entrepreneurship in Europe
Maud Skäringer
European Commission
Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General
Entrepreneurship Unit
European Commission
Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General
The Lisbon Agenda
• Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs:
Guideline no 15: Member States should reinforce entrepreneurship education
• Commission’s Annual Progress Report, January 2006:
Proposal: Add entrepreneurship to all national school curricula
Instruments
Open method of co-ordination
Tools: Expert groups, studies, dialogue with governments and stakeholders, benchmarking, monitoring of progress, organisation of events
Objectives:
• To promote the exchange and dissemination of good practice
• To steer policy action in the EU Member States
Some activities of the EC
• Education for Entrepreneurship, especially in primary and secondary schools. Expert Reports and Guide on Good Practice
• Student Mini-companies in Secondary Education. Expert Report and audiovisual material
• Commission’s Communication “Fostering entrepreneurial mindsets through education and learning”, February 2006
Ongoing project:
• Entrepreneurship in Higher Education, especially in non-business studies
Higher Education project
Components
• Study: To provide a comprehensive picture of the state of the teaching of entrepreneurship in European higher education
• Group of Experts: To integrate the results of the survey with more “qualitative” information, identify key issues for promotion of entrepreneurship in higher education, draw conclusions for policy making.
Timing
• Study: Spring 2007
• Final report of the expert group: Autumn 2007
Higher Education project
The project will:
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in European higher education institutions as regards providing entrepreneurship training
• Investigate pedagogical methodologies in use
• Highlight factors of success and main obstacles
• Promote the exchange of experiences
• Benchmark public policies in this area
• Draw main conclusions and recommendations for policy action
Commission Communication
Scope:
• Fostering entrepreneurial mindsets among young people from primary school to university education
Objectives:
• Set the scene, and show good practice
• Identify key issues to be addressed
• Suggest measures
• Trigger action
Approach
• Bring together evidence based on projects carried out by Commission and Member States
• Highlight that good practice can be found in Europe – the challenge lies in spreading existing positive examples
• Support Member States in developing a more systematic strategy
Proposed action – General
• Reinforce cooperation between different ministries and departments
• Develop a global strategy on entrepreneurship education
• Include entrepreneurship in national curriculum
• Support schools and encourage take-up of programmes
• Raise the awareness of heads of schools and provide training to teachers
• Favour links between schools and businesses
• Promote the use of student mini-companies
Proposed action – Higher Education
• Integrate entrepreneurship across different subjects and courses, notably scientific and technical studies
• Public authorities’ support especially needed to provide high-level training for teachers and to develop networks to share good practice
• Encourage teacher mobility between university and the business world
• Encourage involvement of business people in teaching
Next steps
Member States to take the necessary action and report on progress (Lisbon Reports)
Commission to support Member States through:
• Coordination, dissemination of good practice, events (e.g. Conference in Oslo, October 2006)
• Specific projects (e.g. on Higher Education)
• Support to concrete initiatives (e.g. new Community programme for Lifelong Learning, ESF)
Information
For more information:
[email protected]@ec.europa.eu
Internet:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/entrepreneurship/support_measures/entrepreneurship/support_measures/training_education/index.htmtraining_education/index.htm