Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 30/04/2012
Hosted and organised by the German Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the COPIE Policy Forum on ‘Entrepreneurship for All: Promoting inclusive growth in Europe through the European Structural F
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 30/01/2013
In January 2013, the European Commission has published the 'Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan' as part of its Europe2020 strategy. According to the Commission, the Action plan
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 18/11/2012
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 20/06/2012
The COPIE network has now finalised one of its key products, the COPIE Toolkit for Inclusive Entrepreneurship.
Submitted by Stephanie Koenen on 02/06/2012
As a result of COPIE's work over the past three years, the members of the COPIE network have published a COPIE Action Plan for Inclusive Entrepreneurship that is addressed to polic
Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 13/10/2011
Initiated by the European Commission, the European Training Foundation and the international research and consultancy agency ECORYS recently published a new report on 'Teacher Education for Entrepreneurship: Towards a Development Agenda'. The report provides a summary and evaluation of a pilot action on training teachers for entrepreneurship education funded by the EU Commission, DG Enterprise and DG Education and Culture.
Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 13/10/2011
Initiated by the European Commission, the European Training Foundation and the international research and consultancy agency ECORYS recently published a new report on 'Teacher Education for Entrepreneurship: Towards a Development Agenda'. The report provides a summary and evaluation of a pilot action on training teachers for entrepreneurship education funded by the EU Commission, DG Enterprise and DG Education and Culture.
Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 04/08/2011
Entrepreneurship education subgroup, Langreo. June 2011
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Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 11/07/2011
Brussels, October, 2010.
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Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 11/07/2011
LAB Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial Gijón - 12th ,13th May 2010.
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Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 11/07/2011
Valnalon, September 2009.
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Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 08/07/2011
Finland shows a sustained and committed support by the government and a good understanding of the need to engage a broad number of stakeholders in the development of a sound enterprise education policy.
Several enterprise education projects in all these areas are actually in operation with ESF funding. Current ESF Operational Programme allocates some €1.8 million for entrepreneurship education-related projects.
Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 08/07/2011
The Fresh Start project is a 24 month initiative co-funded by the European Commission, under the Directorate-General for Education and Culture.
The project aims to develop a specialized train-the-trainer course in order to provide European VET trainers with new skills that enable them to pass their training on developing young offenders’ entrepreneurial skills.
Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 08/07/2011
The High Level Symposium on 'Entrepreneurship Education: Teacher Education as critical success factor' took place in Budapest on 7th and 8th April. The event gathered 80 experts from all over Europe and debates focused around 5 main challenges:
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How to help primary and secondary teachers to become agents of change through initial teacher training
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Encouraging and enabling in-service teachers to engage in entrepreneurship education through Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 08/07/2011
Initiativkreis „Unternehmergeist in die Schulen“
(Committee of initiatives “Promoting entrepreneurial skills in schools”)
The committee has been initiated by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in 2007. At the moment it is formed by 11 initiatives who for years are actively engaged in this field. They meet for two working sessions in a year, present their activities at the “didacta” (The German fair on education and lifelong learning), organise information events and seminars.
Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 08/07/2011
The Finnish National Board of Education (FNBE) is the funding authority for the “Driving Change through Entrepreneurship Education and Competence” development programme. Finland is going at great lengths to strengthen the role of entrepreneurship education and to improve the competence of teaching staff in order to provide young people the skills and attitudes for coping with change and perceiving entrepreneurship as an attractive career option.
Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 08/07/2011
Recently published report by Joint Research Centre. The report focuses on areas where improvement is needed to enable more creative learning and innovative teaching: curricula, pedagogies and assesment, teacher training, ICT and digital media and educational culture and leadership. Most of the ideas contained in it do overlap to a great extent with the enterprise education agenda. A call for the need of more creative, innovative and enterprising learning ecosystems.
Submitted by 884bMccV93_k6627 on 16/06/2011
Many people across Europe are falling through a gap between entrepreneurship and employment policies. On the one hand, many of those responsible for economic and business development feel that entrepreneurship is primarily the reserve of the more educated and technologically advanced members of society. On the other hand, those concerned with social inclusion and employment policy often feel that the way to combat exclusion is through employment.
