Presentation slides of the paper 'Simulation for Entrepreneurship - Entre4Future: An Ongoing Project' from the Internacional Conference 'Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM2015)' in Porto, Portugal. Date: 8 oct 2015

1. Simulation for Entrepreneurship – ENTRE4FUTURE:
An Ongoing European Project
Paulino Silva, Anabela Mesquita e Rui Bertuzi
TEEM
2015
Technological Ecosystems for
Enhancing Multiculturality
08.out.2015
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2. § Introduction
§ Objectives and Partners
§ Expected Results
§ Business Simulation at ISCAP
§ Ongoing Activities
§ Conclusion
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3. § Entrepreneurship refers to an individual's ability to put his ideas
into practice. It includes creativity, sense of initiative, innovation
and risk-taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage
projects in order to achieve objectives.
§ Entrepreneurship competences include transversal skills and
attitudes as well as more specialised knowledge and business
skills.
Source: European Commission. (2015). Entrepreneurship Education: A road to success - A
compilation of evidence on the impact of entrepreneurship education strategies and measures.
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4. §The overall objective is…
exchange of professional practice on issues related to textbooks,
curricula and teaching methodologies for the simulation
as an effective method to entrepreneurship education of young people,
innovative technologies used in the simulation business transfer
between the two levels of schooling - high school VET and university.
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5. §Short-term: Staff active in education and training
§ Upgrading skills of teachers through new learning and teaching
methods, by development and delivery of new teaching materials and
methods, especially using the method " training firm" (high school) or
"virtual company" (university);
§Long-term - Students, school pupils (17-20 age)
§ Development of entrepreneurial skills, information technology (IT) and
foreign languages to students.
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7. §P1 Economic College "Dimitrie Cantemir" Suceava
[Romania - Coordinator];
§P2 International Business College Hetzendorf [Austria];
§P3 Vet school La Salle-La Seu d,Urgell-Catalonia [Spain];
§P4 ISCAP - The School of Accounting and Administration
of Porto [Portugal];
§P5 Business Academy South West (EASV) - National
Innovation Centre [Denmark];
§P6 Paphos Chamber of Commerce and Industry [Cyprus];
§P7 Chamber of Commerce and Industry Suceava
[Romania].
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8. § 3 High Schools:
§ Dimitrie Cantemir" Economic College
§ International Business College Hetzendorf - Vienna
§ Vetschool La Salle - La Seud`Urgell - Catalonia
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9. § 2 Higher Education Institutions in Management area:
§ Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto - ISCAP
§ Business Academy South West (EASV)- National Innovation Center ESBJERG
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10. § 2 Chambers of Commerce
§ Paphos Chamber of Commerce and Industry
§ Chamber of Commerce and Industry Suceava
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11. § Reports;
§ Project Website – www.entre4future.com;
§ Curricula “Learning Office”;
§ Good Practice Guide “Simulation for Entrepreneurship”.
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12. §Contents of website:
§General information;
§Meetings and reports of the project;
§Dissemination events;
§Multimedia gallery;
§Links and contacts.
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17. § General aims:
§ Employability
§ Study skills
§ Comprehensive entrepreneurship education
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18. § Employability:
§ Key qualification
§ Commercial knowledge
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19. § Study skills:
§ Accounting
§ Business Administration
§ Office Management
§ Languages
§ Law
§ Other competences
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20. § Comprehensive entrepreneurship
education:
§ Entrepreneurship skils
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21. § Substitute the internship required to access the Chamber of
Chartered Accountants;
§ BS courses are providing in a demanding, complex,
universal and technologically advanced business
environment, without the risk inherent to the real business
world;
§ Students form companies of 3 or 4 elements who, through
business management information systems, establish
commercial and institutional relations with other several
organizations.
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22. § The students’ main objective is to manage their companies
at every level, to complete an available plan of costs and
profits;
§ Going beyond traditional assessment methods, student
evaluation relies on available technology and teachers’
dedication;
§ Students are assessed both individually and as a group in a
continuous mode.
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26. Past:
§ 1st Meeting in November 2014 - Esbjerg, Denmark
§ 2nd Meeting in March 2015 - Viena, Austria
Future:
§ 3nd Meeting in October 19-20, 2015 - ISCAP - Porto,
Portugal
§ 4th Meeting in Romania next year
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October 19-20, 2015 we will have the meeting in Porto - Portugal!

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Thank you very much!
Paulino Silva | ISCAP
paulino@iscap.ipp.pt
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