The Youth Start Entrepreneurial Challenges Program

1. Empowering each child
with the
Youth Start
Entrepreneurial Challenges Program

2. A holistic learning program
to support the development
of
young people‘s potentials

3. Youth Start Entrepreneurial Challenges Program
Let’s develop and
implement your
ideas!
entrepreneurial
thinking and acting
Don’t be afraid to try out new
things, also encourage others!
personal development: focus on
empathy, teamwork and
self-confidence
Use your
ideas to
help other
people!
responsibility
for
myself, others
and the
environment

4. Definition of social and
emotional leaning
• children and adults understand
and manage emotions,
• set and achieve positive goals,
• feel and show empathy for
others,
• establish and maintain positive
relationships,
• and make responsible
decisions.
Youth Start mindfulness program
Be A YES Challenge
Empathy Challenge
Some steps to the finish line
Thinking things over: self assessment,
learning objectives, tasks for reflection
and discussion
Expert Challenge
My Community Challenge

5. social and emotional leaning
• to understand and manage
emotions
• to set and achieve positive goals
• to feel and show empathy for
others
• to establish and maintain positive
relationships
• to make responsible decisions
 Youth Start mindfulness program

6. Youth Start mindfulness program mind & body
Mind & Body all levels (A1-B2)
www.youthstart.eu

7. The Flower of
Mindfulness
What, if
everybody did
that?

8. Short videos based on the wheel of mindfulness

9. social and emotional leaning
• to understand and manage
emotions
• to set and achieve positive goals
• to feel and show empathy for others
• to establish and maintain positive
relationships
 Be A YES Challenge

10. Be A YES Challenge
Based on the findings of
Positive Psychology
Flourish:
A Visionary New
Understanding of
Happiness and Well-being
by Martin Seligman, 2011
„Positive Psychology is the scientific study of what
enables individuals and communities to thrive“
Martin E.P. Seligman
Barbara Fredrickson
Ed Diener
Sonja Lyubomirsky
Chris Petersen
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

11. We often focus on the problems in our lives, on what annoys us
about ourselves, about others or about our circumstances.
It is much more rare that we concentrate on the things that are going
really well or that make us happy.
The “Be A YES” Challenge is intended to encourage
you to explore your own strengths so that you can
use them consciously – and possibly in new ways.
Be A YES Challenge level A1, A2 and B1

12. Strengths Treasure Hunt
P Positive Emotions
E Engagement
R Relationship
M Meaning
A Accomplishment
Student manual Teacher guide
A1 Be A YES Challenge
A2 Be A YES Challenge
B1 Be A YES Challenge: My Character Strengths

13. social and emotional leaning
• to understand and manage
emotions
• to feel and show empathy for
others
• to establish and maintain positive
relationships
 Empathy Challenge

14. My feelings, your feelings – giraffe language
A1, A2 + B1
www.youthstart.eu
A1 Empathy Challenge
A2 Empathy Challenge
Understanding and to be understood – giraffe bag
principles of Nonviolent Communication, developed by
Marshall B. Rosenberg

15. Empathy Map
A1, A2 + B1
www.youthstart.eu
B1 Empathy Challenge
Think and Feel
See
Say
Hear
Negative Positive

16. social and emotional leaning
• to set and achieve positive goals
• to make responsible decisions
 Some steps to the finish line:
Thinking things over: self
assessment, learning objectives,
tasks for reflection and discussion

17. 7 steps to the finish line
last step: thinking things over
o self-assessment:
o questionnaire (open questions)
o How well can you do that already?
o reach your personal goal an a few steps …

18. social and emotional leaning
• to understand and manage
emotions
• to set and achieve positive goals
• to feel and show empathy for
others
• to establish and maintain positive
relationships
• to make responsible decisions
 Expert Challenge

19. A1-B1 Expert
Challenge:
Learn how to learn
in a holistic manner

20. 21st Century Skills
Learning and Innovation Skills
“The 4Cs”
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Communication
• Collaboration

21. social and emotional leaning
• to set and achieve positive goals
• to make responsible decisions
 My Community Challenge

22. A1, A2 + B1
www.youthstart.eu
My Community Challenge cards play in English, to be ordered at
www.ifte.at/entrepreneur
A1: Solving problems together
WILMA inventor‘s workshop:
We Inspire Learningy by MAking

24. evidence based

25. “The Youth Start Entrepreneurial Challenges programme was tested in a practical
trial in four countries:
• Austria, Luxembourg, Portugal and Slovenia
• 107 secondary schools (B1/B2) and 84 primary schools (A2) were included in
the evaluation.
• A phase-in randomisation design was applied, and the participating students
were followed longitudinally and surveyed multiple times.
• Three rounds of data collection were performed, including in total 18,363
students (13,081 on secondary level and 5,281 on primary level).”
Youth Start Entrepreneurial Challenges Field Trial Report

26. “The strength of the Youth Start Entrepreneurial Challenges Programme design is its
flexibility, which allows it to be implemented in many different topics by many
different teachers, in combination with its structured teaching and education
material.
The results of this practical trial demonstrate that a programme broadly embedded in
the curricula can foster entrepreneurship effectively with limited resources.”
Youth Start Entrepreneurial Challenges Field Trial Report

27. What are the added benefits of the programme and the pertaining
teaching materials for the school, teachers and pupils on primary level?
pupils:
 greater self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect and self-efficacy (= believing in
one’s own ideas)
 fostering of teamwork, creativity and network thinking
 improvements in classroom community and social interaction through...
 empathetic communications,
 mindful awareness of oneself, others and the environment and
 conflict management
 increased vocabulary (also in students whose first language is not German)
 better understanding of economic topics
Qualitative research on the programme – results:

28. teachers
 new appreciation of students: greater confidence in the children’s competences,
observation of the children’s commitment and joy in independent work (in teams or
individually)
 new ideas and excellent material for organising one’s own lessons
 challenges enhance interdisciplinary knowledge transfer
 new approach for teaching economic topics (child-oriented and age-appropriate)
 enhanced collaboration between teachers
 empathetic communications in the classroom (with even positive effects for the
children’s parents)
 conscious reflection of one’s own communicative behaviour
Qualitative research on the programme – results:

29. www.youthstart.eu
A1 – primary level: grade 1 to apr. grade 4
A2 – lower secondary level: grade 5 to apr. grade 8
B1, B2 – upper secondary level
German
Spanish
Bulgarian
French
Slovenian
Portuguese

30. www.youthstart.eu
revision of all challenges on level A1 and A2
A1: 8 revised challenges online in English, partly with explanatory videos
 additional videos by end of november 2019
 another revised challenges in English by spring 2020
A2: no revised challenge translated to English yet

31. www.youthstart.eu
8 Kurzfilme zur Achtsamkeit
23 short videos to activate & concentrate

32. Unterrichtsmaterialien
www.ifte.at/entrepreneur

33. Mag. Eva Jambor
program management
Empowering each child/ Empowering youth
eva.jambor@ifte.at