The CENTRES project aims to promote creative entrepreneurship in schools across Europe. It is a multi-country project funded by the European Commission and eight organizations. The project creates a forum for sharing best practices in entrepreneurship education for the creative industries. It also aims to develop students' creativity and entrepreneurship skills through partnerships with creative businesses. By the end of the project, it hopes to increase the number of schools undertaking entrepreneurial activities, and the number of students pursuing careers in the creative industries.

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CREATIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SCHOOLS
LINQ Conference, Rome 16-17 May 2013

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WHAT IS CENTRES?
CENTRES is a multi-country project co-funded by
the European Commission, British Council and
eight organisations across Europe
• CENTRES project is delivered in Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Poland, Slovenia
and the UK.
• The project creates a European forum for issues relating
to entrepreneurship education specific to the creative
industries and for sharing innovation and best
practice in this area.

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WHAT DOES CENTRES AIM TO ACHIEVE?
• To promote models and methodology that can be used by schools and other
organisations delivering entrepreneurship education to develop pupils’ creativity
and entrepreneurship skills
• To promote ways in which to engage creative entrepreneurs / businesses
productively with schools as well as engage school-age students in practical
business opportunities in the creative industries

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PROJECT OUTCOMES
• online knowledge bank of materials, models, tools,
methodologies and guidelines that can be used by
teachers and organisations working with this type of
skills development in schools
• Europe-wide online community of interest centred
on the knowledge bank
• recommendations to policy-makers on ways to
mainstream innovative practices in entrepreneurship
education

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By the end of the project the network will have:
• increased the number of schools undertaking
entrepreneurial activity in partnership with creative
businesses
• increased the creativity and entrepreneurship skills of
young people
• increased the number of young people who choose a
career within the creative industries
• made a significant contribution to the development of
policy in entrepreneurship education

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CENTRES UP-TO-DATE RESULTS
Pilot activities:
• Pupils 500 -> Schools 40 -> Teachers 300 ->Wider audience (via FB/website/
YouTube) – over 40,000
• Key policy makers: Polish Minister of Education, Prime Minister of Slovenia,
Senior Policy Makers in Estonia

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CENTRES International Conferences
• Kraków, Poland – September 2012
• London, UK – January 2013
• Brussels, Belgium – April/May 2014
• 2 State of Innovation Raports on creative entrepreneurship in schools
http://www.centres-eu.org/knowledge-bank/state-of-innovation-report-no-2

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THANK YOU!
Contact:
Ewa Ayton, Head, Arts & Culture, British Council Poland
Email: ewa.ayton@britishcouncil.pl